Wolfgang Chapel (Heilbronn)

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Memory of the chapel on the facade of the house at Wolfganggasse 16

The Wolfgang Chapel was a chapel in Heilbronn . The building already existed in the late Middle Ages, was secularized in the 16th century and later merged into the economy of the brave Swabian , which, like the entire Heilbronn city center , was destroyed in the air raid on Heilbronn on December 4, 1944.

history

Little is known about the origin and origin of the sacred building. The Wolfgang chapel is first mentioned in a document from 1486, when the dye house with accessories (formerly Judenbad) in the new street (at that time corner Lammgasse / Rappengasse) opposite the St. Wolfgang chapel was sold. Later the beguinage near St. Wolfgang (as opposed to another Heilbronn beguinage) was named after the chapel. In 1507 there was a dispute over the restoration or demolition of the chapel due to its dilapidation. This means that the chapel must have been old at the time. In 1527 a decision was made to restore or convert the chapel. From the 16th to the 18th century the chapel was used as an armory and then as a residential building. In 1844 the former chapel was used as a restaurant. The owner of the building, the baker Johann Berrett, had a false ceiling installed in the nave, added stories to the building and set up his restaurant on the first floor. During the renovation in 1844, the chapel's sacred character was finally lost. In 1848 the restaurant of Johann Berrett became the central meeting point of the Heilbronn Democrats from 1848 and therefore also called the Revolution Hall. The band thus entered the Heilbronn labor movement . From 1915 the restaurant was called the Brave Swabian economy.

description

The chapel could be entered from Lammgasse, where the entrance portal of the Wolfgang chapel was. Two windows were in the two side walls of the chapel, which were about 12.30 and 11.10 meters long. The gable sides, on the other hand, were 7.70 and 7.80 meters wide. There was a window on the side facing away from Lammgasse. The windows were 1.25 meters wide and 2.73 meters wide. The chapel was 6 meters high up to the eaves. The walls of the chapel were designed in two-shell construction and had a diameter of 80 to 90 cm.

In 1904 the altarpiece from St. Wolfgang from 1517 was still preserved. A half-relief was attached to a house wall in Wolfgangsgasse after the war and commemorates the name of the alley.

Casts of stonemason's marks that Willi Zimmermann made before the war ruins were torn down are kept in the Heilbronn City Archives .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dumitrache, page 111, No. 73 Wolfgangskapelle / Zeughaus / Wirtshaus Revolutionshalle, to the brave Swabian, gone, Lammgasse 19.
  2. ↑ Statist. State Office: Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn , chapels
  3. ↑ With a description of histor. Heilbronn III Association, p. 32.

literature

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '39.6 "  N , 9 ° 13' 8.6"  E