St. Otmar (Mühlingen)

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St. Otmar on the Madachhof (2017)

St. Otmar is a Catholic chapel in the hamlet of Madachhof in the municipality of Mühlingen in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg in Germany .

The small rectangular building with five-sided choir and roof skylights with its equipment to § 12 of the Monument Protection Act as worthy of protection monument registered.

history

Presumably there was a chapel on the Madachhof, mentioned at the latest in 1191, as early as the 15th century. In the old files of the Salem Monastery there is an entry that in 1514 a new chapel, founded on old foundations and donated by Abbot Jodok II Necker , was consecrated : “ Capella ibidem prima ad a. usque 1514 in suo esse perstitit, tum vero de novo a fundamentis per dominum Jodocum II exstructa fuit. "

Chapel and House (2017)

In 1577, after a renovation, the chapel was re-consecrated, and on May 12, 1718, three altars were consecrated in the chapel by the Konstanz Auxiliary Bishop Conrad Ferdinand : the side altars in honor of the holy martyrs John and Paulus , the holy Otmar of St. Gallen and Stephen and the high altar in honor of Saints Heinrich and Oswald . Since then, the year 1718 has been considered the construction date of today's chapel.

After the Salem monastery was dissolved in 1802, the Madachhof and the chapel came to the rule of Langenstein in 1826 and to Count Douglas zu Langenstein in 1872.

The chapel was also damaged by the severe earthquake on November 16, 1911. Count Robert Douglas paid the repair costs and a year later donated a new high altar painting of the Madonna.

The interior was renovated in 1928, and from 1992 to 1996 the chapel was extensively renovated both inside and out.

The chapel, in which Protestant services were also held in the 1950s, and its furnishings are now privately owned.

Patronage

When the chapel was consecrated to Saint Otmar (* around 689; † November 16, 759) is not documented, it is mentioned for the first time in 1718 with the consecration of the side altar. The chapel's patronage is celebrated on November 18th.

The Otmarspatrozinium may indicate the large amount of land that the monastery of St. Gall once had in this area.

Furnishing

High altar

The altarpiece of the high altar from the second half of the 18th century and designed in the Louis XIV style shows a Madonna, which is a copy of a painting by the Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618–1682).

Right side altar

St. Otmar

In the right side altar is the sculpture of St. Otmar. It shows the founder and first abbot of the St. Gallen monastery with a goblet and wine barrel. The wine barrel has its background in the legend about the transfer of his body ten years after his death, in which a storm would not have harmed the boat and the pilgrim's bottle of wine did not empty. According to another legend, Otmar's keg was never empty no matter how much he shared with the poor or drank from it himself.
A small figure of St. Scholastica stands in the altar structure .

Left side altar

In the left side altar is a late Gothic Pietà, probably made around 1510 for the new chapel in 1514 . At the top of the altar there is a small figure of St. Benedict .

Sculptures

On the nave walls are sculptures of St. Bernard  - his feast day is July 15th - and of St. Mauritius  - his feast day is September 22nd.

Holy masses

In 1834 twelve holy masses were held in the chapel , in 1907 there were 16 masses in the chapel, in 1914 there were again twelve masses, five of them in honor of the chapel's founder. In 1921 around six masses were read. In 1940, during the Second World War , a mass was held once a month after about four to six weeks and in 1950.

Today there is an evening mass every first Tuesday of the month in the St. Otmar Chapel.

Pilgrimage

The chapel is considered an old place of pilgrimage : the believers from the surrounding area came to take off the diapers of their sick children at the altar and ask for healing; this practice is documented until 1908.

Others

  • Every year at the end of May / beginning of June a procession of lights moves from Mainwangen to the St. Otmar Chapel on the Madachhof.

literature

  • Wolfgang Kramer (Ed.): Mühlingen, a common local history of the Madachdörfer Gallmannsweil, Mainwangen, Mühlingen, Schwackenreute and Zoznegg . Hegau Library Band 135 . MARKORPLAN Agency & Publishing, Singen (Hohentwiel) 2007, ISBN 978-3-933356-48-2 .
  • Alfred Eble: The Madachhof, once a Salemian grangie in "Hegau - magazine for history, folklore and natural history of the area between the Rhine, Danube and Lake Constance" . tape 53 , pages 13 to 52. 'Jan Thorbecke Verlag GmbH & Co. KG' and 'Selbstverlag des Hegau-Geschichtsverein Singen e. V. ', Sigmaringen and Singen (Hohentwiel) 1997.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg : Directory of immovable architectural and art monuments and the objects to be examined by the community of Mühlingen; February 9, 2000
  2. ^ Franz Hofmann: The churches and chapels - architectural and art history in " Mühlingen, a common local history of the Madachdörfer Gallmannsweil, Mainwangen, Mühlingen, Schwackenreute and Zoznegg ", pages 123 to 126
  3. ↑ St. Otmar was the first abbot of the St. Gallen monastery.
  4. ^ Ottmar Fuchs:  Otmar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1336-1339.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  5. ↑ Michael Ott:  St. Othmar (Audomar) . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 11, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1911.
  6. ^ The St. Otmar Chapel on the side of the Maldachhof; Retrieved July 20, 2016

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '55.9 "  N , 9 ° 1' 56"  E