Wide chapel
The Wide Chapel , a Baroque path chapel from the 18th century in Upper Silesian Oberglogau (Głogówek) , is located near the Oberglogau district of Głogowiec (Glöbaren) and is surrounded by old linden trees. Next to it is a wooden wayside cross. The chapel is the destination of processions.
The stone chapel with a surface area of 9 m² is artistically designed inside and houses a Madonna with child Jesus, a wooden copy of the miraculous image of Wartha . Furthermore, two frescoes depict the pilgrimage site of Wartha with the pilgrimage church and the Kapellenberg and the rescue of Majorate Lord Franz Eusebius von Oppersdorff from the floods of the flooded Hotzenplotztal . An iron lattice door in the entrance provides a clear view of the chapel from outside.
The path chapel was built at the point where the connecting road to Glöbaren branches off from the main road from Oberglogau to Leobschütz . It was built in 1762 , as can be seen from the inscription on the gable facade above the entrance. Majorate Lord Count Heinrich Ferdinand von Oppersdorff had the wayside chapel built to commemorate the salvation of his ancestor Franz Eusebius, who was considered miraculous. During an excursion in 1658 with his wife Anna (née von Brandis) and his family, he was surprised by the floods of a flood when they wanted to cross the Dirschelwitz ford through the Hotzenplotz. The chapel was deliberately chosen for the busy place on the country road, as opposed to the remote place of salvation. Since Franz Eusebius regularly visited the pilgrimage church in Wartha in Lower Silesia, the chapel was decorated with motifs from the pilgrimage site. It is not possible to determine who carried out the paintings in the chapel. They were touched up before the First World War, but are currently partially damaged.
The name Wide Chapel is explained by the fact that there are a total of six path chapels near Oberglogau, the most distant from Oberglogau is the Wide Chapel. Because of the depiction of the pilgrimage site of Wartha in the chapel, it was sometimes called the Warthakapelle.
Interior view with portrait of the Madonna
Motif with the pilgrimage church Wartha
The Wide Chapel around 1930
literature
- Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the city of Oberglogau: 1275–1925 , ( digitized version )
Web links
- Article of the parish of St. Bartholomew in Oberglogau (Polish)
- Picture of the chapel with a woman praying in costume, approx. 1930 ; Opole Voivodeship Digital Library
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 3.3 " N , 17 ° 51 ′ 38.8" E