Shield tailed
Today Weiler sign Schwaig , 2½ kilometers south-southwest of the Upper Bavarian municipality main town Wildsteig in Weilheim-Schongau , was a monastery and a summer resort for the canons of the monastery Rottenbuch founded. The place consists of the extensive manor complex (with chapel) on a hill, two residential buildings and a sawmill in the Illach valley and another residential building 200 meters to the northwest.
history
In 1629 the monastic estate Schildschwaig was created by merging the individual farms Zum Engel and Zum Jäger under the Rottenbuch provost Michael Piscator , which was managed by the canons themselves and served as a summer resort. In 1678 a chapel with the patronage of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was built next to the courtyard . Since the secularization in 1803, the Good in private hands and is managed ecologically sustainable since 2000
Visitation of the Virgin Mary
The chapel was initiated by Probst Augustin Oberst and built in 1678. The building is 50 meters east-southeast of the manor house above the road that passes by (from Unternogg to Steingaden ). In 1803 it was profaned and used as a storage room. The new landlord Augustin Wörmann had it restored and rededicated in 1866. The two-bay building with three-eighth end and western ridge turret has a rococo altar from 1760/70. The chapel is not accessible as it is located in the walled rear property.
literature
- Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23). 2nd Edition. Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 , pp. 675-676
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 47.3 " N , 10 ° 55 ′ 19.1" E