In the Advent season, the Tölzer Kurier takes a look behind a door in the district that is normally closed to the public in every issue.
Today: The crypt under the Hohenburg castle chapel.
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The crypt below the castle chapel is notorious among the students of Hohenburg.
What is hidden in it?
Only when you walk around the altar does a gray-silver door become visible, behind which an old stairway snakes its way into the cellar.
No light penetrates the room from outside.
The cellar smell has dug into the walls.
No wonder, after all, the chapel with its underground crypt was built in 1715, when the Hörwarth family was buried.
“In the end, nothing came of it,” says Johannes Janßen, caretaker at Hohenburg Castle.
“The members were buried in the parish church in Lenggries.” Nevertheless, visitors came to the crypt regularly until the 19th century.
The walls were used especially for sacrificial tours.
"The two narrow staircases made the tour 'round'," says Janßen.
“People could virtually go down one flight of stairs and up the other.” Three altars adorn the sides of the crypt.
One is between the two spiral staircases, the other two are located in small indentations on the side.
“The altar in front between the stairways is the 'Maria Annunciation Altar',” explains Janßen.
The altar on the right is called "Trinity Altar".
On the left is the "Joseph Altar."
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The crypt itself is unadorned.
It was laid out as a family burial site in 1715, but was never used as such.
Because thick heating pipes run through the room, it is not that cold despite the vaulted cellar.
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The crypt is otherwise empty.
There is only a single table in the far right corner.
Thick heating pipes run along the ceiling.
“They were probably moved between the world wars.
That's why it's probably much warmer down here now than it used to be. "
Today you can only rarely visit the crypt.
“Because of the lack of escape routes in the event of a fire,” says Janßen.
When you climb up, the doors close again.
The myth and history of the crypt will probably remain in the future.
It would be a shame if not.
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