Field church
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
- Field Church (Aichelberg) in Aichwald
- Field Chapel (Anhofen)
- Field Church (Beerbach) in Beerbach (Lauf an der Pegnitz)
- Denkreuther Feldkapelle
- Field Chapel (Ettlishofen)
- Field church (St. Ulrich and St. Afra) in Füssen , builder Johann Georg Fischer
- Field chapel (Loppenhausen) , Swabia
- Feldkapelle (market forest) , Unterallgäu, Bavaria
- Field Church (Neuwied) , Middle Rhine
- St. Mariae (Reichenbach) , Upper Franconia
- Field chapel (Sennhof) , Unterallgäu
- Field chapel on the road to Großkissendorf (Silheim)
- Field Chapel (Vinn) , North Rhine-Westphalia
- Field chapel (Volkach) , Lower Franconia
- Brother Klaus field chapel (Wachendorf) , architect Peter Zumthor
- Field chapel on the B300 (Winterrieden)
- Field chapel on Babenhauser Strasse (Winterrieden)
- Field Church (Woltersdorf) in Woltersdorf (Wendland)
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
- ↑ Quote: after Ernst Christmann: Flurskapelle in Ulmet