Besenkapelle (Kempten)
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The Besenkapelle is a listed small church building of the Catholics on Memminger Straße in Kempten, built around 1740 for Franz Georg Hermann . Hermann's house, known as the Catholic Orphanage , is right next to the chapel. The pilaster- structured building faces east-west and has an oval pendentive dome .
The chapel is located on the property at Memminger Strasse 61 .
On the west gable front , between corner lenses under a cornice, there is the arched entrance to a short, flat-roofed vestibule with arched arcade . The main room, which has just been closed, has a raised ledge at the side, which is disturbed by oval windows. The longitudinal oval dome rests on pendentives . The fresco from 1928 shows the Holy Family . It was created by Siegfried Boeck.
The altar dates from the late 19th century and is decorated with a painting. This depicts Christ as a child friend and comes from Johannes B. Kaspar from 1860.
The chapel got its name because brushwood brooms were sacrificed as a symbol of purification in the hope of being cleared of boils and ulcers .
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich-Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 570 .
- ^ A b Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 23.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 59.3 " N , 10 ° 18 ′ 37.4" E