Josefskapelle (Zeil Castle)

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Josefskapelle (2017)

The Josefskapelle (also St. Joseph's Chapel ) is a wooden chapel built in 1858 on the Zeil Castle district , part of Leutkirch in the Allgäu .

description

The easted chapel is about 1.5 kilometers northeast of the Renaissance palace complex in the St. Josef forest area of ​​the same name. Along the way to the chapel, a way of the cross with clay reliefs by Baroness Anna von Wambold was laid out in 1960 . The chapel is an open wooden chapel with a figure of Saint Joseph in the middle . There is a knee bench in front of the figure of the saint .

The inscription on the base says that the figure was donated by Princess Maximiliane von Waldburg-Zeil in 1858 on the occasion of her silver wedding anniversary with Prince Constantin von Waldburg-Zeil .

literature

  • Manfred Thierer / Ursula Rückgauer: Places of silence: The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 212-213 .
  • Manfred Thierer: Around Zeil Castle , themed trails in Allgäu in Württemberg, Leutkirch o. J., PDF, p. 12

Web links

Commons : Josefskapelle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Photo of the panel of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Heimatpflege im Wuerttemberg Allgäu eV, accessed on March 19, 2017, February 25, 2017

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 28.72 "  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 59.63"  E