St. Wendelin (Gronau)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Wendelin in Gronau , a district of Stetten in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria belonged to the Mindelheim parish until 1923 and then moved to the Erisried parish . Erisried has been providing pastoral care to Gronau since the 17th century. Matthias Kreutzer from Dirlewang built the listed chapel in 1823.
Building description
The small church building is a flat-roofed building with a semicircular closed apse . There is a rectangular window on each of the long sides, the access to the chapel is through a rectangular door on the west side. Outside there is a flat protruding eaves cornice and profiled sloping gable. There is a square roof turret with a cornice above the west gable . There are small arched openings in the upper part of the ridge. The roof turret is covered with a tent roof .
Interior
The wooden altar set dates from the 19th century and is executed in a late Classicist-Neo-Romanesque hybrid form. The altar has a box style . The altarpiece above it, painted on wood, shows St. Wendelin . It is flanked by Tuscan staggered interior columns and recessed exterior columns. The altar structure is completed with a retracted rectangular gable. The lecture cross with a small corpus with wounds comes from the middle of the 18th century. The stalls were created in the 18th or 19th century. It has curved board cheeks.
Web links
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 129 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry D-7-78-199-7
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 58.5 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 56.3 ″ E