Pilgrimage Church Maria Schnee (Kirchbrunn)
The pilgrimage church Maria Schnee is the Roman Catholic village church of Kirchbrunn , a district of the municipality of Heldenstein in Upper Bavaria .
history
The church was built between 1760 and 1762 on the orders of Provost Patritius Zwick von Au. It was consecrated in 1762 by the Salzburg Prince-Bishop Sigismund von Schrattenbach . In 1984 it was extensively restored.
description
Maria Schnee is a small, late baroque central building. The retracted choir consists of an irregularly curved apse . The north and south sides of the main room are curved. Its walls are structured by indented pillars with Corinthian pilasters in front . It is covered by a hollow vault with stitch caps .
The facade of the church and the ridge turret on the west side are structured with pilaster strips . The bell storey is octagonal in shape and is closed off by a typical baroque onion dome.
A little further, down the asphalt road, there is the covered “spring” and a crucifix.
literature
- The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria from the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. Volume 1: Gustav von Bezold, Berthold Riehl, Georg Hager: The art monuments of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria. Part 3: District offices of Mühldorf, Altötting, Laufen, Berchtesgaden. Verlag der Vereinigte Kunstanstalten, Munich 1905.
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 42.3 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 27.2" E