Small chapel Pirk

The listed Roman Catholic Little Chapel Pirk is located on the right side of the road at the exit to Schirmitz in the Upper Palatinate community of Pirk .

The chapel dates from the first half of the 19th century. In the 1940s, Felix Neiser renovated the partially dilapidated chapel as a thank you for his wife's recovery. In 1980/81 the chapel was renovated by the municipality of Pirk. Today an altar is set up there during corridor processions .

The chapel is a 2.9 m long, 2.25 m wide and 4 m high gable roof building . There is a 30 cm wide and 60 cm high arched window on the long sides. In the roof gable is an empty niche for a figure of a saint. The chapel has a pilaster frame on the gable side .

Inside the church, after four stone steps, there is a grating, behind which there is a 1.5 m high wooden cross with a figure of Christ (19th century), and a 1 m high Madonna with the rosary can also be seen.

literature

• Ferdinand Schönberger: chapels in the community of Pirk. In: Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : 900 years of the Pirk community. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1993, pp. 832-836.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 12 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 50 ″  E