Herrgottsruhkapelle (Mindelheim)
The Roman Catholic Herrgottsruhkapelle in Mindelheim in the Unterallgäu district ( Bavaria ) was built at the beginning of the 18th century and is a listed building. The chapel building is halfway up the Katharinenberg on Memminger Strasse.
history
Before the chapel was built in 1718, there was a wayside shrine with a figure of the Lord's Rest at this point . The St. Sebastian beneficiary Johann Hörmele (Hermele) had the still existing chapel built. The building was renovated in the years 1850 and 1954 to 1957.
description
The building is designed as a longitudinal oval construction, which is oriented to the south. Inside and outside the chapel is divided by partly red marbled Tuscan pilasters . The pilasters decorated with entablature elements result in eight axes , the central axes of which are wider on the long sides. There are no pilasters on the sides of the altar. Inside is a flat, troughed vault with eight stitch caps over semicircular shield arches. Retracted arched windows are always present in the diagonal axes. The floor is covered with square slabs of Solnhofen limestone . The clapboard roof of the chapel is conically rounded on the narrow sides. The hexagonal open roof turret with onion dome rises above the ridge . Access to the chapel is through an arched door in the northern part. In front of it is the square and flat sign . There is a round arch arcade on three sides. The sign is covered with a hipped roof over the carnies cornice . The relief made of shell limestone depicting the resurrection of Christ on the central axis of the east side was created in 1964 by Georg Bayer. In its place, a weathered fresco of a crucifixion group from the construction period was uncovered in 1904 . A sacristan's house is built on the west side. This two-storey saddle roof structure was renewed.
Furnishing
The stucco of the chapel is limited to painting frames and dates from 1718. In the crown of the vault there is a tail field in the middle and tetradiform fields in the north and south. Smaller tail fields are in the spandrels. Georg Schwank from Mindelheim created the frescoes inside in 1957 . They follow the remains of the original pictures from 1718. In the middle is the eye of God with four angel heads, to the south of it the Jesus monogram and to the north of it the Marian monogram . The gussets on the side show putti with the instruments of Christ's passion. Above the door in a gusset there is a restoration inscription from 1957.
The altar was made of wood in the middle of the 18th century. It is marbled pink, red and gray and decorated with gold decoration. The stipes are polygonal on three sides, concave in the lower area and convex in the upper area. The altar structure is concave-convex-concave and divided into three axes by pilasters decorated with rocailles. In the central arched niche, the broad central axis shows the wooden figure of the Savior resting from the beginning of the 18th century. The arched niche is framed by a drapery with lambrequins . In front of the inner pilasters, two cantilever pillars rise up. In the outer axes, the wooden figures of St. Nicodemus on the left and St. Joseph of Arimathea on the right are placed in flat panels . Both figures date from around 1750. The altar is completed by a richly cranked cornice. The half- length figure of God the Father in a ray of glory is attached to the altar extension, which is delimited by two volutes .
The communion bench with its small, curved square balusters dates from the time it was built. Both the foot and top plates are modern. The stalls come from the same period and are made of oak like the communion bench . The tail cheeks of the stalls are decorated with spiral acanthus carvings, the parapets are paneled.
The two semicircular paintings in the chapel are from the early 18th century and are painted on canvas. They are inserted into the arches of the central axes in the east and west. The two multi-figurative representations show the Passion Sequence to the east , whereby all the scenes can be seen in a large architectural context. The Last Judgment can be seen to the west , divided into horizontal zones. Below is hell with purgatory , above the resurrection of the dead and at the top the heavenly sphere.
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 740 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 301-302 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-173-114
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 39.6 ″ E