St. Rochus (Egg an der Günz)

St. Rochus in Egg an der Günz

The Roman Catholic St. Rochus Chapel is located in Egg an der Günz in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The chapel is a listed building .

Building description and history

The core of the chapel dates from the 16th or 17th century. In 1738 the chapel was renewed and expanded. The chapel is a single-nave building with three axes and a semicircular end. The outside of the chapel is structured with pilaster strips . The chapel has a roof turret from the 19th century and is covered with a tent roof.

Interior

Most of the equipment in the chapel is modern. There are several wooden figures in the chapel. These are a standing Madonna from the late 15th century, from the workshop of Ivo Strigel, as well as a Christ in prison and the figure of St. Rochus both from the second quarter of the 18th century.

literature

• Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 97 .
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 314 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-130-2 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 97

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 20 "  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 54.89"  E