Sebastian Chapel (Ladenburg)

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Sebastian Chapel

The Sebastian Chapel is a former church in Ladenburg in the Rhein-Neckar district in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg . Originally the court chapel of the bishops of Worms , it was a Roman Catholic parish church after the Reformation . After 1875 it was mainly used by the old Catholic community. It was profaned at the end of 2017 .

history

Sebastian Chapel and Gallus Church 1645 ( Matthäus Merian )

The chapel was first mentioned in 1266 when a court hearing was held at the St. Sebastian cemetery. Parts of the building are Carolingian . The tower received its current roof in the second half of the 13th century. The choir was built under Bishop Reinhard von Sickingen in the second half of the 15th century. In 1565, Elector Friedrich III. Destroyed all pictorial representations in the Sebastian Chapel and St. Gallus Church and only allowed Reformed worship in the Gallus Church, the old Ladenburg parish church. Since then, the Sebastian Chapel has been the Catholic parish church of Ladenburg. This remained almost the same until Bishop Ludwig Anton had the St. Gallus Church occupied by the military in 1693.

In 1736/37 the Sebastian Chapel was renovated and given a baroque interior. On May 5, 1737, the chapel was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop von Merle . In 1874 the interior of the chapel was restored and then it was used by the Protestant community until 1878, while the new Evangelical City Church was being built. Almost at the same time, the first old Catholic association was founded in Ladenburg in 1874. After the state recognition, the old Catholic community was assigned the Sebastian Chapel, where it celebrated service for the first time on November 5, 1876.

In the following decades the building threatened to deteriorate. The Roman Catholic Church did not invest in a building that it was not using, the Old Catholic Church did not invest because it was not the owner. Only with the strengthening of the ecumenical movement was a financial solution found, in which both churches, the city, the district and the country participated, and between 1960 and 1982 the chapel was restored. The rededication took place on October 12, 1980 in the presence of the old Catholic bishop Josef Brinkhues , once pastor in Heidelberg and Ladenburg, with an ecumenical service. The old Catholic parish of Heidelberg-Ladenburg celebrated its services alternately in the Sebastian Chapel and the Heidelberg Church of the Redeemer , until the Sebastian Chapel had to be closed in 2006 due to structural damage. It has not been used since then. The Ladenburg parish council decided on February 1, 2017 that St. Sebastian should be profaned. According to an agreement with the city of Ladenburg, the chapel is to be renovated in two stages and then become the property of the city.

description

View from the northwest

The Sebastian Chapel stands on the site of the old bishop's court in the southwest of the old town of Ladenburg. The laterally arranged tower and the associated connecting structure are among the oldest parts of the building. The oriental-looking roof was put on in the 13th century. Apotropaic grimaces are attached to the tower and the Romanesque blind arcades on the connecting structure . Both parts of the building are made of small ashlar masonry , while the rest of the chapel is plastered. On the other side of the chapel there is a vestibule that was built in 1474. On the south side there are two grave slabs from around 1500. To the east of the chapel is the Gothic long choir with a 5/8 end . The choir roof has had a baroque roof turret since 1737 .

Cronberg Children (from the Thesaurus Palatinus by Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg )

The keystone of the star vault in the late Gothic choir is adorned with the coat of arms of Bishop Reinhard von Sickingen . The vaulted fields are artistically painted with floral motifs. The magnificent high altar and the two side altars date from 1737. Wall paintings in the nave depict several saints and apostles. They date from the 15th and 16th centuries and were restored by Valentin Feuerstein in the 20th century . There are several grave slabs in the Sebastian Chapel. The plate by Bishop Ludwig Anton near the altar comes from the more recent past . His grave was suspected for a long time in Düsseldorf's Andreas Church , until Berndmark Heukemes found it in the Sebastian Chapel in the 20th century . In the choir on the left is the epitaph of three Cronberg children who died in the year they were born . The grave slab of the last Auxiliary Bishop of Worms Stephan Alexander Würdtwein is in the nave .

organ

The organ was built in 1790 by the Heidelberg court organ builder Andreas Krämer for the St. Gallus Church. It was transferred to the Sebastian Chapel in 1865. In 1982 it was restored by Orgelbau Vleugels . The instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I positive C – d 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Salizional 8th'
3. Music principal 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
5. Flood traverse 2 ′
II Hauptwerk C – d 3
6th Principal 8th'
7th Viol di Gamba 8th'
8th. Big dumped 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. Smalled up 4 ′
11. Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Octave 2 ′
13. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Cornett V 8th'
15th Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – g 0
16. Sub bass 16 ′
17th Octave bass 8th'
18th Trombone bass 16 ′

On the occasion of the Ladenburg Organ Summer (2000–2014), the organ of St. Sebastian sounded regularly at the walking concert, during which the audience in Ladenburg's old town then “walked” to the two organs of the Protestant town church and St. Gallus. As part of the handover of the chapel to the city of Ladenburg, the Catholic parish sold the organ to the Heidelberg Christ Congregation for € 15,000 and dismantled it in February 2018.

literature

Web links

Commons : Sebastianskapelle (Ladenburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Sturm: Ladenburg takes over Sebastianskapelle. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. February 3, 2017, accessed April 6, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Information on the organ
  3. ^ Klaus Backes: The organ of the Sebastian Chapel will sound in Heidelberg in the future. In: Mannheimer Morgen. January 18, 2018, accessed January 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Backes: Had ten years to think about it. In: Mannheimer Morgen. January 27, 2018, accessed January 28, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 15.3 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 31.4"  E