Dungeon Chapel (Stockheim)

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Dungeon chapel in Stockheim
inside view

The Roman Catholic prison chapel in Stockheim , Upper Swabia , a district of Bad Wörishofen , is northwest of the cemetery on the road to Bad Wörishofen. The small building was built in the 18th century and faces south. It has a rectangular floor plan with a recessed apse and a cornice cornice . On the north side there is a round arched door, which is flanked by pilaster strips . The triangular gable is framed with carnies cornices. The interior has a groin vault . In a round-arched, semicircular dungeon niche in the south part with a wooden lattice and balustrade there is a wooden figure of the dungeon savior , kneeling with one leg. It was created around the middle of the 18th century. Arched dazzle on the two side walls bear paintings on tin from the second half of the 19th century with St. Wendelin and Leonhard .

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1971, ZDB -ID 256533-X , p. 441 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 10 ° 38 ′ 30.5 ″  E