Ulner Chapel
The Ulnersche chapel was until 2012 a Roman Catholic church in Weinheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in the northwest of Baden-Württemberg ; it was built in the 14th century, sold in 2012 and desecrated as a church.
history
The chapel was first mentioned in 1368 in a document from the Mainz cathedral chapter . After her, Hildegund zu Weinheim made a foundation and transferred the funds to Johannes Schultheiss von Weinheim, who was probably her brother. With the donation funds, a wooden chapel in Weinheimer Neustadt was demolished and replaced by a stone structure between 1350 and 1367 and a hospital built. From 1407 the foundation was administered by the Ulner von Dieburg . They increased the foundation's assets and Wilhelm Ulner von Dieburg donated a new altar in 1467.
After the Reformation was introduced in the Electoral Palatinate , all the altars and portraits in the chapel were destroyed in 1558. In 1718, the hospital was rebuilt by Franz Pleickard Ulner von Dieburg and the chapel was renovated until 1721, with all the altars except for the Wilhelm's altar being removed. In 1878 the chapel was renovated again and consecrated to the Holy Abbot Wilhelm. The chapel was removed from the old foundation in 1905 and incorporated into the “Ulner Fonds”, a church foundation administered by the St. Laurentius Congregation. The secular part, the "Freiherr von Ulner'sche Foundation", has been administered by the Rhein-Neckar district since 1979 .
In 2012 the church sold the chapel to private owners and desecrated it as a place of worship . Together with the former poor hospice , the building was converted into a private event center.
description
The Ulnersche Chapel has an eight-sided roof turret and is in the center of Weinheim's old town on the market square. However, it is no longer visible from the square since a multi-storey residential and commercial building was built in front of the chapel in 1907. It replaced a smaller building and integrated the baroque portal with two angel heads in the lintel . The coat of arms of the Ulner von Dieburg is attached to the skylight .
Behind the entrance, 20 steps lead down to the Gothic pointed arch portal of the chapel. Another eight steps lead down into the nave . A pointed triumphal arch separates the nave from the choir with a 5/8 end . Two portals in the choir lead to the sacristy and the hospital building. The pointed arch windows probably date from the time the chapel was built in the 14th century, only the three-part main window in the choir was renewed in 1877. In the choir are the tombstones of Johannes Schultheiß von Weinheim († 1367) and Hamann Schultheiß von Weinheim († 1407) and the artistic epitaph by Hartmann Ulner von Dieburg († 1502).
literature
- Karljosef Kropp, Jörg Kreutz: "And should the ulnner and ir inherit too ... nurses and getruwe zu seher sin des spittals" - Chapel and hospital foundation of the Ulner von Dieburg in Weinheim . Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-932102-25-7 .
- Rainer Laun: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis , in: Dagmar Zimdars u. a. (Ed.), Georg Dehio (Gre.): Handbook of German Art Monuments : Baden-Württemberg I. The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe . Munich 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 .
- Hans Huth: The art monuments of the Mannheim district: Without the city of Schwetzingen . Munich 1967.
- State Archive administration Baden-Württemberg in connection with d. Cities and districts Heidelberg u. Mannheim (Hrsg.): The city and the districts of Heidelberg and Mannheim: Official district description , Bd. 3: The city of Mannheim and the communities of the district of Mannheim . Karlsruhe 1970.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 47 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 23.5" E