Johannes Nepomuk Chapel (Gaal)

Nepomuk Chapel in front of Wasserberg Castle in Gaal

The Johannes Nepomuk Chapel is a path chapel in the municipality of Gaal in the Murtal district in Styria . It is a listed building .

history

The baroque chapel dedicated to St. Johannes Nepomuk stands in front of Wasserberg Castle . It is dedicated to the way and bridge saint of ancient Austria Johannes Nepomuk. The exact date of construction is unknown. It has a semicircle, a triangular gable and a baroque wrought iron grille. The statue of the saint dates from the 3rd quarter of the 18th century. On the outside there are paintings with saints in rococo frames from the same period.

The listed chapel was renovated in 2013.

Source and literature

Meinhard Brunner, Walter Brunner , Odo Burböck, Franz Jäger: Gaal. History of the habitat and its inhabitants . Gaal 2000
Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn (Ed.): Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz) . Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 603 .

Individual evidence

^ Walter Brunner, Odo Burböck: Gaal. History of the habitat and its inhabitants . Ed .: Walter Brunner. Self-published local community Gaal, 2000, p. 496 .

47.269906 14.686692Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 11.7 " N , 14 ° 41 ′ 12.1" E

[1] Walter Brunner, Odo Burböck: Gaal. History of the habitat and its inhabitants . Ed .: Walter Brunner. Self-published local community Gaal, 2000, p. 496 .