Assumption of Mary (Kirchhaslach)
The Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary is located in the municipality of Kirchhaslach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria.
history
The place and with it a first church was probably built in the extensive clearing period of the 12th / 13th. Century. The municipality is called “Greuth” in the local dialect, as a name for a cleared and arable area. The village name Haslach (dialect "Hasla"), which is derived from the brook "Hasel" or "Haslach" and speaks for a higher age of the settlement, was only later extended to "Kirch-Haslach" to distinguish it from other places of the same name. Stone Age radiolarite blades, so-called microlites, were found when the bridge was rebuilt in 2009 and during archaeological excavations in the industrial area in 2013 , so that Stone Age hunters and gatherers can already be assumed to be present in the Hasel valley.
13th Century
The later destination of the pilgrimage , a late Romanesque , carved and enthroned Mary with child , was created around 1220.
14th Century
The legend tells that the portrait of Mary found by Albrecht von Rechberg while hunting and brought to Babenhausen returned three times to the place where it was found in the Hasel valley. Initially attached to a tree, a wooden chapel was built, which was replaced in 1391 by a three-aisled church with a polygonal choir made of rubble stones, the foundations of which came to light again in today's north aisle during the last major interior renovation in 1968. A chaplaincy benefice Albrecht von Rechberg was confirmed on April 24, 1392 by the Augsburg Bishop Burkhard von Ellerbach.
15th century
The existing late Gothic building is marked with the year 1449 on the tower and 1470 on the choir. Its architecture is described as being influenced by the mendicant order churches and Upper Swabian parish churches.
16th Century
Anton Fugger, Lord of Babenhausen since 1539, set up a curate in Kirchhaslach.
17th century
The visitation of 1624 calls the church “parum ornata” (little decorated) and mentions four altars , from which the cross altar “propter commoditatem” will soon be removed. 1627: Foundation of the Arch-Brotherhood of the Rosary Queen (important for the iconography of the later Baroque renovation).
At a time of recovery after the devastating Thirty Years War :
Around 1680: The Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows is added on the west side with an altar at the same time. 1680/1681: new magnificent pulpit by carpenter Balthasar Eberle von Neuffen (probably Langenneufnach), figures by sculptor Johann Ludwig Ertinger von Kempten, barrel painting by Perlag Ertinger. 1682: the church was paved with "white stones" ( Solnhofen limestone ) instead of the previous brick floor. Possibly already at this time rounding of the ogival window openings and further baroque additions to the late Gothic architecture (vaults, pillars etc.). On November 20, 1686, the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Eustachius von Westernach consecrated four altars. The figures of the apostles on the walls are from 1693, in this context payments are made to a sculptor from Ottobeuren and a painter from Memmingen.
18th century
1707-10: Rich stucco work by Matthias Stiller († April 7, 1710) von Ettringen, probably with the assistance of his son Michael. Frescoes with Marian emblems and allegories , perhaps by the Memmingen painter Sichelbein (although of Lutheran denomination). 1715: new high altar (Augsburg work) with painting by Johann Georg Bergmüller . 1737: new organ by Augustin Simnacher von Tussenhausen (prospectus received). 1793: Exterior renovation ("the church and the tower ..." were bribed and plastered by three Italians, the principal's name was Josef Modini). 1797: new tabernacle in the form of the Ark of the Covenant by a sculptor from Ottobeuren (probably lost).
19th century
1808: Pilgrimages are abolished. 1836: Exterior renovation under master bricklayer Deprost von Babenhausen. 1868: Elevation to parish (but quasi parish rights since 1764). 1893: new font made of white marble (now outsourced). 1895–97: Interior renovation (including partly colored version of the stucco with gilding, windows with ornaments, antependium and tabernacle structure in Baroque style on the high altar new). 1898: consecration of the high altar (due to renovation).
20th century
1906: new organ work by Julius Schwarzbauer , Mindelheim. 1963: exterior renovation. 1968–70: interior renovation (provided that the changes made in the late 19th century are reversed).
21st century
2007/08 exterior renovation.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 582-584 .
- Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 135-147 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 57.9 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 35.3 ″ E