Marienkapelle (Erlenmoos)

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Marienkapelle Erlenmoos (2012)

The Marienkapelle is a listed chapel in the municipality of Erlenmoos in the district of Biberach in Upper Swabia .

description

The chapel was built in 1769 by the 26th and last abbot of the Ochsenhausen monastery Romuald Weltin . It is located at the intersection of Ochsenhauser Strasse and the main street, which continues on via the K 7511 to Laubach. The single-nave, east-facing and beaver-tail-roofed building has a round choir . Instead of a tower, a roof turret with an onion hood and arched sound openings was attached to the western end of the gable roof . There is a bell cage with bells and a tower clock in the roof turret above the gable portal bearing the pilasters to the west . The tower clock has a dial in the north, south and east .

The chapel's furnishings include figures of St. Scholastica , a Madonna and a crucifix .

literature

  • Country descriptions of the State Archives Sigmaringen: The county Biberach Volume I . Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-6185-4 , p. 917 .
  • Country descriptions of the Sigmaringen State Archive: The Biberach District Volume II . Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-6186-2 , p. 1054 .

Web links

Commons : Lady Chapel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 55.8 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 31.6 ″  E