St. Gallus (Grasgrub)

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St. Gallus Chapel in Grasgrub, Dietmannsried

The St. Gallus Chapel in Grasgrub , a district of Dietmannsried in the Oberallgäu district in Bavaria, is a listed building.

history

The easted chapel, presumably originally built in the early 16th century, is late Gothic. Around 1680 it was refurbished. An inscription on the back of the altar states that it was restored in 1723. The interior is Gothic and dates from the 19th or 20th century.

Building description

The building consists of a single nave long house with a flat ceiling and a window axis. A simple gallery is attached to the west side in the nave. The barely retracted choir with a flat ceiling is connected by a pressed choir arch . Arched windows are in the nave, ogive windows in the choir. The east window in the choir is walled up. On the west side there is access to the chapel through a modern wooden sign . A roof turret is placed over the west gable .

Interior

The marbled altar was created around 1680. An inscription on the base of the altar mentions a restoration in 1906. In a niche there is a figure of Our Lady on the crescent moon. The niche is flanked by columns, which are covered with scrollwork cartouches and fruit hangings. On the right and left on volute consoles there are figures of St. Martin with beggar and St. Augustine. Angel heads are on the cranked architrave . In the altar extract there is a strongly renewed painting of St. Michael. A crucifixion group with Maria , Johannes and Maria Magdalena is in the cafeteria . There are several wooden figures in the choir, such as a Madonna around 1460/1470, a crucifix from the middle of the 17th century, a St. Gallus from around 1440, as well as a St. Magnus from the late 17th century. The rural way of the cross dates from the 18th or 19th century.

Web links

Commons : St. Gallus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 90f.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 402 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry D-7-80-119-8

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 44.3 "  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 34.8"  E