Wenzel Chapel (Oberlahnstein)
| Wenceslas Chapel | |
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 Wenceslas Chapel |
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| place | Oberlahnstein , Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Construction year | 14th Century |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 17 '33.9 " N , 7 ° 36' 47.3" E |
The Wenzel chapel is a Gothic building from the 14th century in Lahnstein ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) and was the former chapel of Our Lady "on the hill" or "in the field". Today it is located on Max-Schwarz-Straße in the immediate vicinity of the Viktoriabrunnens premises.
history
The period of construction of the Liebfrauenkapelle is no longer traceable today. The chapel is mentioned for the first time in the Oberlahnsten Court Book of 1467. However, it is historically documented that August 20, 1400 was the date on which the reigning Roman-German King Wenzel of Luxembourg was found in the chapel by the Elector Johann II of Nassau (Mainz) , Werner von Falkenstein (Trier) and Friedrich III. from Saar Werden (Cologne) and the Count Palatine Ruprecht deposed. Since then, the name Wenceslas Chapel has become popular. Just one day later, Ruprecht was elected the new king at the Königsstuhl in Rhens on the opposite side of the Rhine.
On August 20, 1882, the Lahnsteiner Altertumsverein installed a commemorative plaque on the chapel for this historic event. When the chapel was sold to the Prussian State Railroad in 1898, it was demolished in 1903 because of the expansion of the Rhine Valley Railway and a marshalling and freight yard. On the initiative of the chairman of the antiquity club, Robert Bodewig , and under public pressure, the owners of the Victoria Fountain were able to use the original material of the demolished choir in 1905 to rebuild at least eighty meters northwest of its original place and to close it with a square vestibule Mistake. In 1953, the neighboring chemical company Zschimmer & Schwarz financed the renovation of the chapel and donated a new bell. The earlier bell was moved into the specially built turret of the Holy Spirit Chapel on Martinsberg in 1898.
Today's Wenzel Chapel does not represent the originally built Gothic chapel. The pictures by Caspar Scheuren from the Düsseldorf school of painting and the Lahnstein painter Franz Molitor (1857–1928) provide information about the earlier appearance . It can be seen that the choir was joined by a significantly larger nave with a turret than indicated today by the neo-Gothic vestibule.
In the "Rheinischen Antiquarius" from 1854 the interior of the chapel is described as follows:
“You can see the interior of the small church through two iron-barred windows, whose choir is separated by a second iron bar that extends from the vault to the floor. The painful mother with the Savior on her knees and the four paintings on the altar are nothing outstanding; A rough wooden staircase leads up to the narrow mezzanine stage. "
Furnishing
- Statue of the Mother of God with the baby Jesus in the left middle wall niche
- Icon with the Mother of God and the baby Jesus on the back wall of the choir
- in front of it a large wooden cross with the crucified Jesus (donated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Adolf Kolping's death on December 4, 1965)
- Commemorative plaque from 1882 and information board for the city of Lahnstein in the right side arch of the vestibule
- Wenzelstein in front of the chapel (granite boulder from the Rhine)
As a result of the demolition in 1903, the altar and the Pietà were moved to the Oberlahnsteiner Heilig-Geist-Kapelle. The Pietà is now in the Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Lahnstein.
gallery
Representation by Caspar Scheuren (1844)
Postcard (around 1900)
View around 1900
Rear view
Look into the choir
left side niches
Plaque
Wenceslas
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rhein-Lahn-Kurier No. 36/2019, page 9. (PDF) September 6, 2019, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
- ↑ State Library Center Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved March 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Molitor captured home with a brush . In: Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung . September 29, 2009, p. 20 .
- ↑ Historical painting shows Wenceslas Chapel before demolition . In: Rhein-Lahn-Zeitung . January 10, 2012, p. 15 .
- ^ Johann Christian von Stramberg: Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian ... Dept. 2, volume 4 . Rudolph Friedrich Christian Hergt , Coblenz 1854, p. 123 ( limited preview in Google Book search).