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Stone thal chapel

The Steinthal Chapel (sometimes also called the Stone Chapel ) or Maria Steinthal Chapel is located in Hammelburg , a small town in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .

The church is one of the architectural monuments of Hammelburg and is registered under the number D-6-72-127-63 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

The origin of the chapel goes back to the Hammelburger Johann Keck, who suffered a hemorrhage near a wayside shrine at the location of today's chapel in Steinthal and vowed to build a small chapel in honor of St. Mary . Which wayside shrine it was can only be guessed at.

The first written record of this popularly known report comes from Hammelburg pastor Valentin Josef Weiglein, who wrote it down in the Hammelburg parish chronicle in 1837, but neither Weiglein nor the subsequent authors who took over his report gave a source for their information.

Johann Keck was the owner of the Hammelburger Herrenmühle, which has now risen in the Hammelburg City Museum "Bread and Wine". He and his wife Maria Magdalena had four daughters and three sons between 1706 and 1716, of whom three daughters and two sons died in their first year of life. The origin of the couple is unknown, as is the place and time of their death; in Hammelburg they are last recorded for the years 1716/1717.

In his vows, Johann Keck referred to the image of Mary in the Schweinfurt Spitalkirche (predecessor of today's Heilig-Geist-Kirche ), which in his opinion was no longer venerated intensely enough. This happened because the hospital church was demolished in 1717 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Reformation except for the church tower and the choir and rebuilt as a Protestant church on the site of the former castle chapel directly on the city wall; it was renamed St. Salvator .

In connection with the implementation of his vows, Keck had a votive picture made with the year 1716 and a depiction of the Schweinfurt image of the Virgin and roofed over the wayside shrine in the Steinthal in the form of a house of saints. With a decree of August 18, 1717, the Fulda- based government approved an amount of 20 guilders for the roofing of the wayside shrine.

The chapel was built between 1739 and 1742. The fact that Johann Keck initially forgot his vow of 1717 and only implemented it 20 years later after a second hemorrhage should be part of the legend. Since Johann Keck is last recorded in Hammelburg in 1717, the impetus for the construction of the chapel probably came from the population.

The invoice for the construction of the chapel, prepared in 1739 by church governor Thomas Scheffer, lists the names of the donors from Hammelburg, Arnstein , Burghausen, Gemünden , Gräfendorf , Karlstadt , Wegfurt and Wolfsmünster . The inscription on the foundation stone of the chapel indicates that the actual construction work began in 1740. On November 17, 1742 the chapel was consecrated by the Fulda prince abbot and auxiliary bishop Amand von Buseck , although it did not yet have altar structures and bells.

Free altar

When word of the events got around - possibly due to word of mouth by Keck and his servants themselves - a pilgrimage that continues to this day soon began, which made it necessary to set up a pilgrimage site with a free altar and pulpit. At present , devotions are held at the chapel on Sundays and public holidays in May and October and on August 15, and a procession is held on the Monday before Ascension Day .

After the chapel was often only used as protection against storms and a dead child was found in the confessional in 1759 , a small vestibule was built in 1761 by order of the prince abbot.

Storm damage often had to be repaired. In the years 1841, 1876, 1909 to 1915 and 1965 to 1966, the chapel was extensively renovated. When a fire destroyed the porch in 1997 and soot inside the chapel, the chapel was again comprehensively renovated and re-inaugurated on July 4, 1998 by Auxiliary Bishop Helmut Bauer .

The Steinthal Chapel has been one of the stations on the Franconian Marienweg since 2002 .

Shortly before Easter 2016, on the 300th anniversary of the pilgrimage at the Steinthal Chapel, the necessary restoration of the miraculous image, which shows the miller Johannes Keck during his hemorrhage, was initiated. In April 2016, the restored image of grace was presented to the public again.

Wayside shrines

Wayside shrine depicting St. Family (1718).
Wayside shrine depicting St. Francis (second half of the 18th century).

The footpath to the chapel begins at a wooden cross that commemorates the fallen of the Second World War .

On the way to the chapel there are two wayside shrines from the 18th century. One of them dates from 1718, is made of yellow sandstone and shows the Holy Family and the coronation of Mary on the reverse . Due to the time it was made, however, this cannot be the shrine that was already there when Johann Keck took his vows. It was originally in Diebacher Strasse, then in Katzenrasen and for the first time in Steinthal. After a temporary installation at the Hammelburg parish church , it came back to its current location in the Steinthal. The inscription on the wayside shrine entrusts the passing hiker to the care of the Holy Trinity .

The second wayside shrine just before the chapel dates from the second half of the 18th century, is also made of sandstone and shows a representation of St. Francis . The wayside shrine was renovated in April 2008 and re-consecrated in August 2014.

Regarding the wayside shrine that prompted Johann Keck to take his vow in 1716, one can only speculate. Local researcher Norbert Kandler considers it unlikely that this wayside shrine was removed when the chapel was built. Rather, he believes it is possible that the wayside shrine already represented the image of the Virgin Mary in the Schweinfurt hospital church - which would also explain why Keck thought of the image of the Virgin Mary in Schweinfurt when he made his vow - and holds the wooden figure of Mary in the chapel for that wayside shrine Johann Keck suffered the hemorrhage.

Furnishing

Altars

The construction of the high altar dates from 1746 by the Hammelburg sculptor Johann Jakob Faulstich (1697–1768) with side figures of Saints Anna and Joachim made by Faulstich . The oil painting Adoration of the Newborn Child of God by the Fulda court painter Emanuel Wohlhaupter serves as the altarpiece ; Wohlhaupter took over the motif from a graphic sheet that had been published shortly before by the Johann Elias Ridinger publishing house in Augsburg and probably originated from Johann Jacob Haid . The high altar was taken in 1766 and redesigned in 1843 and a tabernacle was added. The draft from the sculptor MJ Mehling preserved in the parish archives suggests that the tabernacle in its current form was installed by Mehling in 1872.

The Pietà of the altar was created around 1750.

When the chapel was consecrated on November 17, 1742, relics of St. Paul and the evangelists Matthew and Luke were admitted.

The early classicist side altars date from 1775. The right side altar houses the votive image , which goes back to Johann Keck's vow and is painted on a wooden panel, depicting the Madonna with the Christ child. the saints Barbara and Margareta are on the right side altar as side figures . The side figures of the left side altar represent St. Boniface (left) and probably St. Sturmius .

Miraculous image

The miraculous image on the right side altar is a seated Madonna with a child Jesus facing the viewer. The original version of the miraculous image is the image painted on a wooden panel on the right side altar, which was created through Johann Keck's vow and shows the Schweinfurt shrine of the Virgin Mary. In the picture a man sitting on a dark horse and a man sitting on a white horse, lightly dressed and spitting blood, ride past the shrine of Mary; a third man comes towards them from the right. The chapel houses two other representations of this miraculous image, namely in the form of a wooden figure on the Altar of Mary and a sandstone figure in the anteroom.

On the wooden figure of the miraculous image, the crown of the baby Jesus bears the slogan "Christ the victor, Christ the King, Christ Lord in eternity". In the Marian year of 1988, the image of grace received a crown of Mary with the Magnificat quotation "He overthrows the mighty from the throne and exalts the lowly". The wooden figure is decorated on special occasions. In the opinion of local history researcher Norbert Kandler, this wooden figure represented the image of the Virgin in the Schweinfurt hospital church and stood as a wayside shrine at the place where Johann Keck suffered his hemorrhage and made his vows in relation to the Schweinfurt image of the Virgin. Kandler does not consider the wooden figure to be the original from Schweinfurt, but rather a copy, since the Schweinfurt church was consecrated in 1412 and the wooden statue is younger.

The sandstone figure in the anteroom bears the inscription "SBV Maria im Steinthal". There are no documentary documents about the time of its creation; Based on its inscription, however, Kandler dates it to the 18th or early 19th century and sees it as a copy of the wooden statue.

pulpit

Presumably, planning or preparatory work for the pulpit of the chapel began as early as 1746. It was finally made in March 1753, probably on the occasion of an indulgence by Johann Jakob Faulstich with the assistance of the joiner Jörg Müller and Kaspar Schuhmann from Fulda.

The pulpit was last restored in 1876 and removed when the chapel was renovated in 1915. The figures of the four evangelists belonging to the pulpit are now on the walls of the choir .

organ

The first evidence of an organ in the Steinthal Chapel includes church bills from the Chapel Foundation for example from 1750 and repairs by an organ maker in 1751. In 1760, a new organ was installed by Jörg Markert from Salzburg . A new organ may have been built into the chapel at the beginning of the 19th century; For the years 1820/21 a payment of 135 florins to the Untererthal organ maker Sudfüll is proven. At the beginning of the 20th century, the organ was removed from the chapel.

Bells

In 1743 Margareta Hailmann from Untereschenbach donated two bells for the chapel. They were of different sizes but the same shape and carried a cross and an image of the Mother of God. Both have been missing since the Second World War , when they had to be delivered for the purpose of being melted down.

On October 24, 1950, a bell of unknown origin was installed. In 1953 a second followed, but the sound did not match the bell installed in 1950 and was therefore replaced in April 1954 by a bell supplied by the Erdinger company Czudnowsky. The bell installed in 1950 has the tone a '', the bell delivered in 1954 has the tone h ''.

Others

On the gallery parapet there is a cycle of paintings on the life of Mary from 1750. The ceiling painting made by Eulogius Böhler in 1914 shows the Marriage of the Virgin Mary and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .

literature

  • Karl Stöckner: The landmarks in the Bad Kissingen district. Volume 3. Self-published by the Bad Kissingen district, 1979, pp. 141f.
  • Norbert Kandler: Steinthal. Legend - place of pilgrimage - house of God. In: Johannes Merz (Hrsg.): Hammelburg - building blocks for the parish history. Festschrift for the Year of Anniversaries 1989, Hammelburg 1988, pp. 45–60.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich Berlin 1999, p. 424.
  • Josef Treutlein, Johannes Martin: Franconian Marienweg. Marian shrines and places of worship in Lower Franconia. Publishing house Conventus Musicus, ISBN 3-429-02564-8 .

Web links

Commons : Steinthalkapelle (Hammelburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Steinthal Chapel at the "Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation" (www.geodaten.bayern.de)
  2. ↑ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, reviewed and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 424
  3. ↑ Johannes Merz (Ed.): Hammelburg - building blocks for parish history , commemorative publication for the year of anniversaries in 1989, Hammelburg 1988, pp. 47–49
  4. ↑ a b Valentin Josef Weiglein, Rev., records in the Hammelburg parish chronicle , begun in 1837: "Chapel on Steinthal"
  5. ↑ Diocesan Archives Würzburg, register Hammelburg A 5, No. 1210
  6. ↑ MJK Bandschuh: Geographical statistical-topographical lexicon of Franconia etc. , 6 volumes, Ulm 1799.1804, p. 682f.
  7. ↑ Mader / Lill: Art monuments of Lower Franconia, city a. Bez.Amt Schweinfurt , Munich, 1917, p. 54
  8. ↑ Simon Schöffel: The ecclesiastical sovereignty of the Reichsstadt Schweinfurt , Leipzig 1918, pp. 90, 93, 99, 101, 104, 117, 139, 144, 191, 228, 282, 292, 466, 468
  9. ↑ Hammelburg parish archive, building files 81.2.
  10. ↑ Valentin Josef Weiglein, Rev., records in the Hammelburg parish chronicle , begun in 1837, p. 23
  11. ^ Döll Ph. J .: Historical and statistical news about the city of Hammelburg a. Saaleck Castle , Würzburg, 1873, p. 257
  12. ^ Josef Dünninger: The Marian pilgrimages of the Diocese of Würzburg , Würzburg, 1960. P. 61
  13. ^ Parish archives Hammelburg, chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation, 1739
  14. ↑ a b c d e Hammelburg parish archive, box 45
  15. ↑ Chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation, 1761, p. 16
  16. ↑ Chapel accounts of the Steinthal Foundation, 1740–1800; 1776, p. 15; 1798, p. 16
  17. ↑ "Fränkischer Marienweg" - Route 4 (graphic representation)
  18. ↑ Barbara Oschmann: Votive image is freed from the veil. In: Saale newspaper . April 30, 2016, accessed December 17, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Barbara Oschmann: The votive picture has been freed from the veil - Reinhold Müller has restored a 300 year old work from the Steinthal Chapel . In: Main-Post , April 30, 2016.
  20. ↑ a b "www.lkkissingen.rhoen-saale.net" - Bad Kissingen district, Hammelburg monument protection ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lkkissingen.rhoen-saale.net
  21. ↑ Johannes Merz (Ed.): Hammelburg - building blocks for parish history , commemorative publication for the year of anniversaries in 1989, Hammelburg 1988, p. 47
  22. ↑ Karl Stöckner: vestibules monuments in the district of Bad Kissingen, Volume 2, self-published the district Bad Kissingen 1979, p 141
  23. ↑ The stone becomes an eye-catcher . In: Saale-Zeitung , August 19, 2014, accessed on May 13, 2017.
  24. ↑ a b c Norbert Kandler: Steinthal. Legend - place of pilgrimage - place of worship , in: Johannes Merz (Hrsg.): Hammelburg - building blocks for parish history , commemorative publication for the year of anniversaries in 1989, Hammelburg 1988, p. 48
  25. ^ Parish archives Hammelburg, chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation, p. 15
  26. ↑ a b c d e Archives of the Bad Kissingen District Office 336/83
  27. ↑ G. Richter: Churches and Altarkonsekrationen in the Diocese of Fulda from 1728-1767 , in: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , 22 ,. Year 1929, p. 63
  28. ^ R. Kümmert: Maria Steinthal, preliminary work for a pilgrimage booklet , copied manuscript 1957
  29. ^ Parish archive Hammelburg, chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation, 1746
  30. ^ August Amrhein: Archive inventories of the cath. Parishes in the Diocese of Würzburg , Würzburg, 1914, p. 252
  31. ^ Parish archives Hammelburg, chapel invoice of the Steinthal Foundation, 1754, p. 11 and documents 1 and 2
  32. ↑ a b Valentin Josef Weiglein, Rev., records in the Hammelburg parish chronicle , begun in 1837, p. 24
  33. ^ Hammelburg parish archive. Chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation, p. 9
  34. ^ Hammelburg parish archive. Chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation 1751
  35. ^ Hammelburg parish archive. Chapel bill of the Steinthal Foundation 1820/21
  36. ↑ Valentin Josef Weiglein, Rev., records in the Hammelburg parish chronicle , begun in 1837, p. 27
  37. ↑ a b c Robert Kümmert: The bells of the Hammelburg district. Würzburg 1955, p. 35
  38. ^ Parish archives Hammelburg, box 45, fascia bells

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '15.1 "  N , 9 ° 53' 5.7"  E