St. Vitus Chapel (Stuttgart)

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The St. Vitus Chapel as seen from the Upper St. Vitus Street
View to the high altar

The Veitskapelle is a Protestant church built in late Gothic style in the Stuttgart district of Mühlhausen am Neckar and has also been the main church of the village since April 15, 1943, after the actual parish church, the Walpurgis Church, burned down completely in an air raid by the Royal Air Force .

history

The St. Vitus Chapel was donated in 1380 by Reinhard von Mühlhausen, a citizen of Prague , for his deceased brother Eberhard, on the condition that a soul mass would be held every day, first for Eberhard and then for Reinhard. The foundation stone was laid on May 21, 1380. Construction was completed in 1385.

In the following period, Württemberg sold his Mühlhausen property to the Lords of Neuhausen, from whom it passed to the Lords of Kaltental in 1461 , whose monuments can be found in the St. Vitus Chapel. Mühlhausen became a knightly village, which came to the Lords of Palm via various families in 1728 and was only reunited with the Württemberg state territory in 1806. It is due to this special circumstance that the St. Vitus Chapel with its furnishings was preserved despite the Reformation, which was not carried out here with the strictness that is hostile to images as in Württemberg.

Use after the Reformation

After the Reformation in Mühlhausen am Neckar around 1556, a daily service took place in the spirit of the founder until 1783, which was only completely discontinued after Russian soldiers passing through the chapel had served as a storage room in 1813. After that it threatened to disintegrate, but was then thoroughly restored by the barons of Palm, who held the patronage until 1927, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary 1874-1880.

  • Wall paintings in the choir room

  • The choir vault facing east

  • The choir vault with a view of the ship

literature

  • Adrienne Braun: In the middle and outside. Stuttgart's quiet corners , Konstanz 2014, pp. 136–143.
  • Carl Alexander von Heideloff (editor): The art of the Middle Ages in Swabia. Monuments of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting , Stuttgart 1855–1864, pp. 35–40, panel IV, XI.
  • Volker Himmelein: Evangelical Veitskapelle Stuttgart-Mühlhausen , 4th edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1998 (= large architectural monuments, issue 254).
  • Dörthe Jakobs: A very special “construction site”. The St. Vitus Chapel in Stuttgart-Mühlhausen . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, 42nd year, 2013, issue 3, pp. 145–152 ( PDF ).

Web links

Commons : Veitskapelle (Stuttgart-Mühlhausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ There is also the traditional spelling with "th" (Lords of Kaltenthal), but it is the gentlemen with the headquarters of Kaltental Castle .

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 53 ″  E