Apollonia Chapel (Niedermauern)
The Apollonia Chapel is a chapel in Niedermauern in the municipality of Virgen in East Tyrol . It is located on a small green area in the middle of low walls and is dedicated to St. Apollonia . It is a listed building .
Building
The chapel was built in 1783 and renovated for the first time in 1823. In 1915 it was decorated with paintings by Joseph Weiskopf.
The chapel has a rectangular floor plan with a polygonal end, the entrance on the east-facing gable wall, a rectangular portal with a shingle-covered pent roof. In the gable area there is a lunette window as well as a viewing window on the north side accessed by a flat staircase. The roof was designed as a steep, eternit-covered gable roof with a hexagonal roof turret. The roof turret has ogival sound openings and a curved tent roof crowned by a cross. The plastered and white painted longitudinal walls with a framed fine plaster structure have two or one segment-arched windows with wrought-iron grids.
Next to the chapel is a crucifix with Our Lady of Sorrows, titulus and cross box from the 19th century. The polychrome, wooden figures are smaller than life. The crucified is shown muscular and with distinctive facial features, the Mother of Sorrows praying at the foot of the cross with a sword in her chest.
The interior of the chapel is barrel vaulted, the polygon of the apse is rounded. In 1915 Joseph Weiskopf carried out depictions of the evangelists floating on clouds in the vault. Above the entrance portal there is an inscription cartouche with an intercession relating to the First World War.
On the altar from the beginning of the 19th century there is an altarpiece with the Holy Trinity. In the excerpt there is a representation of St. Appolonia, the top painting shows the Last Supper. In addition, the altar has an attachment figure of the risen one.
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): The art monuments of the political district of Lienz. Part III. Iseltal, Defereggental, Kalsertal, Virgental. Verlag Berger, Horn 2007 ISBN 978-3-85028-448-6 (Austrian Art Topography, Volume LVII), p. 462
- Louis Oberwalder : Virgen in the Hohe Tauern National Park. Edition Löwenzahn, Innsbruck 1999, ISBN 3-7066-2197-5
- Meinrad Pizzinini: East Tyrol. The Lienz district. His works of art, historical forms of life and settlement. Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1974 (Austrian Art Monographs, Vol. VII) ISBN 3-900173-17-6
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Coordinates: 47 ° 0 ′ 1.3 ″ N , 12 ° 26 ′ 27.5 ″ E