Mücheln - Templerkapelle

Mücheln is part of the town of Wettin-Löbejün.

In 1269 the Counts of Brehna-Wettin gave the Knights Templar the right to patronize the Petrikirche in Wettin. The court in Mücheln was mentioned for the first time in 1270. The Counts of Brehna were very attached to the Knights Templar, Count Dietrich II even became a Knights Templar.

Archbishop Burchard III. von Magdeburg, as sovereign, gave the order in May 1308 to abolish all comings of the Templar Order in the archbishopric and to capture the Templars living there with their masters. The Knights Templar put up fierce resistance and many evaded arrest. At the Council of Vienne in 1312, the Knights Templar was formally abolished. In the Holy Roman Empire, however, they were allowed to live on as monks. Some of them were accepted into the Order of St. John. Burchard III. issued a power of attorney for the Order of St. John to take over the Templar estates for its diocese.

Whether the Müchelner Hof actually came into the possession of the Johanniter is not documented. The court was later mentioned as a priory of the Order of Regulated Canons.Contrary to expectations, it is thanks to the long profane use of the chapel (among other things as a storehouse and barn) that it has been preserved in its original Gothic architecture.

It's easy to carve graffiti into the walls of an abandoned chapel that no one cares about.