St. Joseph (Graefelfing)
The St. Joseph Forest Chapel , the so-called Bäckerkapelle , in Graefelfing , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Munich on the western outskirts of Munich , was built in 1921/22. The chapel near Josef-Schöfer-Straße, opposite the former baker's rest home, is a protected monument .
The principal for the construction of the chapel was the head master of the bakers' guild, Josef Schöfer. Delayed by the First World War, construction could only be completed in 1921 based on designs by Franz Xaver Knöpfle. The inauguration took place on July 23, 1922.
The neo-Baroque hall structure with drawn polygonal choir and porch has an octagonal roof skylights with bells roof. The nave is surrounded by extensions: to the north is the warrior's memory, to the west is the open vestibule and to the south is a semicircular closed extension with a Marian grotto . A crucifixion group can be seen in the gable of the entrance facade .
literature
- Georg Paula , Timm Weski: District of Munich (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.17 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87490-576-4 , p. 64 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '36.8 " N , 11 ° 25' 13.3" E