St. Leonhard (Balzhausen)
The Catholic Chapel of St. Leonhard in Balzhausen , a municipality in the Swabian district of Günzburg ( Bavaria ), was built around 1724. The chapel at St.-Leonhard-Straße 19, at the southern end of the village, is a protected architectural monument .
architecture
A pilgrimage chapel is mentioned here as early as 1560 . The current building was rebuilt around 1724 by Michael Stiller. The single-nave chapel with a flat needle cap barrel is structured by pilasters . It has a recessed, semicircular apse . On the west side is the square tower with a short octagon and onion dome .
The frescoes by Michael Niggl date from the time it was built. They represent the Holy Trinity and scenes from the life of St. Leonhard , the patron saint of the chapel.
Furnishing
The altar was made in 1706 by Lorenz Luidl . The figure of St. Leonhard with two kneeling shepherds and a horse stands in the central shrine. The figures of St. Clovis and St. Roch are on the outer consoles . A large votive picture shows Abbot Hyazinth Gaßner from Steingaden Monastery , who was born in Balzhausen.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia (arr.: Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula) . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03008-5 , p. 167 .
- Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 15 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ' N , 10 ° 30' E