Ecce Homo Chapel (Niederraunau)
The Catholic Ecce Homo Chapel or Leonhard Chapel in Niederraunau was built in 1727/28 and expanded in 1780.
The pilgrimage chapel is located in the part of Niederraunau west of the Kammel on the road to Hohenraunau .
Building description
The two construction phases can be clearly seen on the outside of the chapel, as the choir and the two adjacent window axes - from the first construction phase (1727/28) - are structured by pilasters in a Doric order. The two window axes of the extension built in 1780, on which there is a roof turret, are, however, not structured.
The interior of the room, which is very high for its size, is structured by the partly stuccoed, partly painted Corinthian pilasters and obelisks, which continue the vaults. These early classicist paintings are by Jakob Fröschle . The baroque altar from 1780 with the larger than life figure of Ecce homo , possibly by Christoph Rodt , dominates the interior of the chapel. The widely presented columns of the altar are supposed to represent the temple in which Jesus was presented. To the right and left of Ecce homo there were originally figures of Pilate and Longinus in the altar. After these were sold in 1882, the former side figures, a figure of St. Leonhard - hence the Leonhard chapel - and one of St. Wendelin.
Others
The extension of the Ecce Homo Chapel was possibly created as a result of the enlargement of the field chapel in the neighboring town of Krumbach that had been realized a few years earlier , which made the pilgrimage to the latter more attractive. In the previous decades, the local lords of Niederraunau tried to hinder and prevent the pilgrimage to this chapel near Krumbach as well and for as long as possible. They feared that their own pilgrimage chapel could bring less income if there was also a pilgrimage to a chapel in the neighboring village. The magnificent design and expansion of the chapel was therefore possibly just to lure the pilgrims back to the Niederraunau chapel.
literature
- Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 336 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 12 " N , 10 ° 22 ′ 33.6" E