Ellmeney mountain chapel
The Bergkapelle Ellmeney is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Ellmeney district of the city of Leutkirch in the Allgäu .
description
The chapel is located between Leutkirch and Isny about one and a half kilometers east of Rimpach. The hamlet of Ellmeney is located in the middle of the Adelegg forest . Today's chapel is a half-timbered building . The entrance to the chapel is through the choir. The year 1736 is written on the arch of the choir. The main altar with a Scourge Savior and the two side altars are made in the Baroque style. Oil paintings depict two saints with the attributes of their martyrdoms: St. Dionysius with the severed head and St. Erasmus coiling his bowels on a winch.
A visit to the chapel combined with prayers to the saints should, according to popular piety , lead to healing or at least the relief of headaches , intestinal and abdominal complaints.
literature
- Manfred Thierer / Ursula Rückgauer: Places of silence: The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 231-232 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thierer / Rückgauer p. 232
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '38.3 " N , 10 ° 5' 23.3" E