St. Anna (Kornhofen)

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Chapel of St. Anna in Kornhofen

The chapel in Kornhofen, a district of Bad Grönenbach ( Unterallgäu district ), is a Catholic religious building . The chapel was built in 1772 and has the patronage of St. Anna .

history

The chapel is a south-facing building. It has a wooden roof turret with an onion hood. Above the entrance to the chapel, an inscription in a sandstone slab names the builder:

"The chapels were built by the honorable Mr. Franz Benedict Stark Hochfürstl [icher] Kempt [ischer] Baumaist [er] A. MDCCLXXII"

- Inscription on the gable of the chapel, 1772

Furnishing

The altar is a marbled wooden structure with a figure of Christ in the grave. On the altar there is a precious Madonna from the 14th century and in the chapel there is a ceramic figure of Anna Selbdritt from the 15th century. Wooden figures from the 15th century depict the saints Apollonia , Sebastian and Ottilie , among others .

  • Clock and inscription by the builder of the chapel

  • Altar with figure of Mary and baby Jesus

  • One of the wooden figures inside with a depiction of the Sacred Heart

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Anna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Hermann Haisch: District of Unterallgäu . Memminger Zeitung Verlagsdruckerei GmbH, Kempten 1910, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , p. 1018 .
  • Monuments in Bavaria, Swabia , Bernd-Peter Schaul, Otto Braasch, 1986
  • Joseph Sedelmayer: History of the market town Grönenbach . Ed .: Historical association for the overall promotion of local history of the Allgäu. Kempten 1910, p. 213 .
  • Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 133 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 133.

Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '12.89 "  N , 10 ° 13' 51.16"  E