St. Vitus (Zellhof)

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St. Vitus Chapel in Zellhof
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The Catholic Chapel of St. Vitus in Zellhof , a district of the community of Schöngeising in the Upper Bavarian district of Fürstenfeldbruck , was opened in the 12th and 13th centuries. Century built and in the 17th / 18th Century expanded and baroque . The chapel dedicated to St. Vitus is a protected architectural monument .

St. Vitus stands south of the manor in the middle of an abandoned cemetery on which only wrought-iron grave crosses from the 18th to 20th centuries are uniform .

The Romanesque hall building has a retracted, straight-closing choir and a roof turret . Small Romanesque arched windows can be seen in the choir , which have been released again.

The altar has a figure of St. Vitus from around 1670 in the middle. The late Gothic crucifix is dated around 1525/30. The flat coffered ceiling , which was transferred here in 1972, was created around 1600.

During the last renovation in 1971/72, Roman fragments and pieces of bricks were found here.

literature

  • Volker Liedke, Peter Weinzierl: District Fürstenfeldbruck (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.12 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-574-8 , p. 230 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments for Schöngeising (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '47.2 "  N , 11 ° 14' 32.3"  E