Maria Trost (Dirlewang)
The Roman Catholic chapel Maria Trost in Dirlewang , a municipality in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria , was built at the end of the 17th century and was the place of the Belt Brotherhood Maria vom Trost. The building is a historical monument.
history
On April 1, 1696, the Belt Brotherhood Maria vom Trost was established in the chapel . The chapel was probably built around this time . The brotherhood continued until the end of the 18th century. The brotherhood book is in the rectory. Lorenz Miller, head miller from Dirlewang, donated 300 florins in his will of November 6th, 1710 to our dear women chapel there for the plastering of the choir . The nave was probably built in the late 18th century. A renovation took place in 1911 and again outside in 1969. A hermitage on the north side of the chapel was demolished around 1920.
Building description
The original chapel from the end of the 17th century forms the choir part of the existing building and comprises two bays with a three-sided end. In the choir with its retracted round arched windows has a groin vault . The walls are decorated with staggered Tuscan pilasters with pieces of entablature. A low basket arch arcade breaks through the west wall of the choir towards the nave. The west side of the breakthrough is chamfered and covered with guttae . The nave connects to the west of the older choir section and was built in the 18th century. It is designed as a low room with a flat ceiling and is as wide as the choir. There are three arched windows on both sides. Access to the chapel is on the south side of the nave through an arched door, which was doubled in a diamond shape with a central rosette at the end of the 18th century. To the left of the altar is an arched niche. Access to the attic of the nave is through a rectangular opening on the west wall of the choir above the arch . The bell rope is attached to the vault through a round opening above.
Outside on the west corners and the apse of the choir there is a neo-baroque rustication , the windows are provided with a neo-baroque stucco frame. A richly profiled eaves cornice is attached to the choir . In the apex of the choir there is a drilled, framed rectangular niche with a renewed painting of Our Lady . The west gable of the choir is framed with profiled cornices, in the gable field there is a rectangular niche. This is provided with lateral volutes and has a profiled roof. Above it, on the top of the gable, there is a roof turret. The roof turret has a fielded square base to which an octagonal upper part connects. This is divided by cornices and narrow ionizing corner pilasters into the paneled plinth area, the main floor with arched window openings and a low upper floor. On the upper floor there are transversely oval openings in the fields of the main sides. The roof turret is completed by a strong, profiled cornice and a sheet metal onion hood . Compared to the choir, the nave is completely unadorned. It has a profiled Traufgesims and with my saddle roof covered. A rectangular opening to the storage facility is located on the west gable. In the 18th century, the sacristy was added to the south side of the choir . Like the other components, this has a profiled eaves cornice. It is covered with a transverse saddle roof. There are small rectangular windows on the east and south sides of the sacristy.
Interior
The altar was created around 1700 and also renovated in 1911 during the renovation of the chapel. It consists of red stucco marble with gilding and a box-shaped stipe made of wood. In the area of the predella there is a tabernacle-like four-column housing. The case with the split-segment gable contains the round arched miraculous image of Maria Trost. The image of grace was painted in oil on canvas. The miraculous image is flanked by figures of angels. The large, also arched, closed altarpiece shows Mary handing the belt to Nikolaus von Tolentino . In addition, St. Augustine and his mother Monika are shown, the legendary founders of the Belt Brotherhood, which was popularized by the Augustinian hermits. In the upper area of the altarpiece there is a representation of the Trinity , in the lower area that of the poor souls. At the bottom left is the founder's unidentified coat of arms. There is a rich acanthus carving around the painting. A cartridge with the inscription H. MARIA HILFE U. TROST ALLER is present in the top. On both sides there are two pre-staggered Corinthian columns and recessed outer pilasters with cranked segment gables. Angels with banners sit on the gables. VIRGO IMMACULATA can be read on the left banner and MATER ADMIRABILIS on the right banner .
There are a number of wooden figures in the chapel. The crucifix and the Mater Dolorosa date from the middle of the 18th century . The small half-figure of St. Matthew on a console also dates from this period, as does the figure of Saint Joseph and the Savior of the Resurrection. The paintings of the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary were created in the middle of the 18th century, and the painting of Wiesheiland comes from the third quarter of the 18th century. It bears the inscription: Gracious portrait of the flagellated Heyland in the so-called Wiß Capelle Steingädischer Pfarr. The half-length figure of the painful Savior is from the second half of the 19th century, the portrait of Mariahilf from the 18th century.
The neo-baroque frescoes in the choir were created in 1911 by Wilhelm Geremiller from Munich. In the circular field between the two choir yokes, the Rosary Mother of God is depicted with angels. Of the name of the fresco, only the year 1911 is legible. In the caps and spandrels, starting on the eastern north side, the following frescoes with the appropriate designation are present: Archangel Gabriel with Ave Maria , crown and palm branches with Regina Martyrum , St. Anne with the Child Mary, a mirror with scales and tablets of the law and the inscription Speculum Justitiae . Beginning on the eastern south side: an angel with Gratia plena , the morning star with Stella Matutina , Saint Joachim , a rose with the inscription Rosa mystica .
Josef Schnitzer created the stucco in the choir part of the chapel in 1911 . There is a laurel stick on the vault. In the caps there are acanthus decor and small painting cartouches. There are shells above the windows and there is also a large stucco shell above the altar. Acanthus is stuccoed above the left altar niche and an angel's head above the right niche.
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 99-101 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-127-5
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 11.7 " N , 10 ° 30 ′ 17.7" E