St. Antonius (Mindelheim)
The Roman Catholic St. Antonius Chapel was built around or around 1700 and is located in Mindelheim , in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria . The listed church building bears the patronage of St. Anthony of Padua .
history
The chapel was built either towards or around the year 1700, as reported by J. Ph. Brunnenmair in 1821 with "... about 100 years ago ... by an unknown admirer". The altar niche, however, comes from a later period, probably from the first half of the 19th century, and was built when an altar from another church was transferred to the chapel. A restoration took place in 1966.
Building description
The west-facing building is located to the west outside the old town on the left bank of the Mindel . The chapel is a small rectangular building with groin vaults on templates with carnies cornice at the ends of the long walls. There is a wide, recessed, round-arched window on both sides of the nave . The later built rectangular altar niche is slightly wider inside than the small nave. On the outside, the extension is drawn in and lower than the rest of the chapel. Access to the chapel is through a basket arch door with a combat cornice on the east side. The access door is framed by Tuscan pilasters with beams. A transverse oval window interrupts the framework above the door. There is a rectangular opening in the gable above. A strong cornice cornice is attached to both the eaves and the sloping sides of both gables. The door leaves are covered with winding board pilasters.
View before renovation
South view of the chapel after the renovation
Interior
The marbled wooden altar dates from the early 18th century and is decorated with gold. It consists of a low, wide box strip and completely fills the altar niche. Spiral acanthus decor is found on the predella zone . The other concave structure consists of four columns and is divided into three axes. The niches are indicated by shells. On the tabernacle in the central niche there is a wooden figure of St. Anthony of Padua, from around 1700 or around 1700. In the left side niche there is a wooden figure of St. Joachim and right of St. Joseph . Both figures date from the beginning of the 18th century. The altar has cranked entablature and a broad extension with volutes, shortened at the top, on which putti sit. The Holy Spirit is represented in the middle in a cloud ring and a ray glory . The angel's head above dates from the second half of the 17th century. Similar, but smaller angel heads are on the entablature above the outer columns.
There are several wooden figures in the chapel, such as a Mother of God , on a classical console from the end of the 17th century from the circle of Georg Schenk. Furthermore, two silver-plated half-figures of Saints Ignatius and Franz Xavier from the second half of the 17th century. The silver-plated busts of St. John of Nepomuk and Antonius date from the second quarter of the 18th century . The two vases with putti heads are from the 18th century. Towards the end of the 18th century the stalls with their richly curved cheeks were created. These have a raised edge and central rosettes in circular apertures. Two votive pictures , painted oil on wood, from the second quarter of the 18th century are in the chapel. The votive picture marked 1736 EX VOTO shows Saint Anthony and a young man kneeling in elegant clothes at his feet. The second votive picture shows a kneeling Franciscan at the feet of St. Anthony.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 740 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 305 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-173-74
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 50.4 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 1 ″ E