St. Leonhard (Kirchheim)
The Roman Catholic St. Leonhard Chapel is a listed building and is located in Kirchheim in Swabia , in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria .
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history
The chapel , built in the 15th century with the surrounding cemetery, which was abandoned in 1932, was first mentioned in 1537. This previous building no longer exists. The existing church building is from the early 17th century. When it was built, the older surrounding walls were probably reused. Master mason Johann Hennevogel received 115 florins for a chapel repair in 1717. Further renovations took place in 1880 and around 1955.
Building description
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The church building is a simple building with a flat ceiling and a three-sided end. Arched windows can be found in the oblique axes of the end. The wooden gallery on the west side dates from the 19th century. Access to the chapel is through a rectangular door in the north wall, which is surrounded on the outside by a newer wall protrusion. An octagonal roof turret is attached above the west gable. In its structure it contains arched panels or arched openings. The roof turret is covered with a pointed helmet made of sheet metal.
Interior
The marbled wooden altar from around 1720/1730 consists of a two-pillar structure and contains a closed, round-arched painting depicting St. Leonhard . There are also statuettes of St. Ludwig Bertrand and Thomas Aquinas . An oval image of the resurrection of Christ is inserted in the altar extract . There is a heart of Jesus on a two-pillar housing in front of the predella. Consisting of lead -made sanctuary lamp lights with angel heads back to the 18th century.
Two wooden figures are placed inside the chapel. This is a nearly life-size crucifix from the second quarter of the 18th century. This may have been in the cemetery and was made by the sculptor Marquard Schwegler and taken by Johann Georg Gressle. The wooden figure of St. Leonhard comes from the first quarter of the 18th century.
Several funerary monuments are preserved in the chapel. The limestone grave monument for Margret Stadlerin von Duetenstein († 1614), the wife of the caretaker Johann Neidlinger, depicts the deceased kneeling in front of a crucifix in a bas-relief. The image is surrounded by an aedicula with dorising pilasters with a blown gable. In the lower area there is a console-like scrollwork cartridge which contains a transversely oval inscription cartridge. Outside the pilasters, the aedicula is flanked by scrollwork with angel heads. In the gable you can see fruits with a pedestal and an alliance coat of arms cartouche. The memorial is designated with CS. For the wife of Michael Baylandt's caretaker, Anna Maria Proyn († 1662), a square red marble inscription plate was erected. Another grave monument can be found for the last prior of the Dominican monastery and first secular pastor of Kircheim, Josef Vogt († 1836). The white marble slab contains an inscription. The aforementioned grave monuments are on the north wall of the chapel. Opposite, on the south wall, there are more grave monuments. The monument to Joseph Hofmann, quiesc. Is made from Solnhofen limestone with an engraved edge and Gothic inscription. Hochgräf. Fuggers. Rentrath († 1839) made. A small square slab, also made from Solnhofen limestone, bears the inscription: SEPULTURA / FRATRUM / PRAEDICATORUM / ANNO 1805. The fragment of a rectangular slab in the floor dates from the 17th or 18th century. It bears a minuscule inscription.
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 586 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 164-165 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-158-8
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 25.9 ″ N , 10 ° 28 ′ 39.3 ″ E