page_title: St. Oswald's Chapel (Höllental)
section_title: Building
hierarchical_section_title: St. Oswald's Chapel (Höllental) / Building
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: St. Oswald im Höllental
context_page_description: St. Oswald’s Chapel lies in the Höllental in the High Black Forest, at its eastern end near the Ravenna Bridge. Administratively it lies in the civil parish of Steig in the municipality of Breitnau in the county of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Ecclesiastically it belongs to the parish of Hinterzarten. The chapel is dedicated to Oswald of Northumbria, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon king. He is depicted in several places on the main altar of the chapel..
context_section_description: The small rectangular choir space with its altar stone and the two stones of the side altar date to the Romanesque building consecrated in 1148, as does the eastern half of the south wall in which the herringbone work was executed. In the early 13th century a groin vaulted sacristy and an ossuary were added which may be looked into from the south side. The lintel above the sacristy door has the date 1208 carved in it in Arabic numbers. In the mid-14th century, the choir was extended to the north and, in the early 16th century, when the Oswald altar was brought into the church (see below), the four-panel tracery window was let into the east wall of the choir. Around 1674 the wooden tower was erected and around 1719 the building was extended to the west and north. In 1719 the walls were also raised and the nave was given a gallery supported on wooden columns. Above the west entrance under the date “1719” are 3 rows of capital letters that commemorate the patron of the extension. In the Second World War the chapel was damaged; the war damage was repaired in 1951/1952. On the south side of the nave is the sundial and, in a painted ‘’banderole’’ is the inscription “19 – Renov – 51”. On 7 June 1980, after the chapel had been burgled for the second time, a choir screen was fitted. The figures now in the church are copies, as indicated by a plaque in the choir room. This includes a copy of the crucifix on the north side of the nave, which had been carved in 1617 by Georg Hauser (died around 1653) from the eponymous woodcarving guild. In 1980 the chapel was also renovated.
caption: St. Oswald in winter
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