The enterprising Stechinelli was appointed in 1678 General Postmaster-General of the Guelph Principalities. Emperor Leopold I raised the Capellini family in 1688 in the hereditary imperial nobility, with the name of Wickenburg. Stechinelli owned, in addition to many other buildings and estates, in Wieckenberg a baroque pleasure garden estate as a summer residence, of which today a gate and a baroque fountain are preserved. Duke Georg Wilhelm of Brunswick-Lüneburg allowed him to build a (Catholic) church here, but made it a condition that she should not be recognized as a place of worship at first sight. The construction of the chapel in the style of a farmhouse began in 1692. The chapel was consecrated in 1699. Stechinelli had already died in 1694. At his request, the building was then used as a Protestant church.

In the years 1911, 1992 and last time in 2008 extensive restorations took place.

The chapel is now part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. Since October 2008 she is station on the Jakobusweg Lüneburger Heide.

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