Assumption of Mary (Eriskirch)

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Exterior view

The Catholic parish church of the Assumption in Eriskirch first is the parish church of the community and the other one of the oldest Marian sanctuaries in the area. The special thing about this medieval pilgrimage church is that it was not decisively renewed in the Baroque and thus shows the late Gothic condition.

history

The place Eriskirch is mentioned for the first time in 1257, a first Lady Chapel is recorded for 1278. In the Codex Maior Weingarten , the first church is mentioned in the second half of the thirteenth century; this is first mentioned as a parish church in Liber Taxationis 1353. The two bells "Four Evangelists " - it comes from the 13th century - and " Maria Hilf " from the 14th century still exist today and ring in the approx. 60 m high bell tower from the 14th century, which was built between 1409 and 1419 has been. The pointed helmet that can be seen today has only been around since 1869, as the original steep gable roof helmet was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1834.

View to the altar
View of the entrance and organ

During the Thirty Years War , the parish church Eriskirch was sacked and looted by the Swedish troops in 1634, the burned-out church was rebuilt in 1666, parts of the baroque style were renewed, so the two flat ceilings in the choir and nave date from this period.

The church consists of a nave and the choir, which were built at different times. In 2010 it was proven by dendrological studies that first the nave was built in 1387 and then the choir in 1409. The reason for this unusual type of construction may have been the number of pilgrims for whom the nave was needed, the Madonna of Mercy - who today stands on the left side altar and dates from 1350 - could still be venerated in the old choir. When the choir was built, it was built two meters higher than the nave. The subsequent elevation of the nave only took place during the Baroque era and can be demonstrated on the picture strips in the gallery. The nave is 12 m wide and is one of the few in southern Germany that is spanned by a roof of this width without additional hanging or trussing.

Also important are the smooth walls, which have been lavishly and colorfully painted with two picture cycles, so that believers who are ignorant of reading can use the pictures to teach them to lead a Christian life. In the ship this is a cycle with scenes from the New Testament , in the choir this is a cycle from the Old Testament , this distribution is striking, in most churches it is exactly the opposite. The type of church decoration was unusual in the Gothic period ; the first southern influences can be seen that brought this type of church decoration back over the Alps. The wall paintings of the church are important in German art history, it is one of the few remaining complete room paintings from the Gothic period.

The entire church was painted. During the renovation in 1932/33, only the entire choir (pictures 3 and 4 in the gallery) and individual pictures in the nave were exposed. The ceiling painting in the Maria Himmelfahrt choir is probably from 1750 by Anton Maulbertsch . In the nave, these are the arrest of Christ (picture 7 in the gallery), it is the first picture of the top of 3 picture strips on the north side. On the south side these are the Last Judgment (picture 6 in the gallery) reaching over two picture fields and from the bottom picture strip near the choir of the holiday Christians and the three living and the three dead (picture 2 in the gallery). On the pictures under the gallery (picture 8 in the gallery) are the Entombment of Christ , Resurrection of Christ , Martyrdom of St. Katarina and Martyrdom of St. See Agatha of Catania . The two colored windows visible in the choir were donated by the Counts of Montfort .

In 1932/33 a major restoration was carried out, in the course of which most of the historical works were uncovered, in the places where no more historical traces could be found, Josef and August Braun added new wall paintings and the ceiling painting, with the same theme as the ceiling painting in the Maria choir Ascension , mounted in the ship. The last renovation of the inside and outside area took place in the years 1981–1986, it was completed with the solemn consecration of the altar by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Kuhnle on October 19, 1986.

Bells

There are six bells in the tower with the following dates

  1. "Ave Maria", 1595, Ton Des', height 1.10 m, weight 1.6 t, Leonhart Ernst Lindau
  2. "O Maria caelum assumpta ora pro nobis", 1950, tone F ', height 0.9 m, weight 0.85 t, Benjamin Grüninger, Villingen
  3. "Franziskus Glocke", 2007, Ton as', height 1.03 m, weight 0.67 t
  4. "Pope Benedict XVI", 2007, tone bb ', height 0.95 m, weight 0.465 t
  5. "Four Evangelists", 13th century, tone c ", height 0.70 m, weight 0.26 t
  6. "Maria Hilf", 14th century, tone f ", height 0.52 m, weight 0.175 t

Several of the bells were dismantled and melted down during the war, and the same should happen to the two oldest bells in World War II . They were brought to Lünen ( Westphalia ), but came back unscathed in 1948.

organ

The organ dates from 1904 from the workshop of the Späth brothers in Mengen (Opus 113). It was subsequently slightly changed several times and restored in 1999 by the Lutz organ manufacturer in Feuchtwangen . The disposition was expanded by 3 registers on an additional drawer (transmission drawer) to 15 registers and returned to the original romantic disposition . The registers of the additional drawer can be linked to the 1st and 2nd manual .

I main work C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Double-covered
Flauto Dolce 4 ′
octave
Mixture
II subsidiary work C – f 3
Salicional 8th'
flute
Aeoline
viola 4 ′
Additional drawer C – f 3
Trumpet 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'

  • (1) The altar

  • (2) Holiday Christ and The Three Living and the Three Dead

  • (3) The south side of the choir room

  • (4) The north side of the choir room

  • (5) The ceiling painting in the choir room

  • (6) The Last Judgment on the south side

  • (7) The Capture of Christ on the North Side

  • (8) The pictures under the gallery

  • (9) King David on the gallery

  • (10) Saint Cecilie on the gallery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parish Church "Mariä Himmelfahrt" Eriskirch ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eriskirch.de
  2. ↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Regensburg 2012, p. 34. ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 .
  3. ↑ Information on the organ

literature

  • Hermann Eggart: The late Gothic wall paintings in the parish church of Eriskirch , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 61st year 1934, pp. 66–79 ( digitized version )
  • Paul Keppler: Württemberg's ecclesiastical art antiquities . Rottenburg 1887
  • Elmar L. Kuhn (ed.): The parish church Eriskirch. Late Gothic on Lake Constance . (= Art at the lake; 17). Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1986, ISBN 3-922137-37-7
  • Jürgen Michler, Bernhard Vesenmayer: Parish Church of the Assumption . Schnell & Steiner publishing house, ISBN 978-3-7954-2556-2
  • Description of the Oberamt Tettnang , Stuttgart 1915

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '39.4 "  N , 9 ° 31' 52.3"  E