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St. Boniface Chapel, Salzburg Castle (Bad Neustadt)

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St. Boniface Chapel, Salzburg Castle (Bad Neustadt)

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    September 22, 2024

    The chapel is part of the Salzburg that is open to the public. Since the castle is privately owned, many parts can only be visited during a guided tour.

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      February 6, 2023

      In the fall of 1836, the Westphalian baron Werner von Haxthausen stayed in Bad Kissingen for a cure. During a short tour, Haxthausen also visited Salzburg. The following year, the nobleman, who had become wealthy through marriage and was, among other things, highly educated as a philologist, acquired the nearby Neuhaus estate, which also included a third of Salzburg. At that time, healing springs had been developed in Neuhaus. The baron probably already planned to expand the estate into a private bath when he acquired the estate.

      At that time, the remains of the medieval chapel that Haxthausen examined could still be seen in the castle courtyard. Because of the historical significance of the place, he decided to have a church built there again and consecrated to St. Boniface. It is said that the saint consecrated the wandering monk Burkard as the first bishop of Würzburg at this point and also installed the first bishops of Eichstätt and Büraburg there.

      The diocese of Würzburg supported the reconstruction plans. The initiator donated the building plot and prepared the laying of the foundation stone. King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who elevated Haxthausen to the rank of Bavarian count, appeared in person on July 12, 1841 to lay the foundation stone of the new castle chapel and raved about Salzburg. At the same time, this Salzburg Festival celebrated the 1,100th anniversary of the founding of the diocese.

      The first designs for the new castle chapel were drawn up by the Royal Bavarian Construction Office in Würzburg. The king actually preferred Gothic, which he viewed as the “only true German style.” The royal chief building officer August von Voit (of Salzburg) finally revised the designs in neo-Romanesque (Byzantine) forms under the influence of Friedrich von Gärtner.

      Construction management was entrusted to the Neustadt master mason and stonemason Michael Stapf (1814–1875; chairman of the “Patriotic Association”[2] founded in Würzburg in 1869). The Würzburg sculptor Andreas Halbig made the sculpture decoration. Financial difficulties and the death of the founder Werner von Haxthausen delayed the completion of the church, which could only be consecrated seven years after the foundation stone was laid on October 7th and 8th, 1848.
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        March 6, 2022

        The castle chapel of St. Bonifatius from 1848 is a small gem and was commissioned by Freiherr Werner von Haxthausen

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          October 16, 2021

          very nice chapel in Salzburg

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            August 26, 2021

            Nice trails.

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              May 20, 2024

              Beautiful chapel.. a candle for Opalein was also lit.

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                Location: Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Landkreis Rhön-Grabfeld, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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