Ottilien Church (Bettringen)

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Ottilienkirche

The Ottilienkirche (also Church of St. Ottilia , wooden church , more rarely also St. Ottilie ) is a pilgrimage and subsidiary church of the Bettringer Cyriakus Church in Unterbettringen , a district of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the Ostalb district ( Baden-Württemberg ). The Ottilienkirche serves as a burial church because of the nearby Ottilienfriedhof . The cemetery is still in the hands of the church and is to be handed over to the city administration (status 11/2011).

history

The branch church of St. Ottilie in Unterbettringen was first mentioned as a wooden church in 1358 and is therefore the oldest church in Bettringen. The legend tells that this church was to be built at the crossroads to Waldstetten and that the wood was already laid out there. During the night, angels would have carried the wood to the hill east of the village, which the villagers saw as a sign of God and built the church at this point, where a spring was also to be found. Because of this legend, the church in Bettringen is often still known as a wooden church . 53 years later, the name Ottilienkirche was mentioned for the first time in 1411 . Bishop Johannes von Augsburg consecrated the altar in 1478 in honor of Saints Ottilia , Barbara and Katharina . Over 300 years later, the nave was rebuilt in the baroque style.

Presumably there was a prehistoric, probably Celtic, sanctuary above today's sacristan's house.

The church has long been a place of pilgrimage, v. a. for eye sufferers. The sixth bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese , Paul Wilhelm von Keppler from Gmünd , is said to have been cured of severe eye ailments after visiting the Ottilienkirche.

In 2013 the listed cemetery wall had to be renovated due to the risk of collapse.

Furnishing

The Ottilie altar consists of the figure of the saint (around 1500) and the winged shrine by Alois Bühler from 1950, which depicts scenes from the life of the saint. The altar base is from 1994 and suggests a baptismal robe (subject:  cover ). The high altar consists of five figures, a late Gothic figure of the helper Katharina from around 1500, a late Gothic figure of the holy bishop Ulrich von Augsburg from around 1500, in the middle of the Mother of God with child , a figure of the helper Barbara from the 18th century, and a figure of St. Patricius .

Since the original figure of Saint Leonhard was stolen, it was replaced in 1994 by a woodcut by Joachim Maria Hoppe .

The organ of the Ottilienkirche is single manual.

Web links

Commons : Ottilienkirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State releases funding

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 5 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 43"  E