Unterammergau churches, chapels and wayside shrines

In the Upper Bavarian municipality of Unterammergau there are not only the main church of St. Nikolaus in the Unterammergau district, the Heilig Blut pilgrimage church ( Kappelkirche ) in the Kappel district and the Franz Xaver Chapel in the Scherenau district, but also smaller chapels, wayside crosses and wayside shrines. They are considered land monuments in Unterammergau , some of them are also registered as architectural monuments in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Chapel and Marterl ways

In order to bring these land monuments closer to the public, the community of Unterammergau has designated two chapel and martial paths, one to the left of the Ammer and one to the right of the Ammer, which lead past the more centrally located land monuments. The project was funded by the EU initiative INTERREG III B "Alpine Space". Further land monuments are scattered over the entire municipality of Unterammergau, there are around 80 in total.

Circular path to the left of the Ammer

designation	location	description	monument	image
St. Nicholas	Kirchgasse, near Dorfstraße ( location )	Catholic parish church, dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra , baroque hall with retracted choir and northern onion dome, by Germanicus Pecher, 1709, tower 1688/89	yes ( BLFD )
War memorial	Kirchgasse, in front of the church ( location )	Erected in 1928 in memory of the Unterammergau residents who fell in World War I.	No
Christ torso	Pfarrgasse 2, in the rectory garden ( location )	made of red sandstone, remnants of a wayside cross from Franconia	No
Arma Christi	Obere Dorfstrasse 21 ( location )	wooden cross with the tools of Christ's Passion on the west wall, 19th century	yes ( BLFD )
Lourdes grotto	on the way to the mountain cemetery ( location )	Erected in the second half of the 19th century to commemorate the apparition of Mary in Lourdes in 1858	No
Jagl's Marterl	next to Pürschlingstraße above the mountain cemetery ( location )	Memorial stone for Josef Raggl, who was fatally struck here by a hunter's bullet, inscription: “Hit by a hunter's bullet, the respected Josef Raggl died here on July 1, 1917 at 11 o'clock in the evening. As a loyal father of a family, he had to give up his life at home in the difficult days of the world war. RIP "	No
Schleifmühlkapelle	at the beginning of the path to the Schleifmühlenklamm ( location )	also called "Kapella", chapel shrine with saddle roof, 18th century, inside a replica of the figure of the scourged Savior from the Wieskirche , next to the chapel two martyrs for Unterammergau people who perished while working in the gorge	yes ( BLFD )
Barn cross	on the road to Scherenau ( location )	crucifix attached to the south gable of a barn	No
Gröbl Chapel	on the road to the youth home ( location )	Erected in 1995, named after the founder Marie Gröbl, inside a collection of pictures of the Unterammergau people who fell in the two world wars	No
Field cross "Stoamichl in the nest"	on the road to the youth home ( location )	Field cross in memory of the Unterammergauers who fell and were missing in the two world wars, inscription: "Crucified Lord Jesus, have mercy on the missing and give the deceased eternal rest"	No
Chapel in the corner	on the road to the youth home ( location )	built around 1850, inside figure of St. Nicholas	No
Sacred Heart Chapel	on the way to Mayersäge ( location )	built in 1898 by Jakob Wiedemann, inside a figure of Jesus pointing to her open heart .	No
Franz Xaver Chapel	in the center of Scherenau ( location )	Hamlet chapel, dedicated to St. Francis Xavier , small baroque hall with retracted choir and onion roof turret, 2nd half of the 18th century, altarpiece depicting the death of St. Franz Xavier, figures of the plague patron Sebastian and the cattle patron Leonhard .	yes ( BLFD )
Hanser's field cross in the nest	on the road to Scherenau ( location )	Erected by P. Speer as thanks for the happy return from the First World War, formerly the goal of a plea of ​​the Unterammergauers every Sunday	No
Wayside shrine	on Lachenbachstrasse ( location )	dedicated to " Our Lady of Ettal", redesign of a wayside shrine built in 1929	No
Alletseekreuz	Intersection Scherenauer Straße / Alletseestraße ( location )	Stone atonement cross, erected in 1910 by the foreman J. Alletsee, inscription: “I thank the Lord Jesus Christ / that you died for me. / Oh leave your blood and your pain / not to be lost in me - 1910 "	No

Circular path to the right of the Ammer

designation	location	description	monument	image
Seppala's cross	north of the train station ( location )	Wayside cross on the original course of the country road	No
Cross on the Kappelweg	Kappelweg 13 ( location )	Wayside cross at the bend of the Kappelweg	No
Mary's Grotto	on the footpath up to the Kappelkirche ( location )	in the style of a Lourdes grotto with a figure of the Queen of Peace, inaugurated in 1919	No
Rosary stations	on the footpath up to the Kappelkirche (locations: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 )	the five stations of the painful rosary, five stone wayside shrines with modern reliefs (currently (June 2011) without panels), 2nd half of the 19th century.	yes ( BLFD )
Pilgrimage Church of the Holy Blood ( Kappelkirche )	in Kappel on a hill ( location )	Pilgrimage church with holy blood relic, baroque hall building with retracted choir and northern late Gothic pointed tower, above late Gothic core, nave 1618, choir by Johann Schmuzer 1680, nave vault and uniform design by Xaver Schmuzer 1750/51	yes ( BLFD )
Xaveri Chapel	below the Kappelkirche ( location )	Path chapel, saddle roof building with a statue of St. Franz Xaver	No
Hoad Chapel	on the path along the Engen Laine ( location )	Path chapel, neo-Gothic saddle roof with plaster structure, mid-19th century, Pietà and pictures of Saints Gregorius and Isidorius	yes ( BLFD )
Reindl-Marterl	next to the Hoad chapel on the path along the Engen Laine ( location )	Memorial plaque for Genoveva Reindl, who was shot there by an American plane in the last days of the Second World War	No
Streitl's cross	on the path along the Engen Laine ( location )	Originally a grave cross in the parish church cemetery, moved here after being replaced by a tombstone	No

More chapels and wayside shrines

designation	location	description	monument	image
Arma Christi	Scherenau 5 ( location )	wooden cross with the tools of Christ's Passion on the east wall of the grain box, 19th century	yes ( BLFD )
Cemetery chapel	Bergfriedhof at the end of Pürschlingstrasse ( location )		No
Cemetery cross	Bergfriedhof at the end of Pürschlingstrasse ( location )		No
Cemetery cross	Cemetery at the parish church ( location )		No
Joseph Chapel	at Josefsflecken between the Langentalalm and the Pürschling houses ( location )	from 1989 built chapel for a figure of St. Joseph donated in 1907 , which until then was attached to a tree	No
Schartenkapelle	at the pass between Köpfel and Schartenköpfel ( location )		No
Lake chapel	on the way from the Waldalm to Schleifmühlenlaine ( location )		No

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Unterammergau

literature

• Hans Pörnbacher, Erwin Wiegerling: The churches and chapels of the community Unterammergau . 1st edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-394-9 .
• Günter Warmuth: Unterammergau chapels and torture paths . Ed .: Historical Working Group Unterammergau and Working Group Culture. Unterammergau.

Web links

Commons : Unterammergauer Kapellen- und Marterlwege  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Günter Warmuth: Unterammergau chapels and torture paths. In: www.ammergauer-alpen.de. Ammergauer Alpen GmbH, accessed on June 30, 2011 . 
• Chapels and land monuments in Unterammergau. In: www.pfarrverband-oberammergau.de. Parish Association Oberammergau, accessed on June 30, 2011 . 

References and comments

1. ^ Günter Warmuth: Unterammergauer Kapellen- und Marterlwege .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} This column indicates whether the property is entered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments. If so, the link to the description page of the monument at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLFD) is also given.

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