St. Antonius (Westerried)
The St. Antonius Chapel is a church built in 1714 in Westerried , a district of the Kraftisried community in the Ostallgäu district in Bavaria .
The chapel is designed as a rotunda , unusual for the area and the time of construction. The altar dates from the time the chapel was built; the altarpiece was made in 1885 by the Unterthingau painter Andreas Mayr and shows Saint Anthony of Padua with the baby Jesus in front of the Mother of God .
The extract shows the stigmatization of St. Francis of Assisi , it was created in 1890 by Johann Fischer.
The altar is flanked on the right by a statue of St. Roch , who points to a plague wound on his thigh, on the left by St. Anthony, popularly known as "Sautoni", with a pig, which refers to the pig-breeding privilege of the Order of Antonites .
literature
- Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 , pp. 363 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 12.7 " N , 10 ° 27 ′ 37.5" E