Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Bierdorf)

Chapel of the Visitation in Bierdorf

inside view

The Catholic Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Bierdorf , a district of the community of Dießen am Ammersee in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , was built by the Dießen monastery between 1607 and 1609 . The chapel is a protected architectural monument .

The stately saddle roof building with a polygonal choir and roof turret was built according to Gothic forms. The door, the windows and the choir arch are ogival. The choir has a star ridge vault with keystones .

The altar (around 1606) with the Virgin Mary (around 1624), attributed to Rudolf Zwinck, is designed in the Renaissance style.

The chapel was extensively renovated between 2010 and 2014.

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 139 .
Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 .
Heide Weißhaar-Kiem: The chapel “Our Lady in Bierdorf” - history, description, conservation . In: Heimatverband Lech-Isar-Land eV (Ed.): Lech-Isar-Land 2016 . Local history yearbook. Weilheim in Oberbayern November 2015, DNB 4713255-3 , p. 29-40 .

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