St. Wendelin (mountain)
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The Roman Catholic St. Wendelin Chapel is located in Berg , a district of the municipality of Türkheim in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The chapel , built in 1746 by Johann Adam Stiller, a son of Michael Stiller, is a listed building. A semicircular closed apse adjoins the rectangular nave with a flat ceiling . Above on the gable side in the west is a roof turret .
history
The construction of a church building was approved as early as 1709 but was never carried out. When a cattle epidemic raged in nearby Ettringen in the 18th century , the farmers vowed to build a chapel for St. Wendelin. This was reported on March 14, 1746 by the pastor from Türkheim Johann Ignatius Wiekhart to the vicar general in Augsburg Johann Adam Nieberlein. Approval for the construction of the chapel was granted on March 21, 1746, and it was carried out in the same year. The costs for the erection, the painting and the altar amounted to 750 guilders. There was a hermitage next to the chapel until 1807. In 1769, 1778 and 1789 repairs to the chapel were carried out by master bricklayer Johann Georg Ege from Türkheim. Renovations then took place in 1827, 1831, 1832, 1844 and 1845, as well as 1864 and 1939 to 1942. The dilapidated sacristy was rebuilt in 1871 and demolished during the last renovation in 1971.
Building description
The small east-facing church building has a rectangular floor plan with a semicircular apse . A slightly receding choir arch with a mantelpiece divides the apse from the nave. During the renovation in 1941, the signature of the builder Hans Adam Stiller in Ettringen 1746 was uncovered on the choir arch . Both in the nave and in the apse there is a mirrored ceiling over profiled cornices. A three-part window group is attached to both sides of the nave. Arched windows are used in the apse. On the west side there is a paneled gallery with a protruding middle section. Access is via a rectangular door in the west wall of the chapel. On the west gable is a small octagonal roof turret on a square base.
Interior
The neo-Romanesque altar dates from the second half of the 19th century. The altar made of wood and framed has the shape of a round arched aedicula. The figure of St. Wendelin in a niche was created in 1863 by Otto Sieber from Türkheim. The fresco in the choir from 1746 shows the divine virtues . Johann Michael Schmitt created the ceiling in the nave in 1942. The gallery frescoes Wendelin praying in the hermitage , as patron of the countrymen, and Wendelin's death painted in 1942 by the Munich painter Josef Wittmann after Johann Michael Schmitt was killed in a bomb attack. The crucifix and the mater dolorosa , both made of wood and framed, were created around 1760 and are believed to have been made by Ignaz Hillenbrand . Originally both objects were in the parish church in Türkheim. The wooden figures on both sides of the choir arch represent Saints Francis and Anthony and date from the middle of the 18th century. The oval Stations of the Cross date from the first half of the 19th century . They were probably made by Ludwig Caspar Weiß and were previously in the parish church of Häder. The chairs with curved plank cheeks date from the 18th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 189 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 86, 87 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 6.6 ″ N , 10 ° 38 ′ 19.1 ″ E