Johann Nepomuk Monument (Gnotzheim)

The monument, general view

The Johann Nepomuk monument is a figure of St. John Nepomuk in Gnotzheim , a market town in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-133-13 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.

The memorial is located directly at the junction from Spielberger Strasse into Bundesstrasse 466 directly on Gnotzheimer Marktplatz between the Marktplatz 6 and 7 properties at a height of 455 meters above sea ​​level .

The figure of the saint shows Nepomuk kneeling on a pedestal under an open canopy supported by three pillars, surrounded by a wall. The memorial was created around 1730/50.

literature

• Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 312 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Nepomuk Monument (Gnotzheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location of the statue in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Johann Nepomuk Monument , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on April 14, 2020).
2. ↑ Topographical Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas ). Retrieved April 14, 2020.
3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia . 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , p. 312.

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 33.5 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 49.1 ″  E