Holy Seven Brothers (Discontinued)

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Church of the Holy Seven Brothers in Unterrieden

The Catholic parish church of the Holy Seven Brothers is located in Unterrieden , a district of Oberrieden in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building. The patronage of the church refers to the seven sons of St. Felizitas .

history

The church in Unterrieden was formerly a branch of the Pfaffenhausen parish and received relics in 1167 from the Ottobeurer Abbot Isengrim. Bero I. von Rechberg donated a benefit in 1459 . From 1623 until the 18th century, the church was attached to the parish of Westernach. The elevation to the curate took place in 1817, that of the independent parish in 1861. The steeple and the walls of the choir of the church are late Gothic and date from the 15th century. Most of the church building collapsed in 1605 due to the poor state of construction. As a result, the reconstruction took place in 1623. The interior of the church was renewed and replaced in 1680. The consecration of the church took place in 1710 by the auxiliary bishop Johann Kasimir Röls. The ceiling painting of this church shows Saint Felizitas with her sons. The fire inspector and master builder Peter Klein from Mindelheim built a new Romanesque building in the years 1882 to 1884, in which he incorporated the older building components. The new building was carried out by the master mason Stark from Pfaffenhausen and the master carpenter Schmid. The demolition of the previous building began on June 10, 1882. On July 25, 1882, the topping-out ceremony for the new building was celebrated. The high altar was inaugurated a year later on the 1st Sunday of Advent in 1883. Bishop Pankratius von Dinkel consecrated the church on July 13, 1884. The pillars and capitals of the portal come from Mannheim, while the rest of the stone carving was carried out by Müller from Pfaffenhausen. The stucco, created in 1883, comes from Hermann Kolb from Augsburg . Xaver Zimmermann created the ceiling painting and the decorative paintings in the same year. The rest of the furnishings were made in the years 1882 to 1884 by the Babenhausen carpenter Wilhelm Engel. The Munich Leopold Mutter created the figures of the high altar in 1883 and those of the side altars in 1884. In the course of the renovation in 1966/1967, the new Romanesque interior was removed.

Building description

Exterior of the church

The hall building with a flat ceiling contains a double gallery on the west side . The walls of the nave are structured by blind arcades over pilasters . The retracted choir adjoins the nave, with four axes, with a three-sided end. The choir, which deviates slightly to the north on the axis, contains a stab cap barrel . The choir arch, between the choir and nave, is profiled and has a rounded arch. Outside the church is structured by pilaster strips , below the eaves there is a tooth-cut frieze. The buttresses up to half the height of the choir are still late Gothic. Above that there are kinked pilaster strips and a tooth cut frieze. The church is accessed through the portal on the west side. This is flanked by two-pillar arched arcades, above a gable. In the tympanum there is a round screen with the relief of an angel. On the north side is the square church tower with six stories. There are slot windows on the ground floor, corner pilasters are installed on the four upper floors above. On the top floor there are double arcades with a neo-Romanesque central column. The church tower is finished with a pointed helmet. The sacristy on the south side of the church was built in the 19th century.

Furnishing

inside view

The life-size crucifix in the choir is made of wood and dates from the second half of the 16th century. There are also several neo-Gothic figures in the church that represent the seven holy brothers, saint Sebastian , Leonhard and the four evangelists . The trumpet angel on the gallery parapet was created around 1700. The classical processional cross is made of brass and silver . The Eternal Light is designed as a traffic light with an anthemion and garlands and dates from the early 19th century. The chairs are neo-Gothic, the baptismal font and the holy water font are neo-Romanesque.

  • Neo-Gothic group of figures of the holy Seven Brothers

  • Crucifix in the choir, 16th century

  • Trumpet angel on the gallery

Web links

Commons : Holy Seven Brothers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 1043-1044 .
  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 507-508 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry D-7-78-183-9

Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 50.9 ″  E