Chapel of St. Margaretha in Pians

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The chapel from the north

The chapel of St. Margaretha is located in the municipality and Roman Catholic parish of Pians in Tyrol .

The chapel is raised to the east of Pians. The Gothic chapel with a slightly retracted, polygonal choir and a wooden roof turret with a gable-pointed helmet was built around 1500 and is covered with wooden shingles. At the corners of the choir are triangular pilaster strips with pyramid roofs. The west portal has a fluted pointed arch, the north portal a shoulder arch; above a fresco with Mariahilf and Margaretha and Katharina from the middle of the 18th century.

The two-bay nave and the choir with a five- eighth end are vaulted with a ribbed vault on consoles with round keystones, the triumphal arch is pointed. Gothic wall paintings from 1410 were uncovered in 1911. In the choir they show Christ in the mandorla, the four church fathers and evangelists, the keystone shows the coat of arms of the diocese of Brixen . The arched walls show the apostles in rich throne architecture, including a number of prophets as half-figures. Saints are depicted in the eastern window reveal. The triumphal arch wall of the choir shows Christ and Satan as gardeners, in the reveal the wise and foolish virgins, including Saints George and Florian. The triumphal arch wall of the nave shows the Annunciation and the Gregory mass.

Michael Lechleitner created the altar with the figures, documented in 1648 . The altarpiece "Mary with Child" is from the 1st half of the 17th century. The station pictures with 1736 and 1737 are by Johann Paul Scheiber. Brass crosses in the bottom are marked 1769 and 1773.

There is a bell by Alexander Löffler from 1539 and a bell by Hans Christof Löffler from 1562.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 50.6 ″  E