Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception (Türkheim)
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The Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception is a church building erected from 1685 in Türkheim , in the Unterallgäu district , Bavaria . The church, together with the attached, previously built, Loreto Chapel is a listed building. The Church bears the patronage of the Immaculate Conception , celebrated on December 8th .
history
The church is part of a building complex consisting of a church, monastery and Loreto chapel. The foundation stone for the church was laid on November 21, 1685. The building of the Loreto Chapel is about two years older. With the construction of the chapel and the miraculous image there, a pilgrimage developed that led to the construction of a Capuchin monastery and the church. The church building was completed in 1687. More extensive repairs were carried out by Matthias Stiller as early as 1694. Auxiliary Bishop Eustachius Egolf von Westernach consecrated the church on August 5, 1697. The monastery was closed on October 15, 1802 in the course of secularization , but continued to be operated as an extinction monastery . On January 10, 1830, King Ludwig I ordered the rebuilding of the monastery by decree, after which the monastery, church and Loreto chapel were renovated. In 1866, the dilapidated condition of the church made major repairs necessary. The roof structure was renewed, the slatted ceiling was drawn in, the north wall that had meanwhile been pushed out was replaced, and the south and east walls were partially renewed. A new high altar with a painting by Ferdinand Wagner from Schwabmünchen was installed in 1848. New altars, a new pulpit, confessionals and a new communion bench by Ludwig Settele from Türkheim were created in 1867. In 1887 the church received a romanizing painting by the painter Frater Angelus Schnitzler, who also created new altarpieces. In 1914 the church was renovated again and in 1948 the interior and interior furnishings were modernized.
Building description
The nave consists of a hall with three window axes and a mirrored ceiling. The cove of the nave is lined with round bars. On its side walls, two large arched windows are inserted at a large distance. The window in the middle of the north wall is walled up, opposite of which is the pulpit . Also on the north wall under the western window, a door leads to the attached Loreto chapel. The gallery on the west wall is of modern origin and rests on two wooden columns. The middle part of the parapet protrudes over consoles. Below the gallery, a double-leaf arched door with baroque fittings leads into the interior of the church. There are two arched windows above the gallery. The long, rectangular choir adjoins the nave through a slightly receding choir arch with a round bar on the west side and a semicircle . The choir, which was shortened in the 19th century, has a needle cap barrel . There are round arched doors on both sides of the high altar. The side walls are divided in the lower section by broad groups of a door and a subsequent window. The windows have a neo-Gothic , profiled arched wall. In the upper area of the side walls there is a group of rounded arched windows with profiled walls. A monk's choir or library was installed behind the high altar.
The low, aisle-like porch was probably added to the west side of the church in the 19th century. This vestibule also forms the entrance to the monastery . The outside of the church door facing the vestibule is rounded and surrounded by Tuscan pilasters. Opposite, two small arched windows are inserted in the west wall. There are three memorial plaques between the two windows. There is a round arched dungeon niche in the south wall of the vestibule, to the right of it is the monastery gate. A wide door, the wing of which was created in Art Nouveau style , leads in the north wall to an open vestibule in the eastern side wing of the Ludwigstore .
The outside facade of the church is kept simple. A baroque, grooved cornice leads around the rectangular choir . Three rectangular windows are built into the east wall of the choir. A square ridge turret is placed on the roof ridge of the choir. This is clad with sheet metal and has arched openings and a carnation cornice, as well as a tent roof . A weather vane in the shape of a monk is placed on the tent roof . The grooved eaves cornice around the nave dates from the 19th century. In the west gable there is a circular window and a grooved verge cornice .
Furnishing
Altars
There are three modern altars in the church. The high altar contains a painted triptych , in the middle of which an Immaculata from 1948, created by the Turkheim resident Otto Epple, and on both sides St. Bonaventure and Francis can be seen. The two pictures on the side date from the 17th century and were restored in 1948. The large wooden crucifix on the wall above the altar is attributed to Lorenz Luidl from Landsberg and dates from around 1700. The two putti that flank the wooden crucifix date from the same time. There are tall rectangular paintings above the two side altars. According to Otto Epple, these come from the broken-down Capuchin Church in Munich. The northern painting is inscribed Christian (us) Wink pinxit 1778 and depicts Saint Felix of Cantalicio . Saint Lawrence of Brindisi , to whom the baby Jesus appears, can be seen on the painting on the southern side altar. It is labeled Christian Wink / pictor aulicus Monachii / 1784 .
Ceiling painting
Ludwig Angerer from Munich created the ceiling painting in the nave in 1948. This is labeled Ldg. Angerer 1948 and depicts the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Another ceiling painting is above the organ. In a small circle field you can see St. Francis of Assisi preaching to the birds.
pulpit
The neo-Romanesque pulpit has been simplified in a modern way. The polygonal pulpit contains neo-Gothic figures of Jesus Christ and the four evangelists .
Wooden figures
Several wooden figures are set up in the church. A crucifix from the second half of the 18th century and a neo-Gothic Mater Dolorosa from 1867, created by Otto Sieber from Türkheim, both on the north wall of the nave. Further neo-Gothic figures of Saints Louis of Toulouse , Elisabeth, as well as Clara and Veronica are on the long walls. The dungeon savior in the vestibule dates from the middle of the 18th century.
painting
A cycle of six scenes from the life of Jesus is attached to the gallery parapet. This was originally located in the parish church in Türkheim and was created in the first half of the 18th century. The paintings made on wood show from left to right the resurrection , the appearance of the risen Christ before Mary Magdalene, Christ with two disciples on the way to Emmaus , Christ as he appears to the apostle Thomas, Peter as he walks on the water and the ascension of Christ . Another painting in the vestibule shows the representation in the temple .
Other equipment
The organ as well as the stalls are neo-Romanesque. The six confessionals are set into the walls and, like the rest of the stalls, have been redesigned in a neo-Romanesque style. The names of the fathers and brothers who have died since 1806 are written on three memorial plaques made of Solnhofen limestone .
Web links
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 455, 456 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 1023, 1024 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-203-39
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 34.5 ″ N , 10 ° 38 ′ 25 ″ E