Cross Chapel in the Seminary

The episcopal seminary has more than 450 years of tradition and history in its buildings. Established in 1564 as the "Collegium Willibaldinum," the seminary served as a secondary school and college of the Jesuit order from 1614 to 1783, and from around 1840, it was a boys' seminary and a lyceum. The precursor to the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the seminary has been used for centuries as both a boarding school and an academic training center for future priests.

From 1981 to 1984, the predominantly high- to late-Baroque buildings were expanded southward according to plans by the diocesan building office under the direction of Karljosef Schattner. The three-winged residential and study center encloses a courtyard in a cloister-like manner, with the Kreuzkapelle (Cross Chapel) at the heart of the complex. In this simple, square space lit almost exclusively by indirect sunlight, the focus is drawn to the altar area in the southern corner. With this distinctive layout, the chapel elicits a noticeably meditative atmosphere.

(Text: Claudia Grund; Translation: Amanda Markwick)

Kreuzkapelle im Priesterseminar
access via Seminarweg 3
85072 Eichstätt

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