Ölbergkapelle (Weinried)

Mount of Olives Chapel

The Ölbergkapelle is located in Weinried , a district of the Oberschönegg municipality in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The listed chapel is a building from the 18th century on the south side of the cemetery of the parish church of St. Laurentius and Vitus .

The Ölbergkapelle consists of a transverse rectangular housing with a profiled belt and eaves cornice . It is covered with a gable roof . There is a semicircular niche on the north side of the chapel . In this one on both sides convex projecting and flat curved tongue wall is used. A wooden insert, painted in perspective, with a arched opening flanked by columns is inserted into this. On the pedestal is the depiction of the body of Jesus Christ between guards. The barrel-vaulted niche on the upper floor contains a group of figures made of clay from the late 17th century.

literature

• Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 223 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-184-13

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 49.4 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 17.3 ″  E