Field church

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A field church or field chapel (corridor chapel) was built away from the settlements. While larger churches often served as a parish church for a wide area of ​​villages, field churches and chapels were more often targets or stations of pilgrimages and processions .

Examples

As a rule, the place names Feldkirch and Feldkirchen are derived from the existence of such a field church.

See also

Wiktionary: Feldkapelle  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Wegkapelle  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: Chapel shrine  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Quote: after Ernst Christmann: Flurskapelle in Ulmet