St. Michael (Comburg)
The St. Michael Chapel on the Comburg is a cultural monument. It is located on the upper floor of the inner monastery gate of Groß-Comburg .
The core of the chapel comes from the first phase of expansion of the monastery around 1125. It is thus an originally Romanesque building, but it also bears traces of redesigns from the Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque periods . The fortifications were expanded in the second half of the 16th century under the provost Erasmus Neustetter. At that time the inner gate was created by creating a chamber passage under the Michael's Chapel. This passage was completed, as evidenced by a coat of arms with the year, in 1586.
Used as the dean's house chapel during the monastery period, the inside of the building was decorated with ornamental paintings in Renaissance shapes and with figures of saints on consoles, including one of St. Michael. The portraits of saints probably date from Erasmus Neustetter's time. Neustetter had direct access from his house to the chapel. The door was later bricked up.
The chapel with the barrel vault and the steep gables in the Gothic style has a round arched window on the east side. The window glazing consists of round, lead-framed panes. The stone frames of the windows show profiles from the Baroque period. The building has two turrets and an arcade on the east side. The round columns of the arcade have cube capitals.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.zum.de
- ↑ katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
- ↑ katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
- ↑ katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
- ↑ lehrerfortbildung-bw.de
- ^ 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. 123 ( archive.org ).
- ↑ katalog.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '59.6 " N , 9 ° 45' 0.8" E