Unterjoch

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Lower yoke is a district of Bad Hindelang with about 350 residents, located at an altitude of 1013 m above sea level. Today, he is inundated with tourists.

History

The first evidence of the existence of the town dates back to the year 1471. 1690 received the Hindelanger Branch Chapel in lower yoke measuring the permission, in 1726 a Manualkaplanei was established and since 1868 the town has an independent parish. After the salt transport had come over the pass in 1823 a definitive halt, no extensive contact between the lower yoke and other localities took place more. This changed by the construction of the new Jochstraße 1895 to 1900, was revived by the even tourism. The proximity to the border with Austria led also to the fact that the customs official residence of Upper to lower yoke has been laid.

The municipality was formed Unterjoch new on January 4, 1867 from part of a territory of the municipality Hindelang and reintegrated on 1 April 1972.

Churches, chapels and shrines

The parish church of Holy Trinity, a plastered broken and rolling stone building with a gable roof, has, on the east side of a late gothic roof structure, but is essentially Baroque: A chapel was namely already in 1680; the altar, the year 1673 on. This chapel was when the measured permit has been issued, not yet ordained. In 1820 it was extended by a Jochanbau on the west side of the church, at this time she also got new windows. 1843 was enriched by a sign and got new altars. 1845 was the consecration of the church by Bishop Peter of Richarz and the construction of a new cemetery. 1870 were newly built tower and sacristy. 1910 was again an extension of the building to the west, in 1925, the sign was renewed.

The plastered ceiling has a flat korbbogiges barrel vault. In the nave there is now a fresco of the Holy Family. It is by J. Huwyler, in 1911 the existing up to that time neo-gothic wall decorations away. In the choir are the allegories of faith, hope and love to see works by Franz Osterried from the year 1843. On the high altar is a carved group of the Holy Trinity from the hands or the school of Johann Georg Bschorer. The pulpit dates from 1843 and is provided with paintings of the Evangelists. The first version of these images came from Johann Baptist Müller, it has been replaced by paintings of Huwyler in transforming 1911. The oil paintings of the Stations of the Cross by Franz Osterried 1911 were greatly changed.

The marble baptismal font with a Holy Spirit dove on the cover is from the year 1846. Apart from some early classical benches on the gallery is the stalls from the renovation of 1911. The Tabernakelschmuck designed Wendelin Matt, the Pietà of the altar cross the Oberammergau Ludwig Huber.

From the period of the High Baroque sculptures of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and the Holy Alexander and George Michael Beisch come. The dungeon Christ from the workshops of the Eberhard Melchior in Hindelang likely to have been created in 1750.

The church now has three bells, which form a major chord.

On Steineberg remember two shrines to the late 19th century to the concerns of a local resident to his descendants.

Also on Steineberg is the Anna chapel from 1877, which was built to fulfill a promise - even here the builders wished viable offspring. The chapel was renovated and given the last 2007.

In the district Krummbach the Trinity chapel from 1799, which was erected in gratitude for that the place from marauding Napoleon's troops had been spared. One of the bells, which originally belonged to the enslavers parish churches, hangs in the chapel. It has a neo-Gothic altar; the two side pieces - a John the Baptist and a Holy Ulrich - however, date from the middle of the 15th century. A votive picture of 1680 shows the Coronation of the Virgin in combination with a herd of cows.

The Lady Chapel at Hotzen from 1875 goes back to a vow of a farmer who wished viable children.

Near the eastern city limits Unterjochs is the Lohwies Chapel, which was consecrated in 2002. It contains a statue of the Sorrowful Mother of God.

The Chapel of the Assumption in the district Untergschwend was built of stones that were incurred by a large mudslide. On a wooden panel above the entrance is the inscription: This chapel has Joh Georg / secret. in Jahrr. In 1838. in honor of / Blessed Virgin Mary and her / Göttl. Son Jesus Christ, edifying / s leave. In the nave there are stucco rosettes. The altarpiece of 1837 shows the Assumption. In 1996, the chapel, which is not open to the public, renovated.

Additional points of interest

Prior to the morgue of the cemetery there is a early classicist crucifix, which possibly comes from Johann Richard Eberhard ( 1734-1813 ).

At the bridge over the Wertach at the western end of the village can be seen on the gable of a barn, the statue of St. John Nepomuk.

House No. 2 - the guest house for teeth - is a late-baroque farmhouse. It has a shingled Mittelstallbau and a living area.

Regular events

Every winter hosts an international sled dog race in lower yoke.