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Stechinelli Chapel Wieckenberg

Stechinelli Chapel Wieckenberg

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Stechinelli Chapel Wieckenberg

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Location: Wietze, Celle, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Flowing Forest Bike Trail – Aller Cycle Path Near Oldau loop from Celle

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2. Aller Cycle Path near Oldau – View of the River Aller loop from Großburgwedel

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3. Forest path in a pine forest – Flowing Forest Bike Trail loop from Wietze

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Gulbi 🥾&🚴‍♀️{super73}

July 20, 2022

History of the origins of the Stechinelli Chapel

The fate of the builder - Francesco Maria Capellini (1640 -1694), called Stechinelli (pronounced: Steckinelli) is as magical as the splendor of the chapel.

As a 15-year-old page, he came to the court of Duke Georg Wilhelm von Celle and rose to become General Hereditary Postmaster of the Guelph Principalities with the status of Imperial Baron. Through a brisk trade in wine and cloth and with real estate transactions, he acquired legendary wealth and several manors, including the manor in Wieckenberg. Here with a baroque-style pleasure garden, of which a baroque fountain has remained, the courtyard gate and the chapel, which he had built according to his designs in 1692, but whose completion in 1699 he did not live to see.

According to legend, his wife, who had the building completed, is said to have immortalized the 13 children in the ceiling paintings...

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Günter und Carola

July 18, 2024

This is a special chapel!

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KarstenE

May 5, 2025

Stechinelli Chapel Wiekenberg, a beautiful chapel

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Location: Wietze, Celle, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Stechinelli Chapel Wieckenberg

Stechinelli Chapel

Stechinelli Chapel Wieckenberg

1. Flowing Forest Bike Trail – Aller Cycle Path Near Oldau loop from Celle

2. Aller Cycle Path near Oldau – View of the River Aller loop from Großburgwedel

3. Forest path in a pine forest – Flowing Forest Bike Trail loop from Wietze

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