Ulrichskapelle (Standorf)

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Ulrich's Chapel (2015)

The Ulrich chapel near the Creglingen district of Standorf is one of the three well-preserved late Romanesque octagon chapels in the Franconian region of Baden-Württemberg .

Location of the chapel

View from the opposite side of the valley

The Ulrich chapel is located in the southeastern part of the Main-Tauber-Kreis above for Creglinger district Niederrimbach belonging village Stan village towards Munster . It is around 3.5 km from Creglingen. The Ulrichsquelle rises directly below the chapel , the water of which is believed to have a healing effect on eye diseases in popular belief . This flows into the Rindbach , a left tributary of the Tauber . It is owned by the Evangelical Church Community of Creglingen .

The Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal leads past the Ulrichskapelle.

Remains of the outer pulpit and grave slabs

Building history

The chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1429, but due to its great structural similarities with Brauneck Castle , construction of which began before 1230 under Konrad von Hohenlohe , and stylistic similarities with the octagon chapels of St. Sigismund in Oberwittighausen (around 1150) and St. Achatius in Grünsfeldhausen (around 1200) a building in the early 13th century is close. A similar church from the same time used to stand in the nearby Bavarian town of Gaurettersheim . A dendrochronological report by the Institute for Botany at the University of Stuttgart shows that an oak column that stands inside the chapel was felled between 1209 and 1229.

Disputes about the Ulrich chapel

Since the 1920s, folk authors such as the lawyer Erich Jung and the first director of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz, Karl Schumacher, have published various theories on the building history and function of the Ulrich's Chapel. An old pagan sanctuary is said to have been located on the site of today's church . The wooden column in the chapel was interpreted as Irminsul . The Turin shroud is said to have been kept in the chapel for a certain period of time . According to the art historian and religious scholar Tanja Fischer, this theory was first published in 1989 in Willi K. Müller's book Festive Encounters: The Friends of the Turin Shroud in Two Millennia , whereby this book should be understood more as a "historical novel" for them. None of the above theories could be proven historically. The writer Gunter Haug used the theme and the church as a background in his crime novel Tauberschwarz in 2002 . As Gerhard Stammler, a neighbor of the chapel from 2003 repeated over the church council and the leaders of the Evangelical Church allegations put forward in the chapel would esoteric seminars organized and diviners play their "mischief", escalated the dispute. The following disputes between the representatives of the church, the city administration, parts of the media and the local church leader and local researcher Kurt Wagner received a lot of coverage in the press in 2008 and 2009 and led to the chapel being temporarily closed to visitors. At a forum in the Creglinger Romschlössle with the participation of church representatives, mayors, art historians and architects , it was announced to the public on March 23, 2009 that the chapel will be reopened to visitors after registration.

literature

  • Michael Raisch: A sanctuary in the Taubertal? The interpretations of the Ulrich chapel in Standorf . Jena Academic Publishing Company, Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812008-2-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Michael Raisch among the files of the parish Creglingen.
  2. a b Fränkische Nachrichten of March 25, 2009
  3. ^ Report in the Heilbronner Voice of January 29, 2008
  4. See for example the Fränkische Nachrichten of January 14, 2009.
  5. report by Gernot Stegert in the Heilbronner Stimme from April 17, 2009

Web links

Commons : Ulrichskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 35 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 7 ″  E