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Barbarakapelle Ruins

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Barbarakapelle Ruins

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    December 20, 2018

    The Barbarakapelle is located on Klausenweg in the Dippoldiswalder Heide, and bears the name of the patron saint of miners. Originally it was named as Klausenkirche. The lord of the castle Sigismund von Maltitz, who owned Dippoldiswalde, had this chapel built around 1500 (he himself died in 1525). It served as a polling place for the polling drivers from Dippoldiswalde to Altzella. In 1539 the brother of the builder, Bishop Johann VIII von Maltitz, had it destroyed out of concern about secret meetings of the supporters of the Reformation after the last chaplain had called the miners to Reformed worship. According to a legend, the church servant Antonius lived in a hermitage above the Antonius fountain next to the chapel. The Barber River rises from the latter well and flows into the Oelsabach below.

    In 1814 August Schumann reported in his Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony, "On the way to the village of Oelsa, in the middle of the forest, 6 ells high and 1 ½ ells thick walls are the ruins of a chapel of St. Barbara"

    The nave is 13 meters wide and 16 meters long, which is connected to the east by the altar room with the dimensions of 6.60 meters. The artillery Lieutenant Otto Rothmaler made a first drawing of the chapel in 1856, and in 1881 it was partially rebuilt. The altar of the chapel was taken by the Maltitzers to Bohemia in 1539, which recent historical research found out. The Gothic curtain window in the chancel has been preserved as a remnant of the structural decoration. Today a service takes place in this simple chapel every year on Ascension Day.

    Source: seifersdorf.de

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      January 5, 2020

      The chapels are dedicated to Saint Barbara of Nicomedia, the patron saint of miners.

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        December 13, 2020

        There is nothing to add, except: a mysterious, legendary place.
        A chapel in the middle of the forest!

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