Marienkapelle (Würzburg) - Würzburg, Germany
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The Chapel of St. Mary is located at the edge of the market square in Würzburg's old town.
Waymark Code: WMHDAG
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 06/26/2013
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The Lady Chapel is a Gothic church in Würzburg on the Lower Market square. Despite its size, it is canonically a chapel.
Construction was started in 1377 by the citizens of the city on the ruins of a Jewish Synagogue destroyed during the persecution of the Jews at the time of the Black Death in 1349. It was completed about 100 years later
During the firebombing of Würzburg on 16 March 1945, the chapel was badly damaged and the interior destroyed. The tower and the statue of Mary atop it survived intact. The modern interior was designed as part of the 1948-61 recovery.
Special works of art are Adam and Eve at the Market Portal (1498), the tomb of the knight Konrad von Schaumberg in the interior (all by Tilman Riemenschneider), figures of Jesus, the Twelve Apostles and of St. John the Baptist from the Riemenschneider workshop and the reliquary bust of Aquilin, the only one of the Würzburg-born saint. It has the grave sites of important citizens of Würzburg, including Balthasar Neumann.
On 1 May 2013 six new bells from the Foundry Perner Passau were consecrated as replacements for the original bells destroyed in 1945.
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