Assumption of Mary (Oberkammlach)

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Church of the Assumption in Oberkammlach

The Catholic parish church of the Assumption is located in Oberkammlach, a district of Kammlach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building.

history

Interior view of the Assumption

The Gothic core of the church dates from the 14th or 15th century. The church was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and rebuilt in 1660. During the reconstruction, the church was extended by an axis towards the west. Thomas Natter raised the church tower in 1682 . In 1696 the rebuilt church was consecrated. In the period around 1725/1730 the choir was rebuilt and extended to the east. The sacristy formerly located in the tower was rebuilt on the south side in the 17th or 18th century. The interior was devastated by the French in 1796 and restored again by 1797. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the church was renovated several times. B. 1862 the choir, interior renovation in 1900 and 1970 an exterior renovation.

Building description

The church is a hall building on the west side of which there is a double gallery . The upper gallery was built in 1851. The retracted, semi-circular closed choir adjoins the nave . In the choir there is a stab cap barrel over pilasters. The band work piece in the choir dates from around 1725/1730. The church tower is on the north side of the church. The square substructure contains a round arch frieze. The upper part of the church tower is octagonal and finished with an onion dome that was renewed in 1867 .

Furnishing

High altar with Christmas relief in the extract from 1520/1525

Altars

Both the high altar and the side altars were built by Martin Lang from Mindelheim in 1670/1680 and taken by Dominikus Schenk, also from Mindelheim. The figures on the high altar are probably made by Thomas Baumhauer. In the center of the high altar there is a wooden figure of Our Lady . On the left and right under canopies are the figures of St. Dorothea and St. Barbara. Martin Döttel created the cranked entablature with two angels in the segment gable.

The so-called Oberkammlach Christmas has been depicted since 1968 in the extension of the high altar in a round arch niche . The high relief made of linden wood in the Upper Swabian parallel fold style dates from 1520/1525 and was probably originally located in a shrine of a winged altar . It was created in the environment of Hans Thoman. The version of the high relief was renewed in 1968 based on the original traces. The high relief is approx. 70 cm wide and 60 cm high. Above in the apex of the extension of the high altar is a neo-baroque eye of God. This is surrounded with tendrils. In 1906 Simon Hörmann created the new baroque tabernacle .

The side altars date from the same period as the high altar. The left side altar shows a figure of St. Sebastian from the beginning of the 18th century . In the extract is the figure of St. Urban. The figure, created around 1500, was formerly in the Anna Chapel in Höllberg. The right side altar shows the figure of St. Dorothea around 1720. On the right in the extension of the side altar is the figure of St. Ulrich from the first half of the 17th century. The neo-Gothic figures from the years 1871/1872 on the side altars were made by Otto Sieber from Türkheim and painted by Anton Braun from Mindelheim. St. Leonhard and St. Wendelin are depicted on the left side altar. The right side altar shows St. Agnes and St. Afra .

pulpit

The pulpit was built from wood in 1679 by Wilhelm Laub from Mindelheim . The pulpit's polygonal basket is located above a large volute console. The basket shows half-figures of the evangelists in shellfish . On the back wall of the pulpit is a figure of Salvator mundi from 1680, created by Martin Beichel from Türkheim . The sound cover of the pulpit is made up of a figure of St. Michael crowned.

Mural

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Painting cycle from 1500
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Schematic representation of the images

In 1968, an extensive painting cycle from 1500 was uncovered on the north wall of the nave. The cycle shows depictions from the life of Christ in four superimposed rows. The pictures show the following scenes:

1. Raising Lazarus from the dead 13. Jesus before Herod
2. No longer recognizable 14. Carrying the Cross
3. Jesus' farewell to women 15. Cross nailing
4. Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem 16. Crucifixion
5. Washing of the feet 17. Resurrection
6. Mount of Olives 18. The women at the grave
7. Peter denies Jesus 19. Peter and John at the grave
8. Jesus before Caiaphas 20th walk to Emmaus
9. Jesus on the way from Caiaphas to Pilate 21. Emmausmahl
10. Jesus before Pilate 22. Group of Apostles
11. Flagellation 23rd Pentecost
12. Ecce Homo 24. Sending out the apostles all over the world

Ceiling painting

In the choir, the ceiling paintings by Joseph Kober (Göggingen) from 1862 show the Assumption of the Virgin and the Last Supper. The latter is with Ios. Kober pinx. 1862 inscribed. St. Anna is depicted on the northern cap, St. Joachim on the southern cap. The four church fathers are depicted on the side stitch caps. In particular, these are Gregory , Augustine , Hieronymus and Ambrosius . The neo-baroque depiction of the Emmaus meal is located in the throat below the oratorio .

The ceiling of the nave, which was attached in 1695/1696, shows the 15 secrets of the rosary in panels . The middle row of the nave ceiling shows, starting with the choir, the Annunciation, the birth of Christ, the coronation of Mary, the presentation of Jesus in the temple, and the Assumption of Mary. To the left of this, also starting from the choir, is shown the Visitation of the Virgin, Christ on the Mount of Olives, the carrying of the cross, the crowning of thorns and the sending of the Holy Spirit. On the right side, in the same order, is the finding of the 12-year-old Jesus in the temple, the flagellation, crucifixion, ascension and the resurrection.

Gallery painting

Gallery Scourging Jesus , 17th century

The seven paintings of the Passion of Christ on the lower gallery parapet date from the 17th century. These are rectangular oil paintings on canvas. In detail, starting from the left, the abuse of Jesus before Caiaphas, the flagellation of Jesus before Pilate, the abuse of Jesus before Herod, the fall of Jesus under the cross, the flagellation and nailing of the cross, and the erection of the cross are shown.

characters

On the southern wall of the nave there is a carved crucifix from around 1520. The crucifix probably comes from the same hand as the Christmas relief in the extract from the high altar. In an aedicule from around 1680 with two columns is the wooden figure of St. Joseph from the middle of the 18th century. There are 14 half-figures on the upper gallery parapet. These show the twelve apostles as well as Jesus and Mary and date from around 1700. A scene from the Mount of Olives with Jesus and three of his disciples is placed in the southern sign. It dates from the middle of the 18th century, the angel is neo-Gothic. In the cemetery there is a newly painted crucifix from the second half of the 18th century.

  • Aedicula in the choir with St. Joseph

  • Half-figures of the apostles on the gallery parapet

  • Crucifix around 1520

Funerary monuments

To the left of the entrance to the church there is a priest's tombstone from around 1520. The relief figure of a clergyman with a monstrance in a round-arched panel presumably represents Pastor Bartholomäus Merk. The inscription (an (n) o dni mccccc ... died ...) is only partially left legible. The grave monument was originally located in the Michaelis Chapel, which was demolished in 1811. A colored coat of arms stone for the clergyman Franz Ignaz Reisch, who died in 1798, is located in the church archway. The memorial plaque made of Solnhofen limestone contains a painted relief depicting a coat of arms in the upper area, between a chalice and a book with a skull above it. Tendrils are in the spandrels. Outside on the north side of the choir wall is from the 18th / 19th century. Century a heavily weathered grave monument for pastor J. Georg Schrader, also made of Solnhofen limestone. The grave monument for General AM de Chilleau, who died in the battle of Oberkammlach in 1796, is no longer available. This was built by his daughters and moved to the church in 1811.

  • Epitaph for Bartholomäus Merk, ca.1520

  • Memorial plaque for Franz Ignaz Reisch († 1798)

Memorial plaque in memory of the battle of the French near Oberkammlach on August 13, 1796

On the left choir arch there is a memorial plaque donated to A. Herb in 1836. The granite slab bears an inscription in French and German.

“En Mémoire / du combat du 13. août 1796 à Oberkammlach, entre les français fideles à leur Roi, / Sous les ordres du Prince de Condé, et les français égarés / républicains par la révolution, les si après déhommés, qui Sous ce prince , ont combattu / comme officiers dans cette mémorable journée, / ont fondé un service annuel pour le Salut des âmes de tous ceuse des deux parties, qui ont péri / dans cette lutte sanglante. / Le Baron de la Rochefoucould Lieutenant général, / chef de l'état major général du Prince de Condé, / le Baron de Colonge, depuis lieut.t gén.al au service de Bavière , le comte de Firmas-Periés, lieut.t gen.al, / le comte de la Potherie, maréchal de camp, le comte de Romain, colonel, gendre du général comte du Chilleau et de Terves tué dans le combat. / De Pressigny, le comte de Signier, et de la Tapie. / Madame de Flairai, veuve du général marquis du Goulet tué dans le combat. »

“To commemorate / the meeting of August 13th 1796 in Oberkammlach / between the French, loyal to their king, under the leadership of the Prince of Condé / and the misled French (republicans through the revolution) the aforementioned, at that time, have officers in the Prince's army , and everyone fought / on this memorable day, organized an annual service for the salvation of souls / all those of the two parties who remained in this bloody fight. "

Web links

Commons : Assumption of Mary  - 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. 826-827 .
  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 383-388 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-180-3
  3. ↑ a b c Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (ed.): Mindelheim district . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 387
  4. ↑ Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (ed.): Mindelheim district . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 385
  5. ↑ a b Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (ed.): Mindelheim district . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 386
  6. ↑ Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (ed.): Mindelheim district . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 388

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 7.5 ″  E