Kapelle, chapel in Wolkshausen, Gaukönigshofen, Bavaria, Germany
St. Sebastian Chapel in Wolkshausen, a district of Gaukönigshofen, is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1771 under Abbot Oswald Loschert of Oberzell Monastery. It has a nave and a three-sided apse to the east, with a square roof turret on the west end of the saddle roof, topped by a slate-covered onion dome. Inside, the high altar shows Saint Sebastian, flanked by side altars of the Mater Dolorosa and the Schmerzensmann dated 1772.
The chapel was built in 1771 under Oswald Loschert, abbot of Oberzell Monastery, and is listed as a Bavarian monument under the number D-6-79-134-79. It belongs to the parish community Zu den Schutzengeln im Gau in the Ochsenfurt deanery of the Diocese of Würzburg.
The chapel belongs to the parish community Zu den Schutzengeln im Gau in the Ochsenfurt deanery of the Diocese of Würzburg. Its high altar retable shows Saint Sebastian, the chapel's patron, while the left side altar holds a Mater Dolorosa and the right one a Schmerzensmann dated 1772.
The chapel stands in Wolkshausen, a district of Gaukönigshofen in the Würzburg district of Lower Franconia. It belongs to the parish community Zu den Schutzengeln im Gau in the Ochsenfurt deanery of the Diocese of Würzburg, and is listed as a monument under number D-6-79-134-79 in the Bavarian monument list.
The chapel was built in 1771 under Oswald Loschert, abbot of Oberzell Monastery, and is listed as a Bavarian monument under the number D-6-79-134-79. Its interior holds three altars: the high altar panel shows Saint Sebastian, the left side altar the Mater Dolorosa, and the right one the Schmerzensmann, dated 1772.
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