St. Nikolaus (Saulengrain)
The Roman Catholic St. Nikolaus branch chapel in Saulengrain , a district of the Apfeltrach community in the Unterallgäu district ( Bavaria ), was built in the middle of the 18th century and is a listed building.
history
The church of St. Nikolaus, built as a single building in the middle of the 18th century, was a pilgrimage destination in the past . The pilgrimage took place in honor of an image of Mary. Originally, the image was in a chapel on the way to Köngetried on the Kapellenberg, which was demolished in 1813. After the chapel was demolished, the portrait, a wooden statuette of Our Lady , was placed in a pear tree. On the occasion of the renovation of the St. Nicholas Chapel in the 1870s, the picture and the surrounding tree were transferred to the left side altar and placed there.
Building description
The church building is located in the middle of the village and faces southeast. The nave has two axes with arched windows and a mirrored ceiling. The cove of the mirror ceiling include thin profile cornices. The choir adjoins the nave through a semicircular choir arch that does not recede . This stilted semicircular choir contains two arched windows and, like the nave, a mirrored ceiling over a thin profile cornice.
There is a profiled eaves cornice on the outside of the chapel . The nave is provided with a saddle roof covered, the chorus with a conical rounded roof. Above the north gable is a turret on a square base with a profile cornice. The corners of the roof ridge are bevelled in the upper area and the corners are covered with pilaster strips . Arched openings are embedded in the main sides of the roof ridge. It is covered with an onion cap made of tin. The low sacristy is attached to the chancel in the southwest corner of the nave. It has a rectangular window and is covered with a hipped roof.
Furnishing
In the chapel there are three altars from the mid-18th century. These are all made of wood and marbled in red and gray-green and decorated with gold decoration. The main altar with a sarcophagus-shaped stipe is slightly concave in its structure. A rotating tabernacle is in the middle between the protruding pedestals. On both sides there are small, arched, closed reliquary shrines with busts of Jesus Christ and Mary . The round-arched altarpiece by Michael Stückle depicts St. Nicholas and dates from around 1870. This is flanked by pillars decorated with pilasters. Above that is a flat, curved and cranked entablature. The extension is broadly curved and limited by two volutes each . In the extract there is a group of figures of the Trinity and six putti .
The two side altars are set up at an angle in the two corners of the nave and, like the main altar, have sarcophagus-shaped stipes with a slightly concave structure. In the middle there is a curved frame at the top and bottom. In the left side altar, behind a barred niche, the image of grace, the framed wooden statuette of Our Lady from the first half of the 18th century, including pear tree bark, is placed. On the right side altar there is a picture depicting the death of St. Francis Xavier, probably from the 18th century. The painting is labeled Bammert Pfaffenhausen 1853 on the reverse . The name is likely to come from a restoration at that time, as it was previously damaged by a fire. The side altars are each flanked with Corinthian pilasters and columns with cranked entablature. Above in the excerpt is the Heart of Mary on the left and the Heart of Jesus on the right in a cloud ring with ray glory.
The stalls made of softwood date from around 1690/1700. The acanthus carved cheeks are curved and made of oak . The wooden figures of St. Ulrich and a crucifix date from the middle of the 18th century.
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 420, 421 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-113-19
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 51.3 " N , 10 ° 27 ′ 37.5" E