St. Michael (Kienberg)

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Chapel of St. Michael in Kienberg
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The Catholic Chapel of St. Michael in Kienberg , a district of the Upper Bavarian municipality of Bernbeuren in the Weilheim-Schongau district , was built in 1727. The chapel on a hill above Lake Haslach is a protected architectural monument .

history

In 1727, the owners Michael and Walburga Schilcher of the adjacent courtyard commissioned the builder Johann Georg Fischer to build the chapel. The reason for the construction was to give the house altar in the courtyard building a worthy setting. In the year the owners at that time had the altar and the holy figures restored by Matthias Kraut . After Xaver Kaufmann donated it to the St. Vitus Church Foundation in Rettenbach in 1979, the chapel was completely renovated and renovated both inside and out due to severe damage to the structure.

description

The baroque hall building with a strongly recessed apse has a roof turret with an octagon and onion dome above the west gable .

Detail of the altar

Inside, the is Archangel Michael consecrated chapel flat arched; the nave has rounded corners. The altar from the year 1674, which in the chapel room has a graceful appearance, has an altar sheet, based on a model by Guido Renis , by Bernhard Ramis around 1730 with the depiction of Lucifer's fall from hell by Archangel Michael . The nave fresco of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was created in the 1720s by the great Swabian fresco artist Johann Baptist Heel . Also worth mentioning are the niche figures (1st half of the 18th century) on the rounded corners and the pictures of the Stations of the Cross from 1770.

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Web links

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

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 45.3 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 57.5"  E