Sebastian Chapel (Wallbach)
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The Sebastianskapelle is a Christian Catholic church building in Wallbach in the canton of Aargau . The baroque Roman Catholic chapel, built in 1698, passed to the Christian Catholics two hundred years later.
Wallbach has always been part of the Mumpf parish . With the permission of the Bishop of Basel , the community set up a chapel foundation. The chapel was built by labor in 1698 and consecrated seven years later. As a result of the Kulturkampf , a Christian Catholic parish was established in 1872. This united with that of Obermumpf in 1898 and was awarded the Sebastian Chapel. The Roman Catholics had built their own church in 1892. A total renovation took place in 1880/81. In 1982 an interior renovation followed with the installation of an organ, in 1988 an exterior restoration.
The chapel faces south and stands on the south-western edge of the village center. The short building has a gable roof on which a sheet metal clad roof turret with an onion helmet rises. A small monopitch roof protects the red sandstone round portal with a Biedermeier- style door leaf . A sacristy is attached to the sloping western wall. In the unstructured, sober interior there is a column retable from around 1720/30, which is attributed to the workshop of Johann Isaak Freitag . On the main sheet are the chapel saints Sebastian and Rochus in front of Our Lady ; Rochus points to a representation by Wallbach (one of the oldest at all).
literature
- Edith Hunziker, Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IX, Rheinfelden District, 2011, ISBN 978-3-906131-94-8 , pp. 424-427 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '26.7 " N , 7 ° 54' 15.9" E ; CH1903: 635060 / two hundred sixty-seven thousand five hundred seventeen