Odilokapelle (Boswil)
The Odilokapelle is a former Roman Catholic chapel in Boswil in the canton of Aargau . It is located on the eastern edge of the village and, together with the former rectory and the old church, forms a historical group of buildings. The chapel once served as an ossuary , today as a meeting and seminar room for the Künstlerhaus Boswil Foundation .
On 29./30. September 1498, at the same time as the church, the ossuary was consecrated in honor of St. Odilo of Cluny . The building was rebuilt around 1700. In 1718 Prince Abbot Plazidus Zurlauben consecrated the altar and in 1784/85 the turret was renewed. In 1913 the group of buildings was rented to the painter Richard Arthur Nüscheler and sold in 1918. He had a new turret built and organized from 1933 to 1940 in the chapel; since then it has been profaned like the old church .
The ossuary on the southern edge of the church hill has two floors. Downstairs is the crypt with a barrel vault , which is accessible from the choir side. The chapel room is accessed from the west through a pointed arch portal .
literature
- Georg Germann: The art monuments of the canton Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume V, Muri District. Birkhäuser, Basel 1967, p. 96 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '9.9 " N , 8 ° 19' 14" E ; CH1903: six hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred and ninety-six / 239471