Chapel (Kettersbach)

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Chapel, south side

The chapel in Kettersbach is a path chapel . It belongs to the Roman Catholic parish of St. Vitus (Veitsaurach) in the Herrieden dean's office of the Eichstätt diocese .

The at the house no. 10 standing chapel was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Century built. It was mentioned by name for the first time in a cadastral sheet for Kettersbach from 1821. It is modeled on an aedicula , has a gable roof and is profiled with volutes on the front. On the south side it has an arched opening that is closed by cast iron doors. The interior has a barrel vault. On the north side there is a stand on which there was originally a wooden figure of Saint Sebastian , behind it a painting showing the Mother of God, to the left Nikolaus von Flüe, to the right Saint Florian.

In 1976 the Wimmer family, on whose ground the chapel stands, replaced the roof and repaired the damaged areas.

literature

  • Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 248 .
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 117 .
  • Ludwig Hefele: History of the parish Veitsaurach . Funk Druck, Eichstätt 1977, p. 56 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b G. P. Fehring, p. 117.
  2. a b L. Hefele, p. 56.

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 10.2 ″  E