Kühtai court chapel

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Court chapel at the Kühtai hunting lodge

The Kühtai court chapel stands above the Kühtai hunting lodge near the Kühtaisattel in Kühtai in the municipality of Silz in Tyrol in Austria . The private chapel is dedicated to St. Martin and is a listed building .

history

The baroque chapel was probably built towards the end of the second half of the 17th century as part of a renovation of the Kühtai hunting lodge as a court chapel or private chapel. In 1958, a yoke was added to the south.

architecture

The two-and-a-half-bay wall with a three-sided choir closure has a shingle-covered hipped roof, on which a roof turret with an onion dome. The arched portal on the south side and the four window openings on the eaves are closed in a rounded arch. Inside, the square front yoke offers an open underside of the roof and opens with a round arch into the prayer room, which ends with a needle cap barrel over narrow pilasters with simple beams . The apse with the umbrella vault is set off by a flat belt arch . Stucco leaves on the vaulted strips, stucco rosettes in the crown of the vault.

Furnishing

The altar from 1717 shows the altarpiece Christ in the dungeon with white bevelled statuettes of the risen and Christ with a lance and shows the donation of the coat of St. Martin with the figurines Madonna and Christ. The baroque antependium shows the Madonna and St. Antony. The Stations of the Cross are from the beginning of the 19th century.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria: Dehio Tirol 1980 . Silz, Kapelle, in Kühtai, p. 737.

Individual evidence

  1. Franckenstein, Wiesauer: court chapel, chapel hl. Martin, Martinskapelle. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved April 16, 2015 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 50 ″  E