Zilles Chapel

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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 44.3 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 13.1 ″  E

Zilles Chapel

The Zille Chapel (also: Zilskapelle St. John the Baptist ) is a first time in 1257 as Hermitage mentioned chapel . It is located north of the district of Treis in the local community Treis-Karden in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Zillesberg.

history

Even if its history can be traced back to the 13th century, a chapel of St. Cyriakus was first mentioned by name on September 8, 1420 in a dispensation request from the priest Johann von Eltz. In the visitation reports of 1570 and 1656/1657 it is referred to as sacello s. Caeciliae in monte and in 1646 it says in the description of the ten district of Karden Abbey: except for the Zillesberg at the chapel .

The Hermitage

The Zilles Chapel was one of the eleven hermitages of the Obererzstift Trier, which were combined in the German Congregation in 1703 . It was first mentioned in a document on April 9, 1257, when Nikolaus, dean of St. Castorstift Karden, bequeathed a Malter Korn and a pig to the hermit on the Zillesberg ( heremite in monte S. Tiricii ) that belonged to Gertrud von Treis. In the visitation reports of 1742 and 1743 it is called the Hermitage on Allerheiligenberg near Treyss and in 1777 a brother Hilarius Eremit is mentioned on the Sankt Blasius Berg in Threys . He was born as N. Zeuzius in Wittlich around 1729 and died on April 22, 1814 in Treis.

Another hermit on the Treiser Zillesberg is known to be the physically disabled Philipp Jacob Arentz (brother Paulus), who was born in Trier around 1711 and whose father came from Treis. He was a hermit from 1737 until after 1762, but led a vagabond, irregular lifestyle. On April 16, 1751, the hermit Anselm Kästen died at Treis.

Whether and to what extent a coin treasure buried near the chapel after 1673 and found in 1976 is related to the Hermitage is still open.

Name interpretation

Even if the names for the Zilles Chapel and the Zillesberg vary greatly in the historical documents, it can be assumed that, like the family names Zillis , Zilles, Zillesius and similar, it originally goes back to St. Cyriacus . This is supported by the fact that the family name Zilles is widespread in the immediate vicinity ( Cochem-Zell / Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis ) and has its origin here.

The name Zilleskapelle could, however, also be influenced by a theoretical earlier place name Tiricium or go back to Zille (= street).

architecture

The current quarry stone building with 70 to 90 centimeters thick walls dates from the beginning of the 17th century. The interior was redesigned in 1960 and the chapel was completely renovated in 2000. The chapel has a pitched roof with a pointed, eight-sided roof turret at the west end.

Furnishing

In the abstract colored windows designed by the Cologne painter Willi Strauss, the miracle of the cross of St. Hubertus , the Treis quarries, a natural motif, the heart of Mary pierced seven times, and the seed sunk into the ground in the round window above the gallery. The altar comes from the Treis war memorial. Left and right at the transition to the choir are St. Cyriacus and John the Baptist can be seen as a mosaic.

A statue of the Virgin Mary made in the Mettler workshop in Morbach in 1949 was stolen on July 16, 1973 and replaced by a depiction of the painful mother, who was also stolen on June 2, 1982. Then a replica of an old Pietà of unknown origin was erected. To the left of the entrance to the chapel there was a basalt cross from 1743 with the initials NN and GN until 1966.To the right of the entrance is a 2.70 meter cross originally from 1845, which was replaced in 1972 and renovated in 2000. It shows the instruments of suffering in rich ornamentation. The spire is decorated with an iron cross with a weathercock.

Wackenroder also lists a 78 centimeter high wooden statue of St. Castor from the beginning of the 17th century, which was stolen after 1939. He also mentions a 1.35 meter high wrought iron light stand from the same period with symmetrically rolled volute tendrils and grotesques as well as a skull of Adam and a house brand on the stone base.

Starting from Kastellauner Straße, a way of the cross with 14 stations leads steeply through the vineyards on the Moselle side to the Zilles chapel.

Web links

Commons : Zilleskapelle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Cochem-Zell district. Mainz 2020, p. 72 (PDF; 4.6 MB).
  2. ^ Ferdinand Pauly: The St. Kastor Abbey in Karden on the Mosel , Berlin 1986 p. 485.
  3. ↑ Jakob Marx: History of the Parishes of the Diocese of Trier , Trier 1923.
  4. ↑ Benetivra Plebanatur in Cardona Conscr. 1742, manuscript no. 2.7 in the Karden Abbey Museum, transcription by Klaus Layendecker.
  5. ↑ a b c Klaus Layendecker: Crosses on and on the Zillesberg . In: From Häckedetz and Stiftshere - history and stories of Treis-Karden . tape 1 . Treis-Karden 2004, ISBN 3-927049-38-7 .
  6. ^ Heinrich Beyer, Leopold Eltester and Adam Goertz: Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier , Volume III (1874) No. 1393 pp. 1006-1008.
  7. ↑ Diocese archive Trier Dept. 64 No. 71 and No. 96.
  8. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: On the history of Maria Engelport monastery. Volume IV - Oddities between the Hunsrück and Eifel from five centuries. The diary of Dionysius Schüppen. Erftstadt-Lechenich 1997 p. HI 450. ISBN 3-927049-13-1 .
  9. ↑ Rudolf Zimmer: The black sheep from Zillesberg - Brother Paulus Arentz between hermit hermitage and world . In: Von Häckedetz and Stiftshere - history and stories of Treis-Karden Volume 3. Treis-Karden 2006 pp. 111–121.
  10. ^ Karl-Josef Gilles: Another coin treasure of the 17th century from Treis on the Moselle . In: Trier Journal No. 42, 1979 pp. 197-209.
  11. ^ Norbert J. Pies: Family book Zilles. Part I Cologne 1986 and Part II Erftstadt 2015.
  12. ^ Josef Heinzelmann: The way to Trigorium - borders, roads and rule between Lower Moselle and Middle Rhine in the early Middle Ages . In: Yearbook for West German State History 21 (1995), pp. 9–132.
  13. ↑ Klaus Layendecker and Edmund Zilles: The ravages of time also gnawed at the Zilles Chapel! In: From Häckedetz and Stiftshere - history and stories of Treis-Karden. Volume 1. Treis-Karden 2004, ISBN 3-927049-38-7 , pp. 7-21.
  14. ↑ Zilles Chapel. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 26, 2015 ; accessed on May 26, 2015 .