Andreaskapelle, Gothic chapel in Passau, Germany.

Andreaskapelle is a Gothic chapel in Passau with tall walls, pointed arches, and intricate stonework that draw your eye upward. Inside, the vaulted ceilings and colored windows create a sense of vertical space, with light streaming through in a gentle way.

Built in the early 14th century as the burial chapel of Passau's cathedral canons, it ranks among the earliest hall chapels in Germany. Cathedral provost Otto von Layming funded the choir in 1414, which is also called the Erasmus Chapel. After the town fire of 1662 the chapel was baroquised during the cathedral's rebuilding, then re-Gothicised in 1841 and restored in 1960/61, when most of its tombs were moved to the Ortenburg Chapel and the cathedral courtyard.

The chapel's names recall its past: Andreaskapelle for the apostle Andrew, Herrenkapelle because it served the cathedral canons, and Kreuzwegkapelle from its former role on a cross-way. Weekday services are still held inside, though the interior is otherwise closed to visitors. The 1984/85 Eisenbarth organ shows Andrew with his cross and fishing net.

The chapel stands in the courtyard of St. Stephen's Cathedral, north of the Ortenburg Chapel. Its interior is otherwise closed to visitors, but weekday services are held inside, so attending one is the way to see it. The 1960/61 restoration moved most of the funerary monuments out to the Ortenburg Chapel and the cathedral courtyard.

The chapel's choir window by Robert Rabolt shows six sacraments, but the seventh, marriage, is missing. The organ built by Eisenbarth in 1984/85 has a case designed by Franz and Leopold Hafner whose prospect displays the apostle Andrew with his cross and a fishing net.