Boos Castle

Court chapel of the former Fugger Castle in Boos

The former Fugger Castle Boos is located in the municipality of Boos in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . It is located directly on the federal highway 300 in the middle of the village. The main structural components of the castle date from the second half of the 16th century. It was originally owned by the Fugger-Boos family. The former castle and the castle chapel are under monument protection.

Building description

The main building has two floors and a gable roof covered. There is a roof turret on the gable on the south side . A farm building adjoins the north side of the main building at right angles. The west gable of this farm building contains keel arches. On the south side of the main building there is a three-wing system around a courtyard adjacent to the main road. The farm buildings of the facility are also two-story and covered with pitched roofs. A three-aisled hall with seven bays is located on the ground floor of the west wing.

Castle chapel

The former castle chapel is located in the southernmost part of the building and faces east. It dates from 1716 and is a semicircular room that is structured with pilasters . There is a flat ceiling in the castle chapel . The stucco dates from 1773. The ceiling painting depicting the divine virtues and the painted altar structure date from the same period. The stucco and the paintings are all by Viktorian Denzel .

literature

• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 215 .
• Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 78 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Boos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-120-2

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 37.9 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 43.4 ″  E