St. Walpurgis (Kirchehrenbach)

St. Walpurgis Community Kirchehrenbach Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 14 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 11 ″  E
Height :	507 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	0  (1987)
Postal code :	91356
The St. Walpurgis pilgrimage chapel, part of the Kirchehrenbach community

St. Walpurgis is a pilgrimage chapel that belongs to the municipality of Kirchehrenbach in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim , and at the same time one of two officially named districts of this municipality. St. Walpurgis is located about one and a half kilometers south-southeast of the center of Kirchehrenbach at an altitude of 507  m above sea level. NHN . It is located in the extreme southwest of the Wiesentalb .

history

The chapel, also known as the "Walburgis Chapel" or "Sankt-Walburgis Chapel", was built in 1697, but a predecessor building, presumably made of wood, was first mentioned in 1350. The parish fair, known as the “Walberla Festival”, still traditionally takes place on the first weekend in May at the location of the chapel.

As a result of the administrative reforms carried out in the Kingdom of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century , St. Walpurgis became part of the independent rural community of Kirchehrenbach with the second municipal edict in 1818 and still forms an officially designated part of this municipality.

On the night of September 18-19, 1962, the chapel was the target of a break-in by the so-called Madonna robber gang. It was a trio of burglaries who had specialized in the theft of sacred art objects and which had attracted national attention in the 1960s, especially through the robbery of the Madonna in the Volkach pilgrimage church of Maria im Weingarten .

Attractions

The Sankt Walburgis Chapel

See also : List of architectural monuments in St. Walpurgis

literature

• Johann Kaspar Bundschuh : St. Walpurgis . In: Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia . tape 5 : S-U . Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1802, DNB  790364328 , OCLC 833753112 , Sp. 297 ( digitized version ).
• Herbert Popp, Klaus Blitzer: Franconian Switzerland . In: Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): Landscapes in Germany . tape 81 . Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-412-51535-5 .
• Wolfgang Körner, Wolfgang Murr: Places of power in Franconia . Ed .: Wolfgang Körner. 2nd Edition. tape 1 . Vivita, Scheßlitz 2017, ISBN 978-3-945181-10-2 .
• Rainer Zeh: The Madonna robber gang . Norderstedt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8448-0221-4 .
• Federal Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 .

Web links

Commons : St. Walpurgis  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• St. Walpurgis in the BayernAtlas , accessed on November 9, 2019
• St. Walpurgis on a historical map , accessed on November 9, 2019
• St.Walpurgis, Kap.adEhrenbürg in the Topographia Franconiae of the University of Würzburg , accessed on November 10, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB  94240937X , p. 303 ( digitized version ). Retrieved November 9, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} St. Walpurgis in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, accessed on November 9, 2019.
3. ↑ Geographical location of St. Walpurgis in the Bayern Atlas , accessed on November 9, 2019
4. ^ Herbert Popp, Klaus Blitzer: The Franconian Switzerland . In: Landscapes in Germany . ISBN 978-3-412-51535-5 , pp. 279 .
5. ↑ Wolfgang Körner, Wolfgang Murr: Places of power in Franconia . ISBN 978-3-945181-10-2 , pp. 85 .
6. ^ Rainer Zeh: The Madonna robber gang . ISBN 978-3-8448-0221-4 , pp. 51 .