Bärnstatt Chapel

Interior view of the Bärnstatt Chapel

The Bärnstatt Chapel for the Suffering Savior is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel in Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser on the road to the Hintersteiner See . The building is a listed building ( list entry ).

history

The small niche shrine southeast of the chapel was built in 1693 and served as the original place of prayer on the Bärnstatt. The pilgrimage chapel was then built in 1763–1765. In 1765 the miraculous image was transferred to the new chapel. The Stations of the Cross are from 1767 .

For centuries, people from near and far found consolation and help in the Bärnstatt Chapel. Numerous votive tablets in the church bear testimony to this.

In 1954 the outside of the chapel was renovated. In 1994 the gallery was installed and the interior renovated.

Building description

The chapel has a rectangular floor plan with a recessed choir in a polygonal shape . The roof is steep, covered with wooden shingles and has a wooden roof turret with an onion hood. At the front of the choir is the sacristy extension with a hipped roof . There are large, arched windows in the long walls of the chapel. The gable facade in the southwest with a round arched portal, the reveal with wedge and arch stone on the plaster frame. Flanking two viewing windows, in the gable field a segmented entrance opening to the roof structure.

The interior has a flat dome with double pilasters. The choir has a square vault. Vault paintings with depictions of miraculous healings by Jesus , the Assumption of Mary , St. John the Baptist and the four Doctors of the Church .