Wendelskirche (Bad Salzungen)

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View from the south (2009)
View from the north (2009)
Pulpit inside the chapel (1907)

The Wendelskirche was a hospital chapel in today's town of Bad Salzungen and was located near the suburb of Allendorf , about 800 meters east of the castle complex. Today the church is protected as a cultural monument.

location

The St. Wendel Chapel is located in the eastern part of the city on August-Bebel-Straße.

history

The building, created as a Gothic chapel, was built around 1481, according to the chronicle in 1486; Its founder was the citizen of Salzung, Heinrich Fulda, who had this church built to provide pastoral support to the nearby special hospital , as reported by a weathered inscription above the (western) portal. The church was dedicated to Saint Wendelin . In 1596, a descendant of the founder had the adjoining St. Wendel cemetery surrounded by a wall that was still in place. At the entrance a stone inscription plaque admonishes the visitors: “(JOHANNES-V) THE HOURS WILL COME IN WHICH ALL WHO ARE IN THE GREBERN WILL HEAR HIS VOICE AND WILL PROCEED THE GVTES HAVE DONE ZVR AVFERSTEHVNG THE LIFE OF THE COURT ".

The chapel was used until 1874 - first as a chapel for the hospital, then for the resulting Salzung poor house. There was a cemetery next to the chapel. The chapel also served as a place of worship for the residents of the village of Allendorf and the northern neighboring villages and courtyards of Grundhof, Oberrohn, Unterrohn, Mittelrohn and Graefen-Nitzendorf . From 1994 to 2004 the church building was renovated with the support of the Bad Salzungen Lions Club.

Structural remains

The church building, like the Husenkirche, has no tower and is made of local gray sandstone and is a rectangular structure with a rectangular chancel on the east side. A series of narrow window openings structure the facade . On the north and south side you can see a walled entrance. Today's access is from the west. Next to the portal is a weathered plaque belonging to the founder. The largely unadorned interior of the chapel is enlivened by the stone pulpit attached to the south wall.

meaning

As a building, the Wendelskirche is of great importance for the town and church history, it is a cultural monument within the meaning of the Thuringian Monument Protection Act .

literature

  • Ludwig Hertel: The St. Wendels Church In: Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, Booklet XXXV District Court District Salzungen P. 24–26 Jena 1909.
  • Hartmut Ruck: Chronicle Bad Salzungen Bad Salzungen (no year)
  • Brückner: Regional Studies of the Duchy of Meiningen - Part Two - pp. 3–68

Web links

Commons : Wendelskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office TK350 overview map - Thuringia, Erfurt (from 1991)
  2. ↑ Ludwig Hertel: Herzoghtum Sachsen Meiningen. Meiningen district. Bad Salzungen administrative district . In: Paul Lehfeld and Georg Voss (eds.): Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia . Booklet XXXV. G. Fischer Verlag, Jena 1909, p. 24-26 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 47.3 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 45.1"  E