St. Rupertus (Obernsees)

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St. Rupert's Chapel
St. Rupert's Chapel, interior

St. Rupertus (colloquially: the Käpala ) is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Jakob (Obernsees) named after Bishop Rupert of Salzburg (650–718 ) .

history

The chapel was founded near a spring that was visited in pagan times because of its supposed healing powers. After Christianization, St. Rupurt became a place of pilgrimage.

According to a parish description for Obernsee from 1811, the chapel is said to have been built by Bamberg Bishop Rupert († 1102) in 1080 , making it one of the oldest church buildings in this area. This assumption is based on a year that is said to have been placed above the choir arch, but has been whitewashed since the early 19th century. According to other information, the year is said to have been 1480. If the latter is the case, the supposed reconstruction in 1479 would have been the construction of this chapel in the late Gothic style, which is equipped with three altars.

In 1710, under Margrave Christian Ernst, the nave was extended and the church was given an onion dome. There was originally a cemetery around the chapel, which the cemetery wall still bears witness to. Under Pastor Thiermann, the chapel was thoroughly renovated in the 1920s and decorated with paintings. Another renovation took place in 1987. Since 2010 there has been a statue of St. Rupert in the chapel, which was made by Fritz Föttinger .

Today the chapel is used simultaneously by the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Jakob (Obernsees) and the Roman Catholic parish of St. Salvator ( Schönfeld ).

literature

  • Karl Dill: The Rupertus Chapel near Obernsees . In: Hollfelder Blätter . No. 5 . Hollfeld 1980, p. 34-39 .
  • August Gebeßler : City and district of Bayreuth (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 6 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB  451450914 , p. 131-132 .
  • Klaus Guth: St. Rupert near Obernsees . In: Lively folk culture . Meisenbach, Bamberg 1985.
  • Erwin Herrmann: St. Rupert near Obernsees. A former spring pilgrimage in the Bayreuth region . In: Lively folk culture . Bamberg 1980, p. 189-194 .
  • Georg Paul Hönn : St. Ruperti . In: Lexicon Topographicum of the Franconian Craises . Johann Georg Lochner, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1747, p. 290 ( digitized version ).
  • Ingrid Huther-Thor: The former pilgrimage church of St. Rupertus near Obernsees . In: Hood - Housewife - Halloween; living cultural studies . Frankenschwelle publishing house, Hildburghausen 1996, ISBN 3-86180-057-8 .
  • Peter Poscharsky: The churches of Franconian Switzerland. 4th improved edition. Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-7896-0099-7 , pp. 313-316.
  • Christian Schimpf: If you know Busbach, you know the world . 2nd Edition. Berlin 2015, p. 262 f .
  • Walter Thousand Pound : Obernsees - history of the place on the border between the diocese of Bamberg and the rule of Zoller . In: Franconian Switzerland . No. 3 , 2004, ISSN  0724-018X , p. 1-6 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive for the history and archeology of Upper Franconia , Volume 4, Issue 3, Bayreuth 1850, p. 120.

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 45 ″  E