St. Ottilia (Rott)
The Catholic Chapel of St. Ottilia is located in the municipality of Rott in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech . The chapel dedicated to St. Ottilia was built in 1483 and redesigned in the 18th century in the Rococo style. The stucco work is by Johann Michael Merk from Rott, the frescos by Matthäus Günther from Tritschenkreut near Peißenberg and Sebastian Jaud from Wessobrunn .
history
As early as the Middle Ages, a wooden predecessor building is said to have stood on the site of today's chapel. Under the Wessobrunn Abbot Paulus II the old chapel was demolished and a new stone chapel was built. It is consecrated on August 13, 1483.
In the course of the 18th century, the ridge turret and the sacristy were built in 1725 and the chapel was designed in the Rococo style in 1775 under the Wessobrunn Abbot Engelbert Goggl . The abbot's coat of arms is in the choir arch.
The chapel and the dilapidated tower were last renovated in 2013.
architecture
The single-nave saddle roof construction with retracted polygonal choir dates from 1483, the originally late Gothic style can still be recognized by the buttresses of the choir room.
The roof turret with a baroque onion dome and the sacristy date from 1725. The west facade of the chapel is clad with wooden shingles, and until 1960 the chapel was surrounded by an enclosure wall.
Furnishing
Most of the interior of the chapel can be traced back to around 1775.
The malachite-green filigree stucco work was made by Johann Michael Merk from Rott.
The fresco above the choir probably comes from Matthäus Günther from Tritschenkreut near Peißenberg and depicts the baptism of the twelve-year-old duke's daughter Ottilia by Bishop Erhard von Regensburg , during which, according to legend, the girl who was born blind could see. The nave fresco is a late work by Wessobrunner Sebastian Jaud from 1823 and depicts the healing of the blind man through Christ.
In the center of the high altar is a late Gothic painted statue of the seated church patroness with her insignia, an open book with two eyes lying on it. In the extract of the altar there is a portrait of St. Leonhard , on the sides two large figures by Xaver Schmädl from Weilheim, St. Simon and St. Philip. St. Sebastian and St. Florian are also shown between the candlesticks .
On the covings of the ceiling there are symbolic representations of the four cardinal virtues - wisdom, justice, temperance and fortitude.
Web links
- Church leader parish community Lechrain (accessed on May 4, 2019)
- Church guide parish Rott (accessed on May 4, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ottilien Chapel. Retrieved May 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 39.9 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 16.6 ″ E