Chapel to the 14 helpers in need (Apfeltrach)
The chapel to the 14 helpers in need is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Upper Swabian Apfeltrach . It stands about half a kilometer east of the village on the south side of the road to Mindelau.
history
The chapel was built from 1628 to 1634 on a plague cemetery. According to the inscription on a votive tablet , it is a building from 1660, which was renovated, enlarged and decorated in 1718. According to a file in the Ordinariate Archive Augsburg, the chapel was raised in 1718 and a wooden "foreshadowing" was rebuilt. The forward move is likely to be the nave. This was not massively expanded until around 1830.
Building description
The rectangular, recessed choir has a groined vault and side arched windows. The choir arch is also round. The flat-roofed nave has a round arched window in the eastern part of the longitudinal walls. There is a rectangular door in the west. The facade is divided on the longitudinal walls of the nave in two axes by pilaster strips , which are connected by narrow plaster strips under the eaves . On the ridge above the west gable is a sheet metal clad wooden roof turret with a tent roof .
Furnishing
The altar in late classicist forms made of red and blue-gray marbled wood from around 1830 has a block-shaped stipes . In the middle of the structure with two pilasters there is an arched, closed altarpiece in oil on wood. It was painted around 1718 and shows the 14 helpers in need. It is labeled “I. Frey ... 1183 .... “signed. Next to the pilasters and in the arch above the painting there are five small oval pictures of the Stations of the Cross. A total of 15 stations of the cross at the altar were created around 1830. Two small round-arched oil paintings on canvas from the 18th or 19th century on the cafeteria show Saints Ignatius and Franz Xavier in a carved frame in the shape of an aedicle .
In the chapel hangs a bust of Mater Dolorosa from the 18th century. Outside at the end of the choir there is a crucifix with a small body , which was made in the first half of the 19th century. A rectangular votive picture on wood with rounded upper corners shows the Virgin Mary as a half- length figure, her cloak held by two angels and bears the inscription “This is the original picture of the previous chapels, built by the Aichelian Freindschäft in 1660 / by Mr. Michael Newmayr Camerer and pastor Kirchdorff renewed, enlarged and withdrawn. Cuisu Anima Vivat Deo Creatori Suo ”.
Field cross
To the east of the chapel there is a field cross, according to the inscription, erected in 1906 on the site of the plague cemetery.
Web links
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 45 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 20.1 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 14 ″ E