St. Veit (Ochsenhausen)
St. Veit is a Catholic cemetery chapel built in 1679 in Ochsenhausen in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia .
description
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The chapel is located below the fruit box of the former Benedictine Abbey of Ochsenhausen in a south-easterly direction, on Landstrasse 285 called Fürstenallee to Steinhausen an der Rottum . It is part of the cemetery of the city of Ochsenhausen and is located there in the north-western area. It is also called the Gottesackerkapelle St. Veit.
The octagonal building of modest spatial size has a small vestibule with a semicircular choir . The ceiling paintings from 1952 are by J. Braun. The subject of the altarpiece is the torture of Saint Vitus , who came from Sicily .
On the western outer wall of the chapel there are several plaques reminding of the fallen sons of the city of Ochsenhausen and the victims of violent crimes.
literature
- Dehio : Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '44.6 " N , 9 ° 57' 13.6" E