Painful chapel
The painful chapel is a Roman Catholic church building in Munich . As part of the St. Anton Capuchin Monastery, it is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments .
location
The painful chapel is located in the east wing of the four-winged monastery building of the Capuchin Monastery on the corner of Kapuzinerstraße / Isartalstraße in the Munich district of Isarvorstadt . Access is from Isartalstraße through a passage in the monastery wall.
history
Around 1670 a small open field chapel was built on the path leading to Thalkirchen at this location. The altarpiece in the chapel showed Jesus at the scourge column . The chapel owes its name to this memory of the suffering of Jesus. Numerous pilgrimages to the miraculous image soon took place.
In 1702/03 Wolfgang Zwerger probably built a round building in place of the old chapel. In 1705 the octagonal domed building was inaugurated on the. Following the rotunda, the buildings for the newly founded Capuchin monastery were erected between 1846 and 1856. A long house with high, romanised arched windows and a choir room were added to the rotunda and connected to it by wall openings. The nave was separated from the chapel during the renovation of the monastery between 2006 and 2008. Today the television studio of the Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp) is housed in the former nave, which took over a large part of the former monastery buildings in 2008.
description
The approximately ten meter diameter round building of the Sorrowful Chapel is now fully integrated into the east wing of the monastery building, but protrudes over the roof. The flat conical roof of the chapel carries a lantern with a baroque spire.
Inside, the white walls are divided into eight segments by flat pilaster strips that continue in the dome spanning the round building. In each of the eight segments of the dome there is a window, the lantern rising above has four windows.
Three arches lead from the round room to the choir room. In front of the central arch is an old stone made of white stone and behind it a Pietà from the mid-19th century. Openwork wooden panels behind the arches serve to visually delimit the chapel and the choir. Thanks to them and the fact that the three arches that originally led to the nave were bricked up again, the original character of the chapel as a circular room comes into its own.
On the west wall opposite the entrance hangs a larger than life crucifix . A representation of the Risen One hangs above the entrance on the east wall. On the north wall in front of the walled-up central arch is a figure of Jesus at the scourge column.
meaning
The painful chapel is also the house chapel of the local Capuchins and is used for weekday services in the parish of St. Anton.
literature
- Denis A. Chevalley, Timm Weski: State Capital Munich - Southwest (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-584-5 , p. 341 .
Web links
- Katharina Zeckau: The Capuchins. In: The ifp in the Isarvorstadt. Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp), accessed on October 14, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Painful Chapel ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '27 " N , 11 ° 33' 48.8" E