Cemetery chapel (Klosterbeuren)
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The Roman Catholic cemetery chapel (also known as the death chapel or Gottesackerkapelle ) is located in Klosterbeuren , a district of Babenhausen , in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The small building is a listed building.
Building description
The chapel is located in the cemetery southeast of the Church of St. Ursus . It was built in 1625 and is a wide, short, three-sided building. It is covered with a hipped roof and a profiled cornice runs underneath. An arched door from the 18th century forms the entrance on the west side of the chapel. There are arched windows in the oblique axes.
Interior
Inside is a painted coffered ceiling from 1625. The individual fields of the coffered ceiling show a crucifixion group at the end of the choir , St. Clara on the left and St. Elisabeth on the right. The western and larger row of cassettes shows tendrils beginning from the north, Saint Michael, the alliance coat of arms of Veit Ernst von Rechberg zu Osterberg and his wife Barbara von Gemmingen († 1638). The alliance coat of arms is marked with a badly weathered inscription. It is still evident ... v. Rechberg born has ... had it painted. Saint Vitus is depicted in the following field, followed by tendrils in the adjoining narrow field.
The altar was made of wood in the middle of the 18th century. On the sarcophagus-shaped cafeteria there is a small crucifix and a framed picture of Our Lady, flanked by two small putti . Originally there was a winged altar in the chapel , which was marked 1458. This probably originated from the monastery church and had figures of the Mother of God, flanked by Saint Catherine and Saint Agnes. The wings were painted on both sides. In 1869 it was sold to Gürtler Rauner in Augsburg for 1000 florins .
A grave slab for Catharina Mayr († 1693) is attached to the inside of the north wall. C. Mayr was the widow of the high princely chamber councilor Marx Mayr from Augsburg. It was made from a limestone relief and is drilled at the top. There is an alliance coat of arms above the inscription and a crucifix above the crown. Four grave locking plates for nuns are embedded in the floor. These have engraved initials and the years 1689, 1700, 1717, 1728.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 598 .
- Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 157 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-115-25
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 54.7 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 20.1 ″ E