St. Maria (Bossarts)

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Chapel of St. Mary in Bossarts
Altar of the Chapel of St. Mary in Bossarts

The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Maria is a small church building from the 18th century and is located in the hamlet of Bossarts near Wolfertschwenden in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria . The chapel in the middle of the hamlet, directly on the thoroughfare, is a listed building and faces south-west.

Building description

The building consists of a rectangular interior, to which the apse, closed on three sides, adjoins. The chapel was built around 1778. There are arched windows on both sides of the small, flat-roofed nave . In the oblique axes of the apse there is a transverse oval ox-eye and a small circular window in the front. Access to the chapel is through a rectangular door on the west side. Above that there is a small ridge with a tent roof . The chapel is covered with a gable roof .

Furnishing

The wall paintings in the chapel date from the time the chapel was built around 1778. In the three-sided end of the choir an angel is depicted with a fantasy vedute depicting a city and landscape. A medallion on the ceiling of the chapel depicts the Infant Jesus of Prague . The ceiling painting is marked with 1792 . Furthermore, the representation of St. Sebastian is located inside, above the entrance door .

On the concave curved marbled canteen of the altar there was originally a mounted Gothic statue of Mary , which was created around 1490. The figure of Mary, the lower part of which has been cut off, is now in the Church of St. Cyriakus in Niederdorf and has been replaced by another standing figure of Mary. On the left side wall between the two windows there is a group of guardian angels made of wood from the middle of the 18th century. The Way of the Cross from the 18th century is painted on 15 wooden panels .

  • Holy figure of Theodor Tiro

  • Ceiling painting depicting the Infant Jesus of Prague, marked 1792

  • Guardian angel group, around the middle of the 18th century

Web links

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

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 79 .
  • Information brochure "Sankt Cyriakus, Largus and Smaragdus in Niederdorf, 300 years, 1710–2010" .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-218-10

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 3.9 "  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 40.4"  E