Mühlkapelle

Mühlkapelle stands on the right bank of the Kammel River in Krumbach, Germany, as a Baroque chapel. Its riverside setting places the small building beside the town’s waterway. Johann Hampp commissioned it in 1830 while owning the nearby Untere Mühle, now called Haus St. Michael. He needed access to a field and secured that right by building the chapel for the town.

Krumbach took ownership in 1926, while later restoration preserved the building’s interior and exterior. A Gothic Madonna from the Ulm School, dating from around 1500, stands inside the chapel. The statue arrived after the 1932 renovation, having previously stood in a neglected wayside shrine near a gravel pit west of Krumbach. A ceiling fresco shows the Holy Spirit and Christ’s baptism, surrounded by the four Evangelists.

The fresco is often linked to Pius Fröschle, although another member of the Fröschle family may have painted it. An inscribed picture recalls Marian protection during the bombing and wartime hardships of April 26 and 27, 1945. Extensive work in 2003 and 2004 renewed the chapel while retaining these layers of local history.