Pilgrimage chapel Jonental
The pilgrimage chapel Jonental is located in the Jonental east of Jonen in Switzerland . The listed chapel, located in a forest clearing, is the most important Marian pilgrimage site in the canton of Aargau .
Development and construction history
A first chapel in the Jonental was probably built in the 14th century. The chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1521. A hundred years later, Johann Anton Tritt , auxiliary bishop in Constance , inaugurated a new building. During the First Villmerger War in 1656, the people of Zurich penetrated the chapel and destroyed the altarpieces. The city of Bremgarten , which had lower jurisdiction over the cellar office , decided in 1734 to renovate the chapel. The construction contract went to the Lucerne foreman Hans Georg Urban. The construction work lasted until 1737 and cost around 22,000 guilders . The inauguration took place in 1742. In 1788 the high altar was restored and the miraculous image redesigned. In 1845 Johann Füglistaller from Jonen painted new side altar pictures. In 1888 the chapel received a new floor and new seating. At the same time, a privately paid interior renovation and an exterior renovation financed by the municipality of Jonen took place. The original paintings on the side altars were replaced by new ones. The rotten roof turret had to be demolished and replaced in 1921. From 1928 to 1929 the altars and the stucco marble were painted in color and a crucifix and praying angels were added to the miraculous image. In the vaulted areas, painter Huber from Pfäffikon SZ installed four pictures with motifs from the life of the Virgin Mary as well as an Annunciation scene on the back wall of the church . In the years 1963 to 1964, the changes made in 1928 were reversed, so that the original decorative painting can be seen again today. The side altars were also given back their paintings from 1845. From 1994 to 1995 another interior renovation took place under monument conservation aspects. In 2005 the exterior was repaired.
Building description
location
The pilgrimage chapel Jonental is located two kilometers east of Jonen in a clearing in the narrow Jonental. Three paths lead from Jonen to the pilgrimage chapel. As there is no road leading to the forest clearing, the last stretch of all three paths must be covered on foot.
Exterior
The cross-shaped building rises above the right bank of the stream on a reinforced platform with a flight of stairs in front of it. To the west of the chapel are the pilgrims' fountain from 1735 and the Sigristenhaus , which was built in 1831. The building, which is covered by a steep gable roof , framed by corner pilasters and richly decorated cornice, looks like a central building from the outside . In fact, the east-facing church has a plan in the form of the Latin cross that is rarely used in the region and is therefore a longitudinal building . A six-sided roof turret rises above the ridge cross . Inside there is a bell from 1669, which was cast by Heinrich Füssli in Zurich.
Interior and artistic equipment
The interior characterize sgraffito wood paintings with Regency motifs. The three late baroque altars are arranged concentrically . The high altar shows the miraculous image of Our Lady, which is framed by a halo and a double cloud glory . The miraculous image is a late Gothic Madonna , which was carved from limewood around 1530. The frame dates from the Baroque period and imitates brocade fabrics . Above the image of grace are the eye of God and above it the heart of Mary pierced by the sword. The tabernacle of the high altar dates from the Rococo period . The shape of the two side altars is adapted to the high altar. The altar leaves were renewed around 1845 by Johann Füglistaller in the Nazarene style. The right side altar shows the Holy Family , the left side altar shows the parents of Our Lady, Joachim and Anna . The scene in which Anna teaches her daughter Maria is shown. A baroque figure of the baby Jesus stands in a niche above the choir arch. The folk altar dates from 1983.
Legends of origin
Two legends tell of the origins of the chapel in the Jonental.
A first legend tells of a shepherd to whom Our Lady appeared in his sleep. When the shepherd woke up, he discovered the image of the Blessed Mother by his side. However, when a chapel for the image of Mary was to be built not at the actual site in the Jonental, but a little above, the walls were thrown into the ravine several times by invisible hands. A hermit finally advised to build the chapel at the place where the image of Mary was found.
A second legend tells that the miraculous image was thrown into the Jonenbach by the Zurich people during the Reformation as a result of the iconoclasm and was thus washed ashore in the Aargau Jonental.
literature
- Peter Felder: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IV, Bremgarten district. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1967, ISBN 3-906131-07-6 , p. 290-295 .
- Lothar Emanuel Kaiser: pilgrimage chapel Jonental - parish church Jonen . Ed .: Katholische Kirchgemeinde Jonen. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2005.
Web links
- Jonental pilgrimage chapel in the inventory of the canton of Aargau
- Entry on Aargau chapels
- Entry on the website of the parish of Jonen
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Emanuel Kaiser: Wallfahrtskapelle Jonental. Pp. 2-5.
- ^ Lothar Emanuel Kaiser: Wallfahrtskapelle Jonental. P. 7.
- ^ Lothar Emanuel Kaiser: Wallfahrtskapelle Jonental. Pp. 11-15.
- ^ Website of the parish of Jonen, section Chapel Jonental. The legend. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '3.8 " N , 8 ° 24' 40.5" E ; CH1903: 673558 / 239363