St. Nicholas Chapel (Baden)
The Sankt-Nikolaus-Kapelle is a chapel in Baden , Switzerland . It stands on the ridge of the Schlossberg and was the court chapel of Stein Castle in the Middle Ages .
It forms the farthest end of the Stein ruins and, together with the watchtower, is the only building that survived the razing of the castle in 1415. It is mentioned for the first time in 1346, but it probably already existed at the time of King Rudolf von Habsburg . Duke Leopold IV provided them with his own benefices in 1398 . The chaplains were independent of the city authorities and directly subordinate to the dukes or their bailiffs. After the castle, which had meanwhile been converted into a fortress, was destroyed again in 1712, the chapel was restored and received its current appearance.
The chapel is a simple, 11 m long and 5.5 m wide cube with a gable roof and a bell carrier over the west wall. The interior has a barrel vault and on the east side an early Baroque altar made in 1716 with a picture of Nikolaus von Myra , the church patron. The older of the two bells (cast in 1652) comes from the Capuchin monastery that was closed in 1841, the younger one was made in 1935 by the H. Rüetschi company in Aarau . To the east of the chapel, the remains of the old city wall lead down to the city tower .
Today the chapel is owned by the community of Baden and, together with the Stein ruins, is a listed building .
literature
- Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume VI, District of Baden I. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel 1976, ISBN 3-7643-0782-X , p. 173-177 .
- Josef Tremp: Baden chapels. Roman Catholic parish Baden-Ennetbaden, Baden 2006.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '23.4 " N , 8 ° 18' 22.7" E ; CH1903: six hundred and sixty-five thousand four hundred ten / 258407