Castle chapel

Castle chapels chapels were built on castles. Castle chapels can be found by analogy, on a castle. They were designed to meet the religious needs of the castle and castle lords and their followers, partly also as a burial site. Since the establishment and maintenance of a chapel for the castle or palace owners was costly, chapels not find as independent structures on each needle seat. Often had to suffice with an altar just a side room.

Castle chapels were mostly dedicated to saints who were particularly associated with the knighthood, such as the St. George or St. Gereon. The chapel of St. Mark at the castle in Braubach gave her in 1437 its present name: Mark Burg.

Often the castle chapels were to conjure up the divine protection of the most sensitive point of the castle near the door or on the upper floor of the gate tower (such as at Castle Wildenberg in the Odenwald ).

Particularly noteworthy are the twin chapels kingdom castles and imperial palaces such as the chapel of Nuremberg Castle. In its upper floor the nobility could follow in his suite on the lower floor of the church, where class differences were emphasized by the Contractor.

Examples of castle chapels in German-speaking

  • Chapel Altenstein
  • Chapel Bischofstein
  • Bled castle chapel
  • Castle chapel of St. Galli at the castle before Lauenrode Hannover
  • Guttenberg castle chapel
  • Chapel Hocheppan
  • Chapel Lochstädt
  • Chapel Lüttinghoff
  • Chapel cross ford
  • Chapel Salzburg
  • Chapel victory stone
  • Burg Stargard Chapel
  • Chapel stone
  • Chapel trips, Geilenkirchen
  • Chapel Wildenstein
  • Chapel Ziesar
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