St. Wendelin (Schöneberg)
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The Roman Catholic St. Wendelin Chapel is located in Schöneberg , a district of Pfaffenhausen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The chapel is a listed building. From 2005, the chapel was extensively renovated, including the restoration of earlier paintings inside.
location
The chapel is about 800 meters west of the village at the intersection of Schöneberg-Breitenbrunn and Bundesstraße 16 .
history
The chapel was built in 1685 by the local farmer Georg Salger as atonement for a host sacrilege . Hosts stolen from Holzgünz were burned at the same place in 1676. The chapel was consecrated on October 14, 1685 by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Johannes Eustache Egolf von Westernach . In 1806 a bell was removed from a turret that still existed at the time.
Building description
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The building consists of a single nave nave with a flat ceiling . The nave is divided by pilasters . This is followed by the drawn-in three-sided choir . The exterior has a profiled eaves cornice. The slopes of the west gable are profiled. The west door is doubled in a diamond shape, with a new sign in front of it .
The choir has a semicircular barrel over a grooved cornice. The wall structure is achieved by pillars around which a surrounding cornice is cupped. There is a semicircular aperture above each axis. In each of the west gables there is a triangular gable on the cornice, while the others have transverse oval windows. A flat arched niche is located in the apex of the choir. The choir arch is round-arched and decorated with a cornice. Before the restoration in 1970, the year 1685 was frescoed there. The short, flat-roofed nave has three axes. The wall structure is achieved by Ionic pilasters with a cranked, three-part entablature, which is rudimentary in the corners. In the two eastern axes there are transverse oval windows, in the western axis a gallery with a paneled wooden parapet. The door in the west is arched.
Furnishing
The chapel has three altars made in 1685 made of blue, black and red marbled wood with gilded, simple auricle ornaments. The high altar has a concave stipes , with sloping corners from the years around 1720 to 1730. The structure is two-pillar with a cranked entablature. The rectangular altarpiece shows a coronation of Mary by the Holy Trinity . In the lower area you can see the chapel patron Wendelin with a flock and St. Anthony of Padua . The gable has been blown up. The excerpt has cranked entablature and a round painting on wood with Saint George fighting a dragon. The altar crucifix and the four wooden candlesticks are late classical.
The two side altars have two-column superstructures with capped beams and a blown gable. The altarpieces are rectangular and show the Holy Family in the north altar and Mary with her parents in the south . The extension has two columns and also has a cranked entablature. There are wooden oval pictures inside. The northern one shows God the Father , the southern one Saint Michael.
The 15 stations of the cross date from the first half of the 18th century and are made of oil on canvas. They were restored in 1970. The knee benches date from the 18th century and have baluster-like, curved board cheeks. They consist of unmounted softwood .
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 964 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 427 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-187-32
- ↑ Melanie Hofmann: Thanks to brazen thieves. Augsburger Allgemeine, August 18, 2011, accessed January 2, 2015 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 21.3 " N , 10 ° 25 ′ 25.8" E