The Grünwinkel Chapel in Eurasburg is currently being restored.
During the preparatory work, the experts made a surprising discovery.
The Grünwinkel Chapel is in the municipality of Eurasburg
The little church was built in 1760
A baroque painting was uncovered during the restoration work
Her job was to restore the Grünwinkel Chapel in Eurasburg.
Not a big deal for church painter Wolfgang Reitschuster and stucco master Winfried Schindele.
But when the two experienced specialists carried out the preparatory work shortly before Christmas in order to be able to restore the "neat rural baroque furnishings" of the chapel, which was built in 1760, they made a surprising discovery: an old, baroque painting appeared under the current ceiling painting.
It should now be exposed again.
The chapel should be renovated in 2014
The restoration of the chapel should have been started for a long time.
An excerpt from the community gazette from December 2013 shows that the community council had already at that time in favor of “renovating the facade of the Grünwinkel Chapel in 2014” and providing the appropriate budget.
In addition, a notice should be attached about the donor couple.
That worked promptly.
Since then, every visitor can read that the chapel was built in 1760.
It is a foundation of the couple Ferdinand Freiherr von Schrenck and Maria Anna Freifrau von Schrenck (née Countess von Hörwarth zu Steinach), the owners of the castle and Hofmark Eurasburg at the time.
The couple is buried in the monastery church of Beuerberg, in front of the altar of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Now the restoration work could finally begin.
This was the last time in the 1980s, knows master plasterer Winfried Schindele (51), who is responsible for “plastic work, cosmetics”, as he calls it - “removing plaster and smoothing out lime”.
Since the last cosmetics, the base area has been soaked up with salt again, both inside and outside, which is why the plaster was first knocked off the masonry with hammer drills.
The walls can dry out during the winter, but they are plastered again in the spring.
Inscriptions appear
Interesting “wall paintings” were uncovered inside the chapel.
“Many people have immortalized themselves in the plaster in old German”, explains the master plasterer who lives in the Kaufbeuren area, explaining the sayings that seem like pale doodles to laypeople.
“Maybe they were people who were helped,” speculates Schindele.
"An inscription from 1765 has come to light again, one is from 1799. That fascinated us".
If the work continues, the old inscriptions should be identified.
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At work: master church painter Wolfgang Reitschuster (left) and master plasterer Winfried Schindele remove the salty plaster in the plinth area of the chapel.
© Rudi Stallein
A discovery made by Wolfgang Reitschuster (61) aroused even more amazement.
He should "preserve" the ceiling painting.
“That means: cleaning, consolidating layers of paint and retouching where necessary.” But that turned out to be a bit difficult because painting is difficult to clean, explains the master church painter from Walleshausen in the Landsberg am Lech district.
But then he noticed a few cracks: “Underneath is a relatively brilliant painting.” Reitschuster explains that the old, baroque painting was painted into the wet plaster at the time and is inseparable from it.
At his suggestion, the overpainting is removed and the old fresco, which can already be seen in a few small, exposed “windows”, is brought back to life.
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