St. Wendelin (Gronau)

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St. Wendelin in 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

Roof turret over the west gable

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.

  • Mary figure

  • altar

  • Joseph figure

Web links

Commons : St. Wendelin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 129 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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