Parish Church of St. Leodegar (Schupfart)
The parish church of St. Leodegar is the Roman Catholic parish church of Schupfart in the canton of Aargau . The classicist church consecrated to Saint Leodegar von Autun was built between 1795 and 1797.
history
The Schupfart parish has possibly existed since the second half of the 10th century and is listed in the trademark register of the diocese of Basel from 1441. The church patronage lay with the Margraves of Baden-Hachberg and in 1576 came into the possession of the Säckingen women's monastery through an exchange . The income from the benefice was so low that the pastors had to look after other parishes in the area. In 1633/34 the church was sacked by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War . In 1711 the parish asked the women's monastery to be allowed to expand the building, but this was only made possible in 1717 after a court case.
The small church building was in a precarious condition at the end of the 18th century. In 1792 the architect Johann Nepomuk Amann recommended a new building on behalf of the Austrian government. Abbess Marianna Franziska von Hornstein gave the Säckingen master builder Johann Zennier the corresponding order three years later. The foundation stone was laid in March 1796. Originally, the old church tower should have been retained and raised, but during the work that lasted until 1797 it turned out that the masonry was unsuitable for an additional storey. Because of the turmoil of the war, the tower could only be erected between 1802 and 1805. In 1803 the canton of Aargau took over the collature , and the church consecration followed only seven years later.
In 1862 the main altar was replaced , in 1883 the clock tower. An extensive interior renovation took place in 1933, an exterior renovation in 1946/47. Another interior renovation was carried out in 1993/94, with restoration of the furnishings.
Building
A saddle roof combines the nave and the adjoining choir of the east- facing church building and is hipped over the choir polygon . On the west side the striking church tower rises up, which has a sheet metal-clad pyramid roof with a cross-crowned sphere. Four tall, slender arched windows are arranged on both long sides. A two-storey sacristy with a hipped roof is built on the south side of the choir, and a sign above the three round-arched entrances to the west . The double-leaf door leaf of the main entrance is adorned with Louis- Seize decorations.
Inside, the tower ground floor, spanned by a groin vault , serves as an anteroom. In the flat-roofed nave, a gypsum cave leads from the cornice adorned with gilded strips to the rectangular ceiling mirror, a staggered choir arch separates the altar house, which is raised by three steps. Historicist glass paintings from the years 1907 to 1912 show devotional scenes in the choir and various saints in the nave .
Of the altar ensemble that Johann Friedrich Vollmar created between 1797 and 1800, only the canteens and the four figures of the high altar have survived. The marbled and partly gilded retables are works by Josef Maria Bürli. The altar panel of the main altar (painted by Heinrich Kaiser) shows a crucifixion scene in the Nazarene style. The pulpit , made by Johann Bruholz in 1826, is made of gray and pale pink stucco marble , its bas-reliefs presumably come from Vollmar. The organ installed on the gallery in 1896 is of unknown origin and was probably built around 1770/80.
literature
- Edith Hunziker, Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IX, Rheinfelden District, 2011, ISBN 978-3-906131-94-8 , pp. 406-411 .