St. Erhard (Comburg)

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Hexagonal chapel on the Comburg.

The St. Erhard Chapel is a sacred building first mentioned in 1324 on the Comburg . The Romanesque building, dated around 1230, is two-storey and has a hexagonal floor plan. The core structure, which is also closed by a hexagonal tent roof with small arched windows, is provided with a walkway that is opened to the outside in graceful arched arcades and structured at the corners by pilaster strips .

The interior of the core structure has a vault supported by a central column with bulging ribs extending from this, which are supported at the inner corners of the outer walls by consoles. The chapel room is decorated with a painting from the 16th century. On the altar wall, Saint Erhard is depicted next to the bishops Kilian , Nikolaus and Erasmus . The other walls show paintings depicting a couple of evangelists and the prophets and apostles, according to Daniel, John the Elder. T., Peter and Paul. The costume of the saints shows a mixture with the fashion of the 16th century. The frescoes were largely destroyed during restoration attempts in the 1940s.

As a function of the small building, it is assumed that it served to conceal the level transition between two height levels within the castle. In addition, a Holy Sepulcher Chapel could also be considered, as it often stood next to a church in the Middle Ages.

After being painted in the 16th century under Provost Erasmus Neustetter, the chapel was used as the monastery archive of Großcomburg.

literature

  • Eugen Gradmann : The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall . Paul Neff Verlag, Esslingen a. N. 1907, OCLC 31518382 , pp. 125-128 ( archive.org ).
  • Karl Seith, Max Miller (ed.): Historic sites VI - Baden-Württemberg. 6th volume, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1965, p. 614 f.
  • Darius Lenz: Castles in Baden-Württemberg. The geographical-topographical expansion between the 7th and 15th centuries. VER Verlag, Karlsruhe 2014, ISBN 978-3-944718-01-9 .

Web links

Commons : St. Erhard (Comburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gradmann: The art and antiquity monuments of the city and the Oberamt Schwäbisch-Hall. 1907, p. 128.
  2. ↑ a b c The hexagonal chapel at www.kloster-grosscomburg.de, accessed on May 2, 2016

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 1.1 ″  E