Seven Pain Chapel (Wollbach, Burkardroth)

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The Seven Pain Chapel in Wollbach

The Seven Pain Chapel is a chapel in Wollbach , a district of Burkardroth in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .

The Seven Sorrows Chapel represents the Seven Sorrows of Mary . It is one of the architectural monuments of Burkardroth and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-117-127 .

history

The Seven Pain Chapel
Foundation inscription on the 7th station

The Seven Pain Chapel was donated in 1887 by the retired police sergeant Johann Michael May (born March 6, 1822; died August 6, 1902). The chapel was built with the help of several helpers at the location of an already existing crucifixion group. The crucifixion group was donated by the bachelor Johannes Pfülb in 1763, according to the inscription written as a chronostichon .

According to oral tradition, May was supported by the Italian bricklayer Luigi Facini, who had already helped build the new school in Wollbach and married Susanne May, a relative of Johann Michael May.

On October 17, 1889, May signed a contract with the sculptor Adam Gehring to build the seven stations; a price of 280 marks was agreed for each station . The stations, made of yellow sandstone , were designed as half-open consecration chapels with classical and baroque style elements. The Hausener Jakob Bissinger provided the complex with paintings, which have been whitewashed in the meantime. The building was started on November 16, 1889 by the Kgl. District Office and approved on December 6, 1889 by the Episcopal Ordinariate.

First emptied and managed May that the offertory donated contrary to existing provisions money itself; after May's death, this was taken over by the Burkardroth church administration.

After May's death, the structural condition of the chapel deteriorated due to neglect. A renovation initiated by Pastor Ludwig Kolb, however, helped; eight heirs of Johann Michael May donated 1,000 marks from the estate of the founder. As part of the renovation, the altar was enlarged and an altar stone with a relic was installed. In the year of the renovation, a Pietà made by Heinz Schiestl for the chapel was purchased for 507 marks . On June 11, 1915, the renovated chapel was blessed with detailed reports from the “ Saale-Zeitung ”.

On August 15th each year, pilgrimages were held, which alternated between the Wollbacher Sieben-Pain-Kapelle and the Zahlbacher Kreuzkapelle ; from 1920 these pilgrimages were replaced by pilgrimages to Maria Ehrenberg .

Until 1960, the Burkardroth church administration was responsible for maintaining the chapel; on January 1, 1960, responsibility went to Mayor Franz Grom and eight other Wollbach citizens. In 1968 the chapel was renovated, which in this context also received an electricity connection. Since the municipal reform , the chapel has been owned by the Burkardroth market.

On December 20, 1987, a break-in was discovered in the chapel, during which the Pietà and the bronze chandelier had been stolen. The citizens of Wollbach came up with the plan to create donations for an equivalent replacement; the production of an identical Pietà would have cost 10,000 to 15,000 D-Marks . The original Pietà reappeared in February 1988 when local pastor Anton Reinhard was informed by a colleague from Rotenburg an der Fulda that he had received a Pietà from a person who was not involved in the break-in, which allegedly came from the Bad Bocklet area , but where no pietà was missed. After appropriate evidence, local pastor Anton Reinhard and local assistant Emil Höchemer received the Pietà, whose halo had meanwhile been removed; a piece of the base had also been sawed off. The State Criminal Police Office in Munich examined the Pietà for traces that could have led to the thief of the Pietà; the result of these investigations is unknown. The Pietà was renovated and put back in the chapel with a new halo in the summer of 1988; at the same time the chapel was secured by heavy iron bars.

literature

  • Josef Wabra: Guide through the Kissinger Rhön. Bad Kissingen 1968, p. 288, footnote 5.
  • Josef Wabra: The landmarks in the Bad Kissingen district. Volume 2, self-published by the Bad Kissingen district, Bad Kissingen 1996, pp. 280–282.

Web links

Commons : Seven-Pain-Chapel (Wollbach, Burkardroth)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Wabra: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 2, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen pp. 275f.
  2. ^ Alfred Saam: Wollbacher Pieta had disappeared for months. In: inFranken.de. December 19, 2012, accessed March 10, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 47.68 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 18.76 ″  E