St. Sigismund Chapel (Oberwittighausen)
The Roman Catholic St. Sigismund Chapel in Oberwittighausen , a district of the Wittighausen community in the Main-Tauber district , was built in the 12th century.
history
The St. Sigismund Chapel was built in the 12th century and is one of the oldest sacred buildings in the Main-Tauber district. Today the chapel belongs to the pastoral care unit Grünsfeld-Wittighausen, which is assigned to the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
Church building and equipment
The St. Sigismund Chapel was built in the Romanesque style . The building is similar to the St. Achiatus Chapel in Grünsfeldhausen and the Michaelskapelle in Gaurettersheim , which no longer exist today, an octagonal central building .
The hammer throw legend
Due to the very similar structure and the almost identical distances between the three chapels, the "hammer throw legend" arose in the vernacular. According to this, a giant is said to be the builder of these chapels and to have thrown a hammer after the completion of the first. He is said to have built the next chapel at the site where it was found.
Web links
- Photographs of patriotic architectural monuments: Oberwittighausen, Tauberbischofsheim District Office: Sigismund Chapel; Volume 9 on the website deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
- Sigismund Chapel in Oberwittighausen on the website taubertal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Taubertal.de .: Sigismund Chapel . Online at www.taubertal.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- ^ Taubertal.de: The secret of the chapel . Online at www.taubertal.de. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral conception of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . (PDF, 1.3 MB). Resolution of July 21, 2011. Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ^ Community Wittighausen: Sights in Wittighausen . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
Parish churches of the pastoral care unit Grünsfeld-Wittighausen: Church of All Saints (Unterwittighausen) with the St. Agidius branch (Oberwittighausen) | St. Martin (Poppenhausen) | St. Regiswindis (Vilchband)
Other churches, chapels and stations of the cross: Old Chapel (Vilchband) | Dorfmühlenkapelle (Unterwittighausen) | Hofkapelle (Hof Lilach) | Kreuzkapelle (Hof Lilach) | Way of the Cross (Unterwittighausen) to the forest chapel (Unterwittighausen) | New chapel (Vilchband) | Neumühlenkapelle (Unterwittighausen) | St. Sigismund Chapel (Oberwittighausen)
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 33.6 " N , 9 ° 50 ′ 53.7" E