St. Dionysius (Kleinbrach)

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St. Dionysius , looking southeast

The church desolation of St. Dionysius is located in a loop of the Franconian Saale near Kleinbrach in Lower Franconia , a district of the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Bad Kissingen district .

history

At the site of St. Dionysius-Klösterchens probably which was monastery Brachau (presumably. Of fallow Au probably a little), Benedictine ( monasteriolum ), which for the year 823 in connection with the donation of a Wigbrahts its salt springs at the monastery of Fulda has and may have been involved in salt production. There is evidence of a church of St. Dionysius from the 14th century, which had become desolate at the beginning or end of the 16th century for reasons that could no longer be reconstructed. The last dated message about the existence of the church comes from the year 1503. Anno 1556 reports on an "Instrumentum about the indulgence of St. Dionysii - brother to St. Dionysia". There is evidence of a ruin at this point for the year 1845, which showed traces of a chapel within its walls. The church of St. Dionysius had two previous buildings: a wooden church was built at the time it was first mentioned in the 8th century; In the Middle Ages, a stone church was built with an apse .

In November 1936, two citizens of Kleinbrach, the bath attendant Alfred Kirchner and the cook Hugo Olraun, carried out private excavations at the Dionysius monastery and found a skeleton whose skull they took away. The police, informed by the mayor of Kleinbrach, Egon Schlereth, switched on the Würzburg branch of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Alfred Kirchner stated that he would have wanted to be faster than the community of Kleinbrach, which, as he learned, had planned excavations at the monastery. He and Hugo Olraun would have wanted to report the possible discovery of an underground corridor or vault system, about which District School Council Nikola had reported in the Heimattreue . Max von Freeden, responsible clerk at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, recommended that the skull be buried; this took place in January 1937 in the Bad Kissinger Kapellenfriedhof .

Archaeological excavations by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments from 1989 to 1991 proved the existence of a larger cemetery through the discovery of 100 skeletons; Furthermore, the foundation walls of the church could be exposed. The reconstructed floor plan is open to the public.

legend

According to a legend written down by the Großenbrach teacher Ebert in 1936 , the spirits of the monastery monks are said to have guarded the treasure of the monastery and punished anyone who disturbed their peace at night. One day in the spinning room, despite warnings from her friends, a girl made a bet that she would go to the monastery at night and bring stove tiles from the monastery as proof. For her protection she carried a pair of scissors, a ball of thread and a black cat. According to the legend, suddenly a voice called out that without the scissors, the thread and the cat, her neck would have been "broken". She hurried home and was able to show her friends the tiles, but her condition subsequently deteriorated, so that she died that same year.

literature

  • Josef Wabra: Stories and legends of the Kissinger area , regional history series for northern Lower Franconia, issue 3, published by the Rhön / Saale / Sitz Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen, 1965, p. 19f.
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 160 f .
  • Werner Eberth : Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 3. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2011
  • Michael Mott : The early medieval “Fulda” monastery Brachau / 823 donated to the Fulda monastery as Brachau monastery , in: “Buchenblätter” Fuldaer Zeitung , 87th year, no. 13, July 2, 2014, p. 49f; No. 14, July 15, 2014, pp. 54f.

Web links

Commons : St. Dionysius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dronke EFJ, Codex diploma. Fuldensis 410; W. Störmer: Foundation of Franconia in the Carolingian period. In: Handbook of Bavarian History. Volume 1, Teilband 3, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , p. 242
  2. ↑ Denis A. Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: Monuments in Bavaria - City of Bad Kissingen , Edition Lipp (1998), p. 160
  3. ↑ "The Dionysus monastery Kleinbrach" - "... once a spiritual center" (www.rhoenline.de)
  4. ^ Michael Mott: The early medieval "Fulda" monastery Brachau, beech leaves number 9/10, 2014, pages 46–51 (online edition). Fuldaer Zeitung from September 9, 2014
  5. ↑ Johannes Wilhelm Rost: The old ruin between Groß- and Kleinbrach , in: Arch. Des Histor. Association (AFUA), Volume 9, 1846, Würzburg, p. 146ff.
  6. ^ Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 3. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2011, pp. 312-314
  7. ^ Josef Wabra: Stories and legends of the Kissinger area , regional history series for northern Lower Franconia, issue 3, published by the Rhön / Saale / Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen, 1965, p. 19f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 34.2 "  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 20.8"  E