Wegkapelle (Weismain)

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The Wegkapelle (also known as the Kleine Kreuzkapelle ) in Weismain is a Catholic chapel in the Upper Franconian town of Weismain in the Lichtenfels district ( Bavaria ). It is protected as a monument under the number D-4-78-176-70 by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .

location

The chapel is located at 320  m above sea level. NHN , about 160 m south of the Upper Gate on the local thoroughfare in Weismain.

History and description

The former Mayor of Weismain, Johann Moritz Schmelzing, had a first path chapel built on the site of today's chapel. It was primarily used for the private prayer of the faithful and as a station for Corpus Christi processions . She was maintained by the Corporis Christi Brotherhood .

As the chapel had become dilapidated, the church administration decided in 1840 to replace the chapel with a new building, today's chapel, in the neo-renaissance style . The new building is a true-to-original copy of the previous building and was carried out by the master mason Konrad Müller in Weismain. He submitted the draft for it on September 7, 1840.

It is a square sandstone building closed on three sides with a slate gable roof . The front consists of a large, open archway, which is closed by wrought-iron lattice doors, but allows a clear view of the interior of the chapel. The crucifix inside the chapel dates from around 1680 by an unknown artist and already adorned the previous building. The figures of Mary and John the Baptist have disappeared . There are two sandstone pilasters on either side of the archway .

literature

  • Günter Dippold: On Weismain church history from the beginning to the end of the Bamberg bishopric . In: Günter Dippold (ed.): Weismain - A Franconian city on the northern Jura 1 . Dechant Bau GmbH, Weismain 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814302-0-2 , pp. 231-262
  • Peter Ruderich: Weismain's history of art and architecture from the 13th to the 20th century . In: Günter Dippold (Ed.): Weismain , Volume 2, Weismain 1996, ISBN 3-9804106-0-9 , pp. 81-200

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Weismain (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ↑ a b Dippold (2011), p. 222
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ruderich (1996), p. 123f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 55.2 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 15.6 ″  E