St. Mauritius (Doldenhausen)
St. Mauritius is a Roman Catholic chapel in Doldenhausen , Upper Swabia , a district of Mindelheim . The chapel was built around 1660 and consecrated on January 25, 1675. A restoration took place in 1785.
Building description
The chapel has a recessed, roughly square choir with lateral transverse oval windows. The choir is separated from the nave by a round arched, non-reentering arch . The rectangular nave has two transverse oval windows in the south, in the west there is a basket arch door between round peep windows. The entire chapel has a wooden, painted field ceiling , which is decorated in the nave with turned tenons at the intersection of the strips. Old brick paving with a herringbone pattern has been laid in the nave, and Solnhofer tiles are in the choir . An octagonal roof turret over the west gable stands on a square base that merges into a profiled cornice . The top is covered with sheet metal.
Furnishing
The cassettes are decoratively framed with pearl rod. A ceiling painting from 1660 with the Holy Family , God the Father, the Holy Spirit and above two angels is located in the elongated octagonal central field, the four church fathers are shown in the side fields .
A rectangular altarpiece in the altar consecrated in 1675, which is believed to date from the 18th century, shows Saint Mauritius . In the lower part of the picture there is a view of the town with the chapel. On both sides of the picture are pillars wrapped in vine leaves. On the outside there is a grotesque ornament. The entablature consists of cranked triglyphic entablature with small gable pieces. A small putti from the 18th century is placed in front of the last gable . The altar extension with a round arch cover and the wooden painting of St. Andrew flank volute pilasters. Next to it is a statuette of the risen Savior from the mid-18th century.
The stalls with curved plank cheeks were probably created in the 18th century. All the figures in the chapel are captured. An Immaculata and a Saint Joseph were made in the middle of the 18th century. Two angel heads date from the third quarter of the 17th century.
There are several votive pictures on wood in the chapel. A one meter high shows a kneeling couple in front of their herd of cattle. Above it are Maria , Wendelin and Mauritius as intercessors before Christ . The inscription reads “When Anno 1746 A really dangerous Pestilencische Addiction under Ross and Vüch broke down, so Joseph Schorrer, baur in Doldenhaussen gets engaged to his housewives to the holy Vich cartridges, Sanckt Windelin, and / Sanckt Mauritius, so is Im painted Joseph. No piece of nit sickness Vill less one fallen, god and Maria, also because holy patrons are / Eternal praise and thanks in all eternity, Amen. ”A second picture with a kneeling man between Saints Andreas and Matthias and a cross relic above comes from From the 18th century. The lower part of the picture bears the inscription “When I was injured Mathias Schmid von Mittel Rieden for 3 years, I promised myself alharo to St. Creutz and St. Andre- / as 3 Friday in a row, God is on it so be praise soon better ”.
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literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 102-103 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 59.4 ″ E