Field Chapel (Mindelheim)
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The field chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel in Mindelheim, Upper Swabia .
history
The chapel was first mentioned in 1314 and is located at the Untere Ziegelhütte on the road to Westernach . The current building dates from 1846 and was consecrated on August 24, 1846. The neo-Romanesque building was built by the then owner of the brick kiln at his own expense.
architecture
The choir consists of five octagonal sides and has a semicircular closed arch. In the outermost side axes of the choir and in the nave there are arched windows. An arched door is let into the wall in the west. The flat ceilings are over throats. There is a four-pass opening in the west gable . Above the gable is an octagonal roof turret with a pointed helmet with arched openings on the wider main sides.
Furnishing
The two paintings date from the middle of the 18th century and show Mary with the Holy Spirit in her hands and a good shepherd.
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 310 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 43.2 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 33.8 ″ E