Pilgrimage Chapel St. Maria (Babenhausen)
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel St. Maria is located in Babenhausen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church building, also known as the Aspenkapelle , was built around 1700 and renovated in the 19th century. It is a listed building.
Building description
The chapel is a small building facing north, the nave of which consists of two window axes and a mirrored ceiling. The short choir with its semicircular ending is slightly drawn in. It has a barrel vault that merges into a dome and a window on each side. The choir is connected to the nave by a wide, flat arched choir arch with a profiled transom and a profile-lined arcade . All windows of the chapel are wide with a segmental arch. A simple, baroque-style decorative painting can be found on the ceilings as well as on the choir arch reveal. An arched door on the south side provides access to the chapel. The two outer panels of the door have a simple carved decor from the first half of the 19th century. A profiled eaves cornice runs around the nave , which continues on the entrance front over the corners and on the sloping gables. The chapel is covered with a uniform gable roof . This means that the choir is a little higher inside and outside. There is a horizontal, profiled roof over the entrance door on the south side.
Interior
The altar was made of wood around 1700 and has a brown and gold frame from the 19th century. The structure consists of a flat arched niche in the middle with a fluted wall. In the niche, surrounded by an egg stick and acanthus frame , there is the painting Maria Mother of Beautiful Love from the 19th century. This is flanked by two Corinthian columns, of which the inner ones are staggered in front and the outer ones back. Attached to the segment gable is a broad, neo-baroque, carved cartouche with the painted coat of arms of the Fugger-Babenhausen princes . The coat of arms is marked 1837 and bears a cross as a crown.
The two wooden figures on either side of the altar date from around 1720 and are painted white and gold. On the left is a holy abbot without any further attributes . Presumably it is Saint Benedict or Saint Leonhard. St. Lawrence is shown on the right.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 161 .
- Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 37, 38 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-115-36
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 9.9 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 13.3 ″ E