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Tautenhofen
(Stadt Leutkirch)
Lkr. Ravensburg
Baden-Württemberg

Winterberg
(Galluskapelle)

Die drei Allgäuheiligen

The Three Saints of Allgäu

Sts. Gall, Columbanus and Magnus

Bonifatius Stirnberg
2000

Description

Statue of saints Gall (with a bear), Columbanus (with a sun) and Magnus (with a dragon). The group stands in front of the Galluskapelle, an ecumenical highway chapel off the A 96 on the Winterberg near Tautenhofen.

Tautenhofen - Die drei Allgäuheiligen

St. Gallus / St. Gall - (Ireland c. 550 - Arbon c. 646), Irish disciple and one of the traditional twelve companions of Saint Columbanus on his mission from Ireland to the continent; portrayed as an abbot blessing a bear that brings him a log of wood (Wikipedia)
St. Kolumban / St. Columbanus - (Navan, Ireland 540 - Bobbio, Italy 615), Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries on the European continent from around 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms (Wikipedia)
St. Magnus von Füssen / St. Magnus of Füssen (8th century), missionary saint in southern Germany, also known as the Apostle of the Allgäu (Wikipedia)

Inscription(s)

die drei allgäuheiligen

gallus – magnus – kolumban

skupturengruppe
'allgäuheilige'
gallus – magnus – kolumban

gestiftet von den
oberschwäbischen
elektrizitätswerken (oew)

Geschaffen von Bonif. Stirnberg Aachen
2000

Tautenhofen - Die drei Allgäuheiligen

Sculptor

Bonifatius Stirnberg (Freienohl 1933), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Location (N 47°48'10" - E 9°58'45")

Item Code: debw299; Photograph: 7 October 2014
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