Trinity Chapel (Kempten)

Trinity Chapel in Kempten

The Roman Catholic Trinity Chapel is a small, listed chapel in the Steufzgen district on the western edge of the city of Kempten (Allgäu) . The chapel was built around 1735.

description

The Trinity Chapel is a late Baroque building with a retracted polygonal choir and an attached sacristy in the southern corner of the choir. The nave corresponds to two arched window axes from around 1735, the choir, which is closed on three sides according to an arched window axis, is essentially older.

The pressed barrel vault stands over a profile cornice with a segmented arched choir arch . Under the gallery in the branch arch niche is the wicker arched west exit. A square roof turret rests on the roof .

Furnishing

Stucco and fresco

The stucco in the chapel is from 1735; it is a simple bandwork with grid fields and flower hangings around two empty, once frescoed frame fields. In the corners there are banded cartouches with frescoes of the four evangelists in grisaille . These frescoes are modernly renewed. Above the chancel arch is the eye of God stuccoed.

altar

The chapel has an altar from around 1860. The altar sheet of the time shows the Trinity and is signed L. Weiß . Saints Gallus and Magnus are depicted on the side of the consoles . In the nave is a wooden altarpiece in simple style from the 18th century with the Trinity.

literature

• Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 68.

Web links

Commons : Trinity Chapel  - collection of images

• Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-63-000-281

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 35.8 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 53.2 ″  E