St. Georg (Eschach)
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The village chapel St. Georg is a Roman Catholic chapel in Eschach , a hamlet of Altmannshofen , part of the municipality of Aichstetten in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia .
description
The easted chapel in the middle of the village is surrounded by a shoulder-high wall with the cemetery . You enter it on the western side of the tower. The tower carries the bells and a church tower clock with a dial each on the east and south sides. A pyramid roof forms the top of the tower . The nave , which does not have a basement, has a gable roof and a stone floor, the retracted choir has a round apse . The tower and nave are covered with beaver tails . Since the end of 2011, the bells have no longer been rung manually, but with the help of a machine . In 1737 the chapel was enlarged but not baroque . The painting of the ceilings in the choir and nave dates from 1876. In the niche of the right side altar there is a wooden sculpture of St. George and below it a figure of St. Sebastian . In the left side altar there is a Mother of God and below it St. Christopher. On the south wall of the nave hangs a crucifix, on the north wall St. George fights the dragon.
The alliance coat of arms above the choir commemorates the donors of the ceiling painting, Prince Wilhelm von Waldburg-Zeil and his wife Maria Anna, née Waldburg-Wolfegg. The altar sheet of the chapel comes from the church in Altmannhofen. It depicts Mary and Joseph , among them Saints Sebastian and George and at the bottom the poor souls in purgatory . Before the high altar with an Infant Jesus and a crucifix is a people's altar . The ceiling painting with the signature of L. Mohr is dated to 1878. It shows Mary with the baby Jesus above the clouds. On the left of her St. Gallus kneels with his bear and on the right in front of the Mother of God St. George in knight armor and halberd, the defeated dragon at his feet. Below the clouds and the blue sky, L. Mohr has depicted the hamlet of Eschach in almost detail. In the middle of the gallery, a fresco on the parapet depicts the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. The chapel is equipped with stations of the cross. The chapel was at times the church of an independent parish. The current parish belongs to the pastoral care unit 21 Aitrachtal in the dean's office in Allgäu-Oberschwaben .
literature
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- Manfred Thierer / Ursula Rückgauer: Places of silence: The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 392 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Regional information system for Baden-Württemberg: St. Georg (Eschach 13, Aichstetten)
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 58 ″ N , 10 ° 3 ′ 15 ″ E