Maria Schnee, Church building in Mindelheim, Germany.

Maria Schnee in Mindelheim is a flat-roofed Romanesque Revival chapel with three window bays and a three-sided apse, built in 1871. Round-arched windows light the interior, and a moulded cornice runs below the ceiling. The west facade has a segmental-arched portal framed by aediculae, above which sits a square roof turret with four gables and a metal spire.

In 1803 a picture of Maria Schnee was found grown into an oak; the citizen Elisabeth Bodenmüller collected money and had a first wooden field chapel built, with the painting on its altar. A larger wooden chapel followed in 1819. In 1871 the wooden building was demolished and replaced by the present masonry chapel, paid for by master mason Andreas Scheu and merchant Josef Boneberger of Mindelheim; it was renovated in 1962.

The chapel is also called Eichetkapelle after the oak (Eiche) in which the image was found in 1803. The predella holds the small grace image painted on a piece of bark-covered tree trunk, a copy of the icon in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. A painting on the west wall shows the Battle of Lepanto, with Mary intervening from above.

The chapel stands slightly southeast of Mindelheim's centre, outside the town. Access is through a segmental-arched portal on the west side, framed by a wall-mounted aedicule topped with a pinnacle. The interior is a single flat-ceilinged room with three window axes, so a visit takes little time.

On the back of the canvas of the Lepanto painting hangs a second image: an allegorical tower with cannons and flags, inscribed NOMINI MEO ADSCRIBATVR VICTORIA. 2 Reg. 12. The battle scene itself shows Mary striking down lightning from above. Few visitors turn the painting around to see it.