Chapel of St. Josef (Wurmansau)
The St. Josef Chapel is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Wurmansau , a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Saulgrub . The chapel is consecrated to St. Joseph and St. Bishop Konrad von Konstanz . The building is registered as a monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments .
location
The chapel is located in the historic center of Wurmansau in a small green area on the Alte Römerstraße about 75 meters north of the Ammertalerhof. Their orientation deviates from the ideal east by about 5 degrees to the south. A stream flows past south of the chapel.
history
The hamlet of Wurmansau at that time already had its own prayer chapel in the 18th century, because the way to Unterammergau, to which Wurmansau was officially subordinated at the time, was very long. After several previous buildings, the building that still exists today was erected in 1779.
Exterior
The chapel is about 9 meters long and about 6 meters wide. It has a round apse on its east side and has a gable roof . On the west side of the roof sits a ridge turret with an onion helmet .
Interior
Inside the chapel is a single-nave hall structure. The ceiling fresco by the Oberammergau painter Franz Seraph Zwinck depicts the marriage of Mary (mother of Jesus) and Joseph.
The reredos of the high altar in the apse is framed by columns and pilasters. The altarpiece shows St. Joseph. The capitals of the two outer pilasters carry vases. On both sides of the high altar there is a figure of a saint on a console.
A picture on the north wall shows St. Conrad. A large crucifix hangs across from him on the south wall . A Way of the Cross is also hung there.
literature
- Hans Pörnbacher: The chapel in Wurmansau . In: Churches and chapels of the Altenau Curate in the Parish Association of Bad Kohlgrub . Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-96018-023-4 .
Web links
- Altenau on the website of the Parish Association of Bad Kohlgrub
- St. Josef, Wurmansau on www.schwabenmedia.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Saulgrub (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on September 1, 2019, monument number D-1-80-129-18
Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 42.2 " N , 11 ° 1 ′ 41.6" E