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Käppele
The ''Käppele'' ('Little Chapel') is the commonly used name for the ''Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung'' ('Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of Mary'), located on a hill above Würzburg, in Germany. (It must not be confused with the '' Marienkapelle'', or Chapel of Mary, located in the centre of the same city.) It was built following plans by Balthasar Neumann in the mid-18th century in Rococo style. Until 2014 it was attended to by members of the Capuchins. Geography The church is located on the north-eastern slope of the 366 metre Nikolausberg, below the ' and above the left bank of the Main in the city of Würzburg, the capital of Lower Franconia in the north of Bavaria, Germany. Etymology In the Swabian and Franconian dialects, the word ''Käppele'' () is a diminutive of the German word ''Kapelle'' (), meaning 'chapel', and is also used in the names of a number of other, mostly small, hill-top chapels in the area, such as the '' Erlabrunner Käppele'', located 15&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käppele Würzburg Gnadenkapelle
The ''Käppele'' ('Little Chapel') is the commonly used name for the ''Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung'' ('Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of Mary'), located on a hill above Würzburg, in Germany. (It must not be confused with the '' Marienkapelle'', or Chapel of Mary, located in the centre of the same city.) It was built following plans by Balthasar Neumann in the mid-18th century in Rococo style. Until 2014 it was attended to by members of the Capuchins. Geography The church is located on the north-eastern slope of the 366 metre Nikolausberg, below the ' and above the left bank of the Main in the city of Würzburg, the capital of Lower Franconia in the north of Bavaria, Germany. Etymology In the Swabian and Franconian dialects, the word ''Käppele'' () is a diminutive of the German word ''Kapelle'' (), meaning 'chapel', and is also used in the names of a number of other, mostly small, hill-top chapels in the area, such as the '' Erlabrunner Käppele'', located 15&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Käppele Würzburg Deckenfresken(1752)
The ''Käppele'' ('Little Chapel') is the commonly used name for the ''Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung'' ('Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of Mary'), located on a hill above Würzburg, in Germany. (It must not be confused with the '' Marienkapelle'', or Chapel of Mary, located in the centre of the same city.) It was built following plans by Balthasar Neumann in the mid-18th century in Rococo style. Until 2014 it was attended to by members of the Capuchins. Geography The church is located on the north-eastern slope of the 366 metre Nikolausberg, below the ' and above the left bank of the Main in the city of Würzburg, the capital of Lower Franconia in the north of Bavaria, Germany. Etymology In the Swabian and Franconian dialects, the word ''Käppele'' () is a diminutive of the German word ''Kapelle'' (), meaning 'chapel', and is also used in the names of a number of other, mostly small, hill-top chapels in the area, such as the '' Erlabrunner Käppele'', located 15&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Würzburg
Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is situated approximately east-southeast of Frankfurt am Main and approximately west-northwest of Nuremberg (). The population (as of 2019) is approximately 130,000 residents. The administration of the ''Landkreis Würzburg'' ( district of Würzburg) is also located in the town. The regional dialect is East Franconian. History Early and medieval history A Bronze Age (Urnfield culture) refuge castle, the Celtic Segodunum,Koch, John T. (2020)CELTO-GERMANIC Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West p. 131 and later a Roman fort, stood on the hill known as the Leistenberg, the site of the present Fortress Marienberg. The former Celtic territory was settled by the Alamanni in the 4th or 5th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balthasar Neumann
Johann Balthasar Neumann (; 27 January 1687 (?) – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Italian, and French elements to design some of the most impressive buildings of the period, including the Würzburg Residence and the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (called ''Vierzehnheiligen'' in German). The Würzburg Residence is considered one of the most beautiful and well proportioned palaces in Europe and the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers is considered by some as the crowning work of the period. Early life Neumann was born in Eger, Kingdom of Bohemia, now known as Cheb, Czech Republic, in January 1687. He was the seventh of nine children of cloth-maker Hans Christoph Neumann (d. 1713) and his wife Rosina (1645–1707). Neumann was baptized on 30 January 1687. His first apprenticeship was spent working at a bell and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage Church
A pilgrimage church (german: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the graves of saints, or hold portraits to which miraculous properties are ascribed or saintly relics that are safeguarded by the church for their veneration. Such relics may include the bones, books or pieces of clothing of the saints, occasionally also fragments of the cross of Jesus, pieces of the crown of thorns, the nails with which he was fixed to the cross and other similar objects. Pilgrimage churches were also built at places where miracles took place. List of Roman Catholic pilgrimage churches Churches are listed in alphabetical order of the sites in or near where they are located. Austria * Ardning, Styria: Pilgrimage Church of Frauenberg * Bad Leonfelden, Upper Austria: Pilgrimage Church of Maria Schutz am Bründl * Berg bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Peter Alexander Wagner
Johann Peter Alexander Wagner (c.26 February 1730 – 7 January 1809) was a German rococo sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc .... Life Wagner was born in Theres, Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany and was initially trained by his father, Johann Thomas Wagner. In 1747 he took up studies in Vienna under several another Johann Wagner and Balthasar Ferdinand Moll. He then moved to Mannheim and worked under Paul Egell, Paul or Augustin Egell. After a visit to France in 1756, he went to Würzburg to work under :de:Johann Wolfgang van der Auwera, Johann Wolfgang van der Auwera, court sculptor to Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim, Prince–Bishop of Würzburg. Auwera died that same year and Wagner married the widow, Maria Cordula Curé. He also assumed the workshop of his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
