Severinskapelle (Denzlingen)

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Severinskapelle ruins (2017)
Interior during the excavations in July 2013
The year 1497 on the apex

The Severinskapelle is the ruin of a late medieval pilgrimage church on the Mauracher Berg near Denzlingen in the Emmendingen district in Baden-Württemberg . The year 1497 is assumed to be the year it was built.

history

Pilgrimage church

After the pilgrimages in the margraviate of Baden-Durlach ended in 1556 during the Reformation , the pilgrimage church was left to decay.

Inside the chapel there was a relief plate made of red sandstone , which shows St. Severin as a bishop and which was brought to the Catholic St. James Church in the 20th century .

South of the ruins is the private cemetery of the Sonntag family, which was laid out in 1912 and owned the Mauracher Hof at the foot of the Mauracher Berg from 1714 to 1970.

Today the Severinskapelle is used for ecumenical services.

From 2011 to 2016 excavations were carried out in the area of ​​the chapel by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg under the direction of Benjamin Hamm, which provided new knowledge about the previous buildings.

Previous buildings

Before the pilgrimage church was built, there were two churches, one with a semicircular and one with a rectangular apse , in the same place . They each functioned as a parish church for the surrounding area, in particular for the Glottertal and Elztal . During the excavations, graves were found that belonged to the cemetery of the respective parish church. The skeletons come almost exclusively from the 12th to 15th centuries. A wall on the southern slope that cannot be directly connected to the church building could have served as a retaining wall against landslides.

According to legend, the namesake of Simonswald or the Simonswälder Valley , Simon vom Walde, regularly rode with his entourage to the Mauracher Berg and attended the church service.

Older building traces of a mine house speak for an early medieval manor, i.e. a profane use. The pit house can be dated to the 9th century through a ceramic find. In the 10th century, the name of the Muron square falls , which Emperor Otto the Great withdrew from Count Guntram in 952 and donated to Konrad von Konstanz , the Bishop of Konstanz , in 962 and which can presumably be identified with the estate on the Mauracher Berg. Whether the complex was an early medieval castle, which later became the location of a parish church, cannot be proven (see Denzlingen Castle ).

Since 2019, paving stones have marked the course of the underground walls.

literature

  • Bertram Jenisch, Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg: Ground penetrating radar investigations at the Severin chapel on the Mauracher Berg near Denzlingen , in: Archäologische Ausgrabungen in Baden-Württemberg 2010, pp. 265–269 ( digitized version ).
  • Dieter Geuenich : Curtis in Muron cum ecclesia. On the location and importance of the church in Maurach (Denzlingen) in the Middle Ages , in: Niklot Krohn (ed.): Grosso Modo: Sources and finds from late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Festschrift for Gerhard Fingerlin. Weinheim 2012, pp. 215-224.
  • Sebastian Brather : Church, cemetery and castle (?) On the Mauracher Berg near Denzlingen , in; Archäologische Nachrichten aus Baden , Issue 86/87, 2013, pp. 59–66 ( digitized version from the University of Freiburg ).

Web links

Commons : St. Severinskapelle (Denzlingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Volume 6, Tübingen 1904, pp. 127–128 ( digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library ).
  2. ↑ The "Roman" Mauracher Hof. spurensuchen-denzlingen.de, accessed on July 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ecumenical Whitsun celebration in the ruins of St. Severin ( Memento from June 15, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung, June 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bringing light into the darkness of history ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung, August 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Three churches on the Mauracher Berg ( Memento from June 13, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: From house to house, June 13, 2019.
  6. ^ Excavations at St. Severin Chapel: New Finds, New Theses ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung, September 3, 2014.
  7. ↑ Key to the Past ( Memento from March 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung, August 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ Now the floor remains closed ( Memento from June 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung, June 28, 2017.
  9. ^ Entry on Mauracher Berg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  10. ↑ s. Immediately
  11. ↑ On the Mauracher Berg in Denzlingen, paving stones now mark historic buildings ( memento from June 18, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Badische Zeitung, June 4, 2019.

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 35.3 "  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 1.2"  E