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The Catholic parish church Heilig Geist is a late Gothic church building in Durach in the Oberallgäu district in Bavaria , which is listed in Durach's list of monuments .
history
The church is a late Gothic building that has served as a parish church since 1527. During archaeological excavations in 1997, the foundations of a presumably Romanesque church were found. In 1754 the church was lengthened and the building was also given a Baroque style . The ceiling painting in the nave was created in 1875. The church tower dates from 1569 and was raised in 1882. A restoration with stucco and fresco took place in 1905 and 1906.
Building description
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The church building is located in the center of the village and is surrounded by the cemetery and a cemetery wall. The nave consists of five window axes. In 1754 a gallery was added to the west side of this. To the with a gable roof covered nave, the three sides closed closes east choir on. The choir contains a sacrament niche and extends the nave across the width of the choir with two window axes. There is a round arched choir arch between the nave and the choir and a pressed barrel vault in both the nave and the choir . With the exception of an oval window in the third yoke of the nave, all the other windows are rounded. The oval window on the west side is above the modern sign with its arched entrances. In place of an apse-shaped extension on the west side, a new sign was built in 1905/1906. This is where the stairway to the gallery is located. The church tower in the northern corner of the choir was built from rolled and quarry stone masonry. There is a barrel vault in the basement and tracery windows on the bell floor. The spire of the church tower was placed 1,882th The church tower was formerly covered with a gable roof. The sacristy is a modern extension that adjoins the church tower to the west.
Furnishing
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Altars
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The high altar has side passages against the former sacristy in the choir head. The altar was renewed in 1875 and revised in 1905/6. The round-arched altarpiece shows a figure of Mary , each flanked by a column. To the right and left of it there are figures of the apostles Peter and Paul , each of which is flanked by a smaller column on the outer edge. Standing angel figures are present on the entablature above the side figures. The figure of God the Father is enthroned in the altar extension .
The two side altars on the choir arch were only added during the last restoration and their structure follows the side altars at the junction of the nave. There are also two aedicules in the church , which consist of columns with two angels' heads. These columns date from 1700. Acanthus jewelry was added around 1905/6.
The altar leaves of the side altars at the transition from the nave to the choir show St. Magnus von Füssen (1772) to the north and a guardian angel troop (1771) to the south. Both works are signed by Franz Josef Hermann . On the cafeteria of the north side altar there is a Pietà , on the south there is an Anna herself . The latter dates from around 1490. In the excerpt from both side altars, the figure of Saint Appolonia is present to the north and the figure of Saint Barbara to the south .
On the side of the choir arch to the main altar is the figure of St. Theresa of Avila on the left and that of Blessed Crescentia of Kaufbeuren on the right . Formerly in their place were the Gothic figures of St. Afra of Augsburg and Catherine of Siena . The figure of Afra is missing, however.
pulpit
The pulpit of the Heilig-Geist-Parish Church dates from around 1700 in a new version . Figures are carved on the polygonal basket: Moses and the four doctors of the church . On the scrolls of the sound cover are trumpeting angel attached.
Baptismal font
The font consists of a sandstone basin on an octagonal foot. The lid of the baptismal font is crowned by a group of Rococo figures depicting the baptism of Christ . The group of figures dates from the middle of the 18th century.
Grave slabs
There are tombstones in the western sign . Three of them are adorned with acanthus and labeled 1698, 1740 and 1745. Georg Proll's († 1716) grave slab is draped with a curtain . Under the pulpit is a metal cartouche belonging to Pastor Franz Xaver Mayr († 1788).
Remarkable
On January 31, 1692, Baron Rudolph von Grimming died in Durach, to whom the founding of the pilgrimage sites Maria Plain and Maria Trost go back.
literature
- Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 83f.
Web links
- Church guide : Durach - Hl. Geist In: pg-durach.de (accessed on August 24, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-80-120-1
- ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 83.
- ^ Parish registry Durach, death registry, vol. II, p. 2 .: »31. January 1692. Prænobilis dominus Rudolphus de Griming omnem mundanam dignitatem et divitias spernens et solis elemosynis sponte oblatis vivens omibus sacramentis provisus obdormivit in domino. « (» January 31, 1692. The noble Lord Rudoph von Grimming passed away with all the sacraments He despised worldly honor and wealth. He lived on alms given voluntarily. " Quoted from: Margot Luda / Franz Xaver Greß: Wallfahrtskirche Maria Trost near Nesselwang in Allgäu , Anton H. Konrad Verlag: Weißenhorn 1986, p. 4 and note p. 22.
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 49.4 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 38.9 ″ E