Marienkapelle (Häggenschwil)

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Marienkapelle Ruggisberg, Häggenschwil

Marienkapelle Ruggisberg, exterior view

Basic data
Denomination Roman Catholic
place Häggenschwil , Switzerland
diocese Diocese of St. Gallen
Patronage Most Holy Virgin Mary
Building history
Client Abbot Nicholas II of Obermarchtal
construction time 1684-1684
Building description
Architectural style Late Renaissance and Early Baroque
Coordinates 745 640  /  261600 coordinates: 47 ° 29 '20.5 "  N , 9 ° 22' 16.8"  O ; CH1903:  745640  /  261600
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The Lady Chapel in the hamlet Ruggisberg in the municipality Häggenschwil in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen was the abbot of the monastery Obermarchtal Niklaus II. In 1684 to commemorate the victory over the Turks at Vienna in 1683 commissioned.

history

The chapel was inaugurated in 1685 by the auxiliary bishop of Konstanz .

In 1883 the Catholic parish of Häggenschwil acquired the chapel for CHF 1068.54.

Furnishing

The partly marbled, partly gilded baroque high altar shows a part from the battle of the Turks near Vienna. Above the painting is the coat of arms of Abbot Nicholas II.

The altar is flanked by painted wooden figures of the bishops Martin von Tours (patron of the mother church in Arbon) and Nikolaus von Myra (patron of Abbot Nicholas II).

On the left wall of the chapel there is a baroque ray Madonna, on the right wall of the chapel there is an ornate crucifix .

gallery

  • Exterior view

  • inscription

literature

  • Sales Huber: Ruggisberg Castle and Chapel. Self-published by the Häggenschwil loan office, Häggenschwil 1972, pp. 101–106.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 1929: History of the parish Häggenschwil. For the 200th anniversary 1728-1929 . Ed .: Ernst Scheffold. 1929, p. 34 .
  2. ^ Arnold Nüscheler: All churches in Switzerland up to 1860 . Dogma, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-95507-800-3 , p. 133 .