Wayside shrine (Kirchheim in Swabia)

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Wayside shrine between Kirchheim in Swabia and Spöck

The wayside shrine in Kirchheim in Swabia is located southeast of the village on the road to Spöck in the Unterallgäu district ( Bavaria ). The wayside shrine , which is under monument protection, was built in 1896 by Count Carl Ernst Fugger von Glött .

history

Originally there was a cross from 1728 in memory of a Jesuit mission in 1726 in the nearby English Greetings Chapel at the site of today's wayside shrine . Later a small chapel was built with a figure of St. Francis Xavier . The chapel was demolished in 1896 by Count Carl Ernst Fugger von Glött and the wayside shrine was erected in the same year.

description

The neo-Gothic wayside shrine is made of sandstone . Both the pillar and the wider housing on it are three-sided. The three niches of the housing are arched and bordered by columns at the corners. The top of the wayside shrine is closed with a pointed helmet . Only two of the three niches are open, the third niche is covered with a slab of white marble . The two niches originally contained the figures of St. Joseph and Francis Xavier . On the closed niche is the inscription erected / on March 19, 1897 / by / Carl Ernst Graf / Fugger Glött .

  • Wayside shrine with a linden tree in the background

  • Side view of the wayside shrine

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 190 .

Web links

Commons : wayside shrine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry D-7-78-158-20.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 8 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 15 ″  E