Veitskapelle

Veitskapelle stands in Stuttgart-Mühlhausen am Neckar as a late Gothic evangelical church dedicated to Saint Vitus. Reinhart and Eberhart von Mühlhausen founded the chapel. Local noblemen connected to Emperor Charles the Fourth’s court shaped its beginnings, while the building retains its medieval character.

Medieval wall and vault paintings cover the interior. They present salvation from the Fall of Man to the Last Judgment, with biblical scenes and episodes from Saint Vitus’s life. Medieval altars add another layer to the chapel’s interior. One winged altar comes from the workshop of Theoderich of Prague. The chapel also holds epitaphs of the Lords of Kaltental and artworks from the destroyed Walpurgis Church.

The building has a rectangular nave with a flat beam ceiling and a vaulted choir with large Gothic windows. A square tower marks the chapel’s west side. The chapel also contains an organ built by Horst Kenter. The chapel underwent restorations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.