St. Johannes Nepomuk Monument (Kirchheim in Swabia)

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St. Johannes Nepomuk monument on the market square in Kirchheim in Swabia

The St. Johannes Nepomuk monument in Kirchheim in Swabia in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria , is located in the middle of the market square and is a listed building. The figure is dedicated to St. John Nepomuk and was made from shell limestone . The tail base on which the figure is located is more recent than the figure and only roughly hewn. The Rococo figure of the saint stands on a pedestal . The pedestal bears the year 1740 and a relief coat of arms of Count Cajetan Joseph Fugger and his wife Maria Anna née von Stein zum Rechtenstein.

  • Fountain with the figure of Saint John of Nepomuk

  • Relief coat of arms Fugger / Stein

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 190 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 589 .

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes Nepomuk Monument (Kirchheim in Schwaben)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-158-17

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 22 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 32 ″  E