Thurner Chapel St. Wolfgang

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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 17 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 26 ″  E

Thurner: St. Wolfgang Chapel

The St. Wolfgang chapel on the Thurner is a Catholic church building in the Thurner district of the municipality of St. Märgen in the Black Forest . It belongs to the pastoral care unit Klosterdörfer St. Peter / St. Märgen in the dean's office Neustadt of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . The patron saint of the church is St. Wolfgang , who is among other things the patron saint of woodcutters, forest workers and shepherds.

history

As early as 1491, a St. Wolfgang chapel was mentioned at this point, which was used for prayer and worship, for the surrounding farms and for the merchants who used this transition from the Upper Rhine Plain and Freiburg to Lake Constance and Swabia .

Today's chapel was built in 1765 in the Baroque style at the instigation of Petrus Glunk, abbot of the St. Märgen monastery . In 1825, the Baden Ministry of the Interior wanted the chapel and the Ohmenkapelle , which also belonged to St. Märgen , to be demolished. After persistent intervention, especially by church authorities, both chapels were preserved.

description

Hall cross in front of the chapel

Exterior

The simple, east- facing building has a gable façade in the west and hems above the choir with a three- eighth end . A sacristy was added to the east in 1936 in front of the choir . The west facade, which is often exposed to stormy weather at the top of the pass, only has a small round window in the gable below the ridge. Otherwise it is smoothly plastered continuously. In the middle of it there is a hall cross . The entrance with a small porch is on the south side. In the front part of the church there is a roof turret in which two bells hang. The smaller one, weighing 75 kg, was cast by Heinrich Weitenauer in Basel in 1750 , while the larger one, weighing 250 kg, dates from 1951.

inner space

The baroque interior is relatively simple. The altar structure and the two figures of John the Baptist and St. Gallus were made by Matthias Faller. In the center of the altar is a replica of the Sarner Child Jesus , a foundation from 1937 by a woman who prayed in Sarnen in front of this miraculous image and then received healing. This miraculous image is also a destination for pilgrims on the Thurner . Some baroque paintings of saints come from the monastery of St. Märgen, which was closed in 1806. The two ceiling frescoes were made in 1936/1937 by the Hemberger brothers from Karlsruhe . The smaller one shows the Emmaus motif , the larger one shows St. Wolfgang, who holds his hand protectively over the Thurner. Today's windows were donated in 1922 by the surrounding farmers. At the rear of the chapel there is a gallery , but without an organ .

  • View to the altar

  • Interior with gallery

Web links

Commons : St. Wolfgangskapelle (St. Märgen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Franz Kern: The Dreisamtal with its chapels and pilgrimages. Freiburg i. Br. 1985, ISBN 3-89155-023-5 .