Sheep Church
The Sheep Church is the ruins of a chapel above Lißberg in the northern Wetterau in the Wetterau district , at the foot of the Vogelsberg in Hesse .
history
The church was built on a resting place of the funeral procession of Boniface of Mainz to his preferred resting place Fulda . It seems unlikely that it was built before the 16th century. It existed as a church building only for a short time. In the 19th century, the ruins were heavily overgrown with trees and bushes. In the years 2002 to 2003 excavations as part of the Bonifatius Route project did not reveal any further findings. In 2004 the ruin was restored. The building was 7.10 × 4.20 meters in size and had no apse . The sheep church was first mentioned in 1578, when it had long been in ruins.
The sheep church is located directly on the Bonifatius Route and on Via Antiqua or Rechten Nidderstrasse .
literature
- The Bonifatius Route from Mainz to Fulda . Ed .: Verein Bonifatiusroute e. V.
- Rudolf, Pia; Vogel, Christian: The sheep church near Lißberg . State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, 2004
- Wolfgang Hamberger u. a .: The Bonifatiusweg. Discover the roots of Europe; the special cultural journey from the West to modern Europe. DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7701-6326-5 .
- Christian Vogel: Via antiqua, Bonifatius' last way. The Bonifatius overpasses from Mainz to Fulda and their route . Self-published, Niddatal 2004, ISBN 3-9809805-0-2 .
Sheep Church, exterior view
Reconstruction of the sheep church above Lißberg on the information board of the Bonifatius route by Dieter Wolf in 2004
Web links
- History of the Sheep Church ( Memento from April 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 39.36 " N , 9 ° 4 ′ 46.2" E