St. Maria (Engishausen)

Chapel of St. Maria, Engishausen

The Roman Catholic chapel of St. Maria in Engishausen , a part of the municipality of Egg an der Günz , in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria , was built as a votive chapel by a childless couple in the middle of the 19th century . The small, listed chapel building is a simple neo-Gothic building and stands at the northern end of the town of Engishausen.

It consists of a rectangular nave to which a slightly drawn-in choir adjoins with a 5/8 end. The nave and choir have a flat ceiling on a profile cornice. Two small ogival windows are built into each side of the nave. Access to the chapel is made by a pointed portal on the west side, by a profiled jamb is surrounded. There is a small arched opening above the entrance in the gable. A profiled eaves cornice surrounds the chapel. The combined ogival chancel arch between the nave and apse is reentrant. In the choir there is a small pointed arch window on each side.

The altarpiece is neo-baroque and painted in white and gold. On this is a rectangular picture of an Immaculata from the second half of the 19th century.

literature

• Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 80 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-130-9

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 37.8 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 8 ″  E