Seven Sorrows Chapel (Gelsenkirchen)
The Seven Pain Chapel is a Marien - Chapel in the Westerholter Wald ( Löchterheide ) in Gelsenkirchen-Buer . The small church, built in 1723 and renovated in 1948, with the patronage of the Sorrows of Mary belongs to the parish of St. Mary's Assumption within the parish of St. Urbanus . It is still used today for processions and services in the open air and for private devotion. Since 2008 there has been the Via Matris (“Mother's Path of Sorrows”) station path next to the chapel with bronze plaques by H. Schilcher (Oberammergau).
history
The chapel was donated in 1723 by Countess Henrika von Aschebroick zu Schönebeck from Westerholt , perhaps in memory of her husband, who died in 1707 at the age of 50. In Buer, however, it is said that the chapel reflects the guilty conscience of the people of Westerholt because of the beheading of Anna Spiekermann in 1706, while in Westerholt there is a reference to a bloody dispute over grazing rights between the Westerholt and Berge estates in 1564.
At the same time as the chapel was built, Henrika von Aschebroick ordered an annual hail procession for the village and its members, which is still held on the second Sunday after Corpus Christi . After the turmoil of the Seven Years' War , an annual thanksgiving procession was added.
In 1940 the chapel was badly damaged by falling trees in a hurricane. Members of the Kolping Family restored them in 1948. Since then it has repeatedly been the scene of larger liturgical celebrations, for example with the bishops Franz Hengsbach (1973), Heinrich Tenhumberg (1974), Reinhard Lettmann (1985), Hubert Luthe (1999), Felix Genn (2004) and Franz-Josef Overbeck (2010) ).
In the 1990s, moisture damage made a thorough renovation necessary. A development association founded in 1998 carried out the work. On September 16, 2001 the Prior General of the Servite Order Hubert M. Moons rededicated the chapel. The inauguration ceremony for the station path on September 14, 2008 was headed by Servite Provincial Gottfried M. Wolff .
chapel
The chapel is a simple, white plastered, square building with bevelled corners on the altar side and a tiled pyramid roof . Since the last renovation, it has had a new altar, a wood-carved Pietà and remarkable modern stained glass windows.
Station path
The Via Matris station path comprises seven granite steles over a length of 70 meters . The bronze reliefs made by Schilcher show the seven sorrows of Mary for her son.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish and friends' association name Helmut Schilcher, Oberammergau, as the creator of the reliefs. It is possible, however, that it is Hermann Schilcher .
- ^ History
- ↑ Heinz Wener on urbanus-buer.de; Wener considers the centuries-old dispute between Buer and Westerholt over Löchterheide to be the foundation of the atonement chapel .
- ↑ urbanus-buer.de
- ↑ kirche-ge.de
- ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ urbanus-buer.de
Web links
- Network presence of the chapel (friends' association)
- Information from the parish
- Illustrated leaflet (PDF; 7.4 MB) on the occasion of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture (kirchevorort.de)
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 6.4 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 18.2" E