To the Seven Sorrows of Mary (Gernstall)
To the Seven Sorrows of Mary is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Upper Swabian Gernstall , a district of the city of Mindelheim . The church was probably built in the early 18th century. It was mentioned as newly restored in 1749. It was renovated between 1951 and 1952.
The building with a high base on the west side stands at the southern end of the village on the west side of the main road on a sloping terrain towards the west. The semicircular closed building has three axes with groin vaults without belts. There is a dome at the end of the choir . In the two eastern axes, transverse oval windows are embedded in the walls. In the north there is a double rectangular door from the 18th century with an octagonal pattern and a central rose. The eaves cornice and the sloping gable are profiled. A wooden square roof turret has recessed, round-arched sound openings. The tent roof is covered with sheet metal. Outside, in the apex of the choir, there is a small recessed, round arched niche with a profiled cornice .
The wooden altar from the middle of the 18th century is marbled with gilded and silvered decoration and a box stipes. The predella has five curved openings of different sizes. The tabernacle-like central opening, which is elevated by a semicircular cornice, contains a statuette of the scourged Savior. The broad, concave three-axis structure is supported by four Corinthian columns. A curved painting of the Pietà can be seen in the wider central axis . In front of it there are statuettes of St. Veronica and Dismas , the good thief , on a predella cornice. The extension is low and decorated with volutes . The wooden lattice in front of the altar was probably created around 1800.
The stalls date from the middle of the 18th century and have tail cheeks with rocailles and medium, scaled surfaces. The three wooden figures in the chapel, St. Wendelin , Paul and St. George on horseback as a dragon slayer, date from the middle of the 18th century.
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literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 128-129 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '47.2 " N , 10 ° 29' 39.2" E