Cemetery chapel (Affing)

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Cemetery chapel in Affing

The Catholic cemetery chapel in Affing , a municipality in the Swabian district of Aichach-Friedberg , was built in 1833. The chapel is a protected architectural monument .

history

In 1833 the barons of Gravenreuth had the cemetery chapel built as the family's crypt chapel . On September 19, 1833 was the Augsburg Bishop Ignaz Albert of Riegg ordained .

architecture

The building, built according to the plans of the architect Johann Michael Voit , has a single nave and faces south. It has a barrel vault and closes with a semicircular apse . On the gable roof sits a roof turret with a hood , which is crowned by a roof knob with a cross.

Tombs

In the apse niches are the tombs for Karl Ernst von Gravenreuth and Eleonore von Gravenreuth († 1832) with portrait busts of Johann Halbig from 1858.

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedhofskapelle Affing  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '13.7 "  N , 10 ° 59' 5.3"  E