Maria Schnee (Mindelheim)
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The construction of the Roman Catholic chapel Maria Schnee (also called Eichet Chapel ) goes back to a find from 1803, in which a picture of Maria Schnee was found in an oak tree. The chapel is located in Mindelheim in the Unterallgäu district ( Bavaria ) and is a listed building.
history
The citizen's wife Elisabeth Bodenmüller arranged for a first wooden field chapel to be built by collecting sums of money after the picture was found. The painting found was placed on the altar of this chapel. In 1819 the first chapel was replaced by a larger one, also made of wood. It was not until 1871 that the wooden chapel was demolished and replaced by a solid building made from the funds of master mason Andreas Scheu and businessman Josef Boneberger von Mindelheim. A renovation took place in 1962.
description
The chapel is located to the southeast, slightly outside the city of Mindelheim. The chapel building is a simple neo-Romanesque , flat-roofed building with three window axes and a three-sided end. Arched windows are used in the three-sided end and in the nave . In the main room, a profile cornice runs below the ceiling edge. On the west wall is the inscription Anno Domini 1871 / newly built by the Guttätern / Andreas Scheu Maurermeister / u. Josef Boneberger businessman / from Mindelheim. appropriate. Outside, the chapel is divided into large rectangular panels by pilaster strips . Access to the chapel is made by a segmental arch portal on the west side, this is plate-like of a protruding from the wall shrine surrounded. The aedicule has a flat gable crowned by a pinnacle. Its structure follows the west gable of the chapel. The square roof turret with four gables and a sheet metal point rises above this .
Furnishing
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The classicistic altar dates from the beginning of the 19th century and was probably changed in the following period. It is made of wood and white and gold taken . The tall, convex structure contains a cloverleaf-shaped, closed niche in which there is a rectangular painting of Maria Schnee in a gilded frame with a crown at the top. The altarpiece is flanked by Corinthian , red-marbled columns that are inclined towards the outside . Behind the columns there are fluted pilasters in the same color as the columns. In front of the two columns there is a vase on a console. The entablature of the altar is cranked and raised in segmental arches above the central altar niche. The flat volute gable above bears the inscription MARIA / QUEEN OF PEACE / PLEASE FOR US. from 1914. The small wooden figures above date from the 18th century and represent God the Father with the dove of the Holy Spirit at the top . Small putti sitting on volutes to the right and left .
On the predella , in a classicist, round-arched frame from the 19th century, there is the miraculous image of Maria Schnee. This is painted on a piece of tree trunk surrounding the bark. It is a copy of the painting of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
The ceiling painting shows the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in a circle and is labeled Anton Braun 1871 . On the west wall there is a painting with the Battle of Lepanto from the end of the 17th century. The painting shows Maria intervening in the fight from above and knocking down her scepter with lightning bolts. On the back of the canvas of the rectangular painting, an allegorical representation in red and yellow tone painting can be seen in decorative painting . It shows a fortress tower with guns and flags and the name of Mary. NOMINI MEO ADSCRIBATVR VICTORIA is written in a tape at the top . 2 REG. 12. read. There are also two small rectangular pictures of St. Ignatius and Francis Xavier from the 18th or 19th century in the chapel. On the back of each of the two pictures is a piece of paper with the inscription 1836. / This picture in the Eichet Chapel / donated to our Dear Lady at / Mindelheim / by / Ms. Xaver Hinterkircher / former pharmacist in / Mindelheim and dermahlen privateer / in Augsburg. available.
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 742 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 309 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-173-144
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 9.9 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 36.8 ″ E