Chapel Griesen

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The Roman Catholic chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district of Griesen in the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen is part of the parish of St. Martin Garmisch and belongs to the Werdenfels deanery of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . The church is a listed building .

location

The chapel stands on the north-western outskirts of Griesen on the left bank of the Neidernach on a small hill. The southern border of the Ammergebirge nature reserve runs nearby.

history

Plans to build a chapel in Griesen were first reported in early 1909. At the end of February of the same year, the Garmisch church administration decided to assume the construction costs and founded the "Griesen Chapel Fund". On June 8, 1909, however, the Chamber of the Interior of the Government of Upper Bavaria refused to approve the construction because the plans by the Garmisch architect Johann Ostler were "externally unsatisfactory". The competent Garmisch pastor Pölzl then asked the Association for Folk Art and Folklore for new designs. The Munich architect Heinrich Neu and the Weilheim government master builder Karl Oberländer submitted their construction plans, and ultimately the decision was made for Neus variant, which was made by Prince Regent Luitpold on June 11, 1910 . The chapel was consecrated on July 2, 1911, the patronage festival of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary .

A spruce wood floor was probably installed in the 1970s, which was removed again in 2011.

In 2004 the roof was covered with new wooden shingles. An extensive exterior renovation took place in 2009 and the interior was also renewed in 2011.

Description and equipment

The ground floor chapel is east and has a hipped roof . Then a sitting skylights in bulb shape . The soil consists of Solnhofen limestone .

On the left and right side walls there are two round stained glass windows that symbolically represent the “fruit of the Holy Spirit” (dove) and the Christian virtues of faith, love and hope (cross, heart, anchor).

The altarpiece shows the Madonna and Child - a copied section from Anthony van Dyck's Rest on the Flight into Egypt , which the painter Knop created in 1910.

Above the entrance is a copy of a picture from the " Sistine Madonna ".

literature

  • Parish of St. Martin, Garmisch (ed.): 100 years of the chapel in Griesen Mariä Visitation . Festschrift. Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments for Garmisch-Partenkirchen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. S. 20. Accessed March 22, 2020.
  2. ↑ Sabine Buttinger: Building a field chapel in Griesen . In: Parish of St. Martin, Garmisch (ed.): 100 years of the chapel in Griesen, Mariä Visitation . Festschrift. Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011, p. 5-11 .
  3. ↑ a b c Wolfgang Utz: Interior renovation of the Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Griesen . In: Parish of St. Martin, Garmisch (ed.): 100 years of the chapel in Griesen, Mariä Visitation . Festschrift. Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011, p. 12-15 .
  4. ↑ a b c Parish of St. Martin, Garmisch (ed.): 100 years of the chapel in Griesen, Mariä Visitation . Festschrift. Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011.

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 26.3 ″  E