I happened to pass the Zopf Chapel on my drive to Östringen and came across an interesting story. The small chapel is located in the southwest of Östringen, a town in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg. The chapel, idyllically situated in the countryside, has a very special story to tell. It was the site where a girl was found murdered on June 8, 1725. A farmhand from the nearby grinding mill was arrested as a suspect. Although he protested his innocence, he was executed on November 10 at the Kislau prison. Later, however, it turned out that the verdict was a miscarriage of justice, which called for retribution. For this reason, in 1749, lawyer Peter Adam Zopf built a chapel at the site where the girl’s body was found, which was named after him. It was expanded in 1763, and he set up a foundation of 75 guilders to maintain it. On September 26, 1770, after seven years, the chapel was finally consecrated, Mass was allowed to be celebrated there, and it was handed over to the local pastor. The sanctuary was initially dedicated to the “Holy Family,” the “Heart of Jesus,” and, to this day, the “Holy Trinity.” Derived from the gold-framed image of the Holy Family inside, it was named the Jesus-Mary-Joseph Chapel. In 1897, the Joseph altar from the old parish church of St. Cecilia was installed in the chapel. From 1950 onwards, the chapel underwent extensive renovation. A copy of the painting of the Coronation of the Immaculate Conception by an artist from Bruchsal was placed on the high altar, the portal was fitted with a canopy, and the forecourt was laid out. Every Sunday at 3 p.m., a rose devotion takes place in the chapel. I was fascinated by the history of this little chapel. The real perpetrator of the murdered girl’s death was never found, and only this building, nestled in a green space, commemorates the fate of two people. This chapel exerted an inexplicable magic on me. It was beautiful to look at, surrounded by the still green winter landscape. Perhaps that is why the dead girl was laid to rest in this place, to find her final resting place in this particularly peaceful spot. Who knows why the unknown perpetrator chose this spot of all places. This unsolved murder case will remain a mystery forever, as will the question of why an uninvolved lawyer built such an expensive chapel. Was his ethos really that great, or did he have a guilty conscience? But what exactly happened back then and why two innocent people had to lose their lives remains a mystery. Life is an eternal mystery, and death remains a secret.
The Zopf Chapel: Mysterious discovery site of a murdered girl
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