Marienkapelle (Walkerszell)

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Lady Chapel

The Marienkapelle is a chapel dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus , in Walkerszell , a district of the market town of Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-161-120 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.

The building is on the Veiter Wegfeld corridor not far east of the village above the Walkerszeller Bach at an altitude of 409 meters above  sea ​​level . The chapel is a small, massive hipped roof building with a protruding roof. On August 15th ( Assumption of the Virgin Mary ) there will be a pilgrimage on foot from the Church of St. Johann Baptist to the chapel.

It was built in 1712 by the farmer Brendl and expanded in 1739. The chapel is looked after by the local Lierheimer family. The baroque stucco ceiling is unique in northern Bavaria.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wegkapelle Liebfrauenkapelle , list of monuments of the municipality of Pleinfeld at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ The roots of Walkerszell ... ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.pleinfeld.eu, accessed April 1, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pleinfeld.eu
  4. ↑ Monument award of the district of Middle Franconia 2015. Award for the Marienkapelle in Walkerszell. in: Bürger-Info , Markt Pleinfeld April 2016, p. 9.

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 '55.1 "  N , 10 ° 55' 48.4"  E