Ölbergkapelle Kuchl

The Ölbergkapelle Kuchl stands beside the parish church in the village cemetery. Built in 1861, it is a single-storey rectangle topped with a simple pitched roof. Two pointed doors pierce the short ends, and the long walls carry two neo-Gothic windows beneath a gable cross. Inside, a two-bay rib-vaulted ceiling shelters a late-baroque oil-mountain group whose painted backdrop was created by Josef Rattensperger. An Albertus panel on the wall shows the saint receiving nine practical rules of life that should be followed humbly according to God’s will. Visitors step into a quiet chamber where the only light falls through the coloured glass of the neo-Gothic windows. The plain plaster walls and dark wooden pews keep the focus on the painted scene and the carved figures of Christ and his disciples.