Marienkapelle (Isny im Allgäu)

View to the choir of the Marienkapelle

The Marienkapelle in the Württemberg town of Isny im Allgäu ( district of Ravensburg ) was reserved for the monks of the Benedictine monastery of St. Georg until 1803 . After secularization , the monastery - from then on used as a castle and rebuilt - together with the Marienkapelle fell to the Princely House of Quadt , which used the church as a burial place . The chapel with its rococo furnishings in the choir, with the abbot images and the old choir stalls of the monks is well preserved. Together with the other buildings in the castle, it is a protected cultural monument .

Building

From the choir room of the Church of St. George and James , which was once reserved for the monks of the former Benedictine monastery, a side entrance on the right leads into the Marienkapelle. After the fire of 1631, the gem was restored in 1645. The choir with its high Gothic floor plan refers to the construction time around 1390. However, the baroque St. Mary's altar is integrated quite well into this polygonal choir.

The wooden coffered ceiling , divided into rectangular fields, bears recessed canvas oil paintings. The altar with a Gothic Mary and Child (15th century) is one of the most charming late rococo altars in the Swabian foothills of the Alps . It was completed in 1773 by Konrad Hegenauer .

The former choir stalls of the monks are located in the chapel nave. 48 oil paintings on the side walls and on the gallery are reminiscent of all the abbots of the Isny ​​monastery.

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  The image of the Virgin Mary on the high altar

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  Left side altar

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  Right side altar

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  Cross on the side wall

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  Portrait of Abbot Ildephonsus Rehm

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  Detail of the coffered ceiling

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  Detail of the choir stalls

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  Abbot Gallery - 48 images

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  Detail from a painting: the monastery

Protected cultural monument

The Marienkapelle is - in connection with the former monastery buildings and current castle buildings - a protected cultural monument. You are part of a whole. In the monument conservation value plan for Isny ​​im Allgäu, this totality is assessed as follows: “ The supra-regionally significant and cityscape-defining castle complex, including ancillary buildings and open spaces, is an outstanding testimony to the town and settlement history of Isny. For scientific, artistic and local history reasons, there is a special public interest in the preservation of the whole. "

The whole is protected according to §§ 2 and 28 Monument Protection Act of Baden-Württemberg .

literature

• Gerhard Weisgerber, Heinz Bucher: The Lady Chapel of the Isny ​​Monastery: Art - History - Piety. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-888-3 .
• Preservation value plans of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Preservation value plan for the entire Isny ​​city center, accessed on November 1, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Marienkapelle (Isny)  - Collection of images

Commons : Äbtegalerie (Marienkapelle Isny)  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Allgäu website , allgaeu.de, accessed on November 1, 2017.

Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 37.5 ″  N , 10 ° 2 ′ 35.1 ″  E