St. Sebastian (Eching am Ammersee)
The St. Sebastian Chapel is a small Catholic village chapel in Eching am Ammersee (Upper Bavaria).
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history
The Sebastian Chapel was built around 1650 on the southern edge of the village green, right next to the village's plague column, in the Baroque style. Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of the chapel . The reason for the construction of the chapel was a pledge made by the citizens of the village during the plague epidemic of 1650. At that time, 20 people, over a tenth of the village population at that time, succumbed to the epidemic. In honor of Mary and Saints Sebastian and Rochus , the chapel was built on a public piece of land on the southern edge of the village and consecrated in 1651. In 1685 it was expanded and given its present shape, in 1754 the church received its present rococo furnishings.
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description
The exterior design of the building is unadorned. On the west side there is a small roof turret, which is closed by an onion hood . The interior of the chapel is decorated with stucco by the Wessobrunn plasterer Franz Xaver Schmuzer . The high altar, rich in details and figures, was created by the Landsberg sculptor Johann Luidl and shows figures of the Saints Sebastian, Rochus and Wendelin . On the long walls there are 2 good paintings, the left one shows the pastor Jakob Schorer as a donor, who built the parish church of the village and had the chapel equipped.
Since October 2016 there has been a service of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Utting-Dießen with the celebration of Holy Communion every two months.
literature
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 137-138 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 44.5 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 45.9 ″ E