Rochus Chapel on the Blutsberg
The Rochuskapelle am Blutsberg (also mountain chapel or broom chapel ) is located in Aichstetten in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia . The private chapel is dedicated to St. Rochus .
description
From the agricultural path that connects Aichstetten with Altmannshofen , a forestry path at the Bärtle farmhouse leads north to the Blutsberg . After about three hundred meters uphill you will reach the broom chapel. In a south-westerly direction, the path continues to the 715 meter high Blutsberg, on which the Blutsberg Castle is said to have stood. The chapel is dedicated to the patron saint of plague sufferers and domestic animals , Rochus .
To underline the seriousness of their faith, those seeking healing from a skin disease placed a whisk in a corner of the chapel.
The simple, small, in the 18th century built, geostete , gable roof covered and hipped on the east side building with a floor plan of approximately three to three meters is hardly visible from the outside as a chapel. It was completely renovated and renewed at the end of the 2000s.
There is a bench on the north side of the chapel . Inside the chapel there are two knee benches and, behind a grille, there are several Madonnas, a Saint Anthony and an epitaph .
The chapel has no bell. The parish is part of the Allgäu-Oberschwaben deanery and belongs to the pastoral care unit 21 Aitrachtal.
literature
- Manfred Thierer, Ursula Rückgauer: Places of Silence. The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 392 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Brooms and prayer should work miracles from September 2, 2009, accessed on December 4, 2011
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '47.4 " N , 10 ° 3' 35.4" E