St. Margaret Chapel

The late Gothic chapel of St. Margaret is located in the eponymous hamlet in the municipality Münchwilen in the canton of Thurgau. The chapel was dedicated in 1642 and visited by Jacob pilgrims Schwabenweg.

Predecessor

Even in medieval times standing near a previous chapel, in 1316 the monastery Fischingen vergabte Heinrich and Lütold of Griesenberg, which so came into possession of the patronage and advocacies. It is believed that she has been at the Krebsbach or at Trungenbach. 1616 sold the abbot of Fischingen the chapel, but this was also in the Convention and in St. Margaret very controversial, so that the Abbot Placidus Brunschweiler the chapel acquired back in 1632. Soon after, however, he put them to cancel for a new building.

The present chapel

Abbot Placidus built during the Counter-Reformation to the present place a new building was consecrated on 26 September 1642 by the Bishop of Constance Franz Johann von Prassberg.

The chapel is built in the transition from Gothic to Renaissance. The building consists of a longitudinal rectangular nave of 8.5 × 12.5m and a small choir of 6.5 × 6.75 meters. On the umbrella sits a verbretterter roof skylights in Biedermeier shape.

The visitor first enters the roofed gallery of the reconstructed 1986 pilgrim porch, on whose walls are still sees an abundance of name trains, monograms, Signeten and years that were left by pilgrims of the past centuries. Then follows the lay vessel, followed by separated by the slightly pointed arched chancel arch altar house with the high altar.

The left side altar is dedicated to the Fourteen Holy Helpers, the right of the holy iddah.

The pilgrimage chapel is a typical example of the Lake Constance region widespread and continue living up to the middle of the 17th century Nachgotik. Typical of this era is also the strong and limited to a few colors painting of the chapel.