Silent-Night-Chapel
The Silent-Night - chapel in the town of Oberndorf in the Austrian state of Salzburg and is the memory of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night and his librettist Joseph Mohr and his composer Franz Xaver Gruber dedicated. It stands in place of the former St. Nicholas Church (St. Nicholas ) in the Christmas carol was performed for the first time on 24 December 1818.
History
The church of St. Nicholas was damaged several times in the 1890s by flooding the Salzach - especially by that of 1899, the case primarily the district Altach destroyed a large part of the town and. This led to the decision, the whole place Oberndorf, including the parish church of St. Nicholas to build about 800 m upstream new.
From a renovation of the damaged St. Nikola Church was apart for two reasons: On the one spared the cost and still looming risk of flooding, on the other hand you wanted the church to accept the built in 1906, moving less attractive church in the new town center. So the old parish church was demolished and in 1913 only remembered a debris cone at the historical origin of what has become known far and wide Christmas carol.
The 100th anniversary of the song in December 1918 fell into the difficult time immediately after the First World War. The more wanted to put the message of peace Mohr and Gruber a monument the citizens of Oberndorf. The 1924 resolved construction of a memorial chapel but came under the difficult conditions ( political and economic crises of the First Republic ) slowly in the phase of realization. Ultimately, the construction was completed on August 15, 1937 ( Assumption). Meanwhile, the Memorial Chapel was the visible symbol of the song Silent Night, Holy Night.
Every year, pull the Memorial Chapel and the museum beside it, especially in the advent of thousands of visitors from around the world. On the 24th of December every year by 17 clock a solemn memorial mass held at the carol is sung in the many languages of the visitors and seen as unifying experience. This celebration is transferred since 2002 by the local webcam on the internet.
Silent Night Chapel
The Silent Night Memorial Chapel was built on the original site of the parish church from 1924 to 1936. The chapel is an octagon shape with a bell helmet and a lantern, the portal has a abgewalmtes canopy. The arched windows were created in 1935 by the Tyrolean Stained Glass. The altar with a high relief birth of Christ is by the sculptor Hermann Hutter from 1915. A Predellenrelief Adoration of the Magi, Crucifixion, escape from Egypt is by the sculptor Max Domenig from 1936.
Replicas
Replica models of the Silent Night Chapel exist in the amusement park Mini Mundus at Klagenfurt in Carinthia ( 1:25 scale ) and in the model Mönichkirchen Park in Lower Austria. Furthermore, there is a replica in 1:1 scale in Frankenmuth in the U.S. state of Michigan.
The model railway accessories manufacturers Vollmer 2008 brought a model of the Silent Night Chapel in H0 scale on the market. In November 2010, one followed in 1:220 scale and in December 2011, one in 1:22.5 scale ( G Scale ).
Gallery
Altar
Window motif: Josef Mohr
Window motif: Franz Xaver Gruber