Kapelle St. Cosmas und Damian

Kapelle St. Cosmas und Damian stands in Nußdorf, a district of Überlingen, beside the local cemetery. Its Gothic exterior shows pointed arches and a simple rectangular hall-church plan. The surrounding old village centre includes the former town hall and school nearby.

Built in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the chapel ranks among Nußdorf’s oldest surviving buildings. Catholic and Protestant Christians have shared its religious use across the centuries. The Thirty Years’ War destroyed most of Nußdorf in the seventeenth century, but this chapel survived alongside one barn. Its cemetery setting still supports services, quiet reflection and remembrance.

Nußdorf’s settlement history reaches back more than five thousand years through lakeshore pile-dwelling remains. The chapel provides a tangible medieval link within a village shaped by later rebuilding. Dedicated to the twin martyrs Cosmas and Damian, it connects healing traditions with a remarkably enduring building.