Maria Immaculata (Zusmarshausen)

Parish church Maria Immaculata in Zusmarshausen

The Catholic parish church Maria Immaculata is located in the market town of Zusmarshausen in the Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria . As an architectural monument , it is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

Plaque

A first wooden church was built around 600 and replaced by a stone church in Romanesque style around 1000. In 1295 the church law of Zusmarshausen fell from the margraviate of Burgau to the Augsburg patrician family of the Langenmantel . An early measurement foundation of the parish has been documented since 1362 . The lower floors of the church tower date from the late Gothic period .

In 1625 a Corporis-Christi brotherhood was founded, which existed in Zusmarshausen until 1975. The tower octagon was built by Georg Rainer around 1700/01. In 1712, under pastor Christoph Steriz, possibly also by Rainer, the new building of the choir and the redesign of the interior in the baroque style took place . In 1743 the Zusmarshausen master carpenters Dionysus Ayernschmalz and Andreas Weber made a new tower dome.

In the 19th century the church was restored several times and a painted coffered ceiling was installed. In addition, new altars and a pulpit were purchased. In 1939 the late Gothic nave was demolished and, until 1944, an enlarged nave was built based on the previous building based on designs by Anton Wenzel and Michael Kurz . In 1979/80 the choir and high altar were redesigned. In 2003 a baptistery was set up under the gallery .

Maria Immaculata, together with the parishes of St. Martin in Gabelbach , St. Leonhard in Gabelbachergreut , St. Vitus in Steinekirch , St. Stephan in Wollbach and St. Michael in Wörleschwang, form the parish community of Zusmarshausen, of which it is the main parish.

description

inner space

Choir vault

The elongated hall has a pilaster-structured choir with a semicircular end. On the southern side is the church tower with an octagon and onion dome. The nave has seven axes with arched windows.

Furnishing

The stucco work in the choir was probably created by Georg Rainer in 1712. The ceiling paintings in the choir show St. Michael and St. Anthony of Padua. The cross group on the high altar with the figures of St. Maria, Maria Magdalena and Johannes Evangelist from 1630 are attributed to the workshop of the sculptor Christoph Rodt from Neuburg an der Kammel .

On the left side of the choir arch is the sandstone figure Maria vom Siege from 1720/25. The nave walls are adorned with 12 wooden apostles from around 1720. The side altars in neo-Romanesque style were made around 1853. The pulpit from 1853 has been removed. Karl Manninger had the ceiling frescoes in the nave depicting the fifteen secrets of the rosary made in 1952.

Tombstones

Epitaph for Hans Memminger († 1605)
Epitaph for Franz Karl von Rost († 1731)
Epitaph for Mathilde Edle von Stubenrauch († 1841)

Surroundings

The church was surrounded by a cemetery that was abandoned in the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : Maria Immaculata - collection of images, videos and audio files

Further information about the church

Individual evidence

↑ Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria. Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2019]).
^ Winfried Nerdinger, Katharina Blohm: Building in National Socialism: Bavaria, 1933-1945 . Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1993, ISBN 978-3-7814-0360-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2019]).

48.399459 10.596045Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '58.1 " N , 10 ° 35' 45.8" E

[1] Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria. Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2019]).

[2] Winfried Nerdinger, Katharina Blohm: Building in National Socialism: Bavaria, 1933-1945 . Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1993, ISBN 978-3-7814-0360-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2019]).