Branch church of Our Lady on the Mountain
The Catholic branch church of Our Lady on the Mountain in Füssen in the Ostallgäu district in Bavaria was originally built in the Middle Ages and redesigned in 1682. The church is a protected architectural monument .
history
The church was probably built in the fourteenth century as a chapel and cemetery for the Füssen leprosy house built around 1300 . The house on the other side of Tiroler Strasse was demolished in 1968 in order to widen the street. In 1682/83 the church was rebuilt by the Wessobrunn master builder Johann Schmuzer , and the new building was inaugurated in 1685.
In 1735, Johann Georg Fischer added a single nave, barrel vaulted nave with a west gallery. A sacristy is separated off in the eastern choir bay with a partition wall.
In the middle of the 19th century, the three-sided end was redesigned as a chapel at the beginning of the Stations of the Cross on the Füssen Calvary, which was laid out around 1840 by the parish priest Johann Baptist Graf . The name of the church could indicate a Maria-vom-Berg-Karmel-Kirche .
Around the church there was an abandoned cemetery that was also used as a plague cemetery. The listed tombstone of the postmaster Socher, which is now set into the wall next to the entrance to the Füssen post office, comes from this cemetery.
architecture
A special feature was the access from the leper house into the church, which was set up as a bridge over the street. The bridge allowed the residents of the Leper House opposite to enter the church without having to enter the street. The entrance, which has now been walled up, can be seen from the street a good two meters above the ground in the wall of the nave under the central nave window.
A wooden false ceiling has been drawn in above the church. The space created in this way served as a bedroom for pilgrims, who at that time used the route of the historic Via Claudia that led past the church in large numbers for the pilgrimage to Rome.
Furnishing
The interior of the church was designed by Wessobrunn master builder and plasterer Johann Schmuzer in the early Baroque with heavy acanthus stucco with angels, shells and fruit hangings.
organ
The organ dates from 1774 in the workshop of the organ builder Andreas Jäger in Füssen . Jäger died before the organ was finished; the building may have been completed by the Tyrolean organ builder Joseph Anton Weyrather . Weyrather can be verified with work there a few years later. Neither orders nor invoices are verifiable for the construction of the organ, which suggests that the construction was a kind of “neighborhood aid” from Jäger, who lived just a few meters from the church in Tiroler Straße.
The organ front painted by Joseph Anton Obermiller is unusual with four fields, usually an odd number of fields is used to present a large pipe in the center as a symmetry axis. The bellows are housed in the attic and are controlled by two cords hanging down from the vault. The wind tunnel comes down visibly from the vault. The unusual construction is due to the low gallery, as a pilgrim accommodation was set up in the attic of the church.
The organ has the registers hollow flute 8 ', Gedackt 8', Quintatön 8 ', Gamba 8', Principal 4 ', Mixtur 1 1 ⁄ 3 ', Subbass 16 'and a pedal coupler .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '50.1 " N , 10 ° 41' 54.9" E