St. Marien village chapel (Mannholz)

The St. Marien village chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in Mannholz , a district of the market town of Pleinfeld in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-161-76 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The chapel is not to be confused with the St. Marien village chapel in the Pleinfeld district of Kleinweingarten and the St. Marien village chapel in the Pleinfeld district of Gündersbach .

The chapel dedicated to Mary stands in the middle of the village opposite the Mannholz 16 estate at a height of 475 meters above sea ​​level . The sandstone building is a saddle roof construction with a turret .

A first chapel was demolished in 1805. The current building was built in 1873 by Georg Knörler. The inventory includes the statues of St. Sebastian and St. Wendelin .

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

• Location of the chapel in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dorfkapelle St. Marien , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on October 6, 2019).
2. ↑ Topographical Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas ). Retrieved October 6, 2019.
3. ^ Josef Lidl : Churches and chapels in and around Pleinfeld. Gunzenhausen 1987. p. 108.
4. ^ Josef Lidl : Churches and chapels in and around Pleinfeld. Gunzenhausen 1987. p. 109.

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 2.9 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 1.3 ″  E