Mindelau cemetery chapel
The Mindelau cemetery chapel is located in the cemetery of Mindelau in Upper Swabia , a district of the city of Mindelheim .
location
The chapel stands south of the choir of the parish church of St. James the Elder .
history
It was built by his parents as a burial chapel for Franz Seitz, who died in 1858 at the age of only five. His father Xaver Seitz was an economist and mayor of Mindelau. The parents were later also buried in the chapel. Today it serves as a morgue .
description
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The chapel is a square central building in Romanesque forms in the succession of Friedrich von Gärtner . At each corner there are two flat, stepped buttresses that are at right angles to each other . On each side there is a high arched panel with two arched windows at the bottom and a circular window at the top in the wall. Each side has a flat gable with ribbon cornices on the slopes; the roof over the central gable has a cross in the middle. The interior is closed off by a groin vault . In the corners there are round services with capitals and large arched panels on the four sides.
Furnishing
Above a small neo-Romanesque cafeteria altar made of stone on the south wall is a round-arched painting of the Risen One on sheet metal, inscribed 1873 Fer. Wagner . The walls and the vault are decorated with decorative paintings. To the left and right of the altar there are large windows with stained glass of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Francis Xavier . The other windows are ornamentally glazed.
Three portraits in oil on canvas of the Seitz family, who are buried in the chapel, were created around 1858. A crypt slab in the floor made of white marble bears the vital dates of the founder, his wife and his son. It is signed on the lower left with E. Bachman , the name of a stonemason from Mindelheim.
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 229-230 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 26.9 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E