Windisch-Minihof local chapel

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Windisch-Minihof local chapel

The Roman Catholic Windisch-Minihof chapel is located in the Windisch-Minihof cadastral community in the Minihof-Liebau community in the Jennersdorf district of Burgenland . The chapel in the center of the village is dedicated to St. John the Baptist . It is a branch church of the parish of St. Martin an der Raab . The chapel is since October 2002 under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

According to a wooden plaque discovered during the renovation of the church, the first canonical visitation took place in 1757. According to the visitation protocol, there were two brick wayside shrines and a wooden belfry with a bell that had been erected shortly before . According to an inscription on the gallery, a chapel was built for the first time in 1760. Another canonical visitation took place in 1828, the minutes of which show that in 1824 a small church with a tower made of solid material was built. On August 23 of the same year it was consecrated to St. John the Baptist by Stefan Eisner, pastor of St. Martin an der Raab ( Hungarian : "Rábaszentmárton"). Renovations took place in 1833 and 1886.

In 1957 the church was completely rebuilt with donations from an American who grew up in Windisch-Minihof, only the bell tower remained. This building was renovated in 1978, 1989 and 2007.

Architecture and equipment

Wayside cross in front of the chapel

The church is a small single-nave, three-bay building with a semicircular apse . A facade tower with a pointed helmet is attached to the west. The ceiling in the interior is flat.

Above the altar is a Madonna figure from the first half of the 19th century. On the left wall of the apse is a simple immaculate from the 18th century. There is also a small lecture cross from the end of the 18th century as inventory. There is a wayside cross in front of the chapel.

Web links

Commons : Local chapel Windisch-Minihof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b website of the parish Sankt Martin an der Raab (martinus.at) (accessed August 22, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Windisch-Minihof Church. Website of the municipality of Minihof-Liebau.
  3. ↑ a b c d Dehio Burgenland 1976 , Windisch Minihof, Filialkapelle hl. Johannes , p. 323.

Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '26.3 "  N , 16 ° 5' 45.4"  E