Sameister

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Sameister is a district of Roßhaupten in the Swabian district of Ostallgäu .

location

Sameister is located on State Road 2059 , which connects Lechbruck with Federal Road 16 . The Roman road Via Claudia Augusta ran south of the state road . To the west of the village is the Sameister Weiher and about one kilometer south of the Schmutterweiher . Between the Schmutterweiher, which has a bathing area, and Sameister, the long-distance Prälatenroute (based on the Prälatenweg , partly identical) runs from Marktoberdorf to Kochel am See . Sameister had a breakpoint until 1962 on the Marktoberdorf – Lechbruck railway line .

history

Sameister was first mentioned in a document as early as 1287. An inn was later set up here. By 1596 at the latest there was a post office in Sameister for the Imperial Post Office operated by the Taxis family . The post office existed until the end of the 18th century, the inn is still there today. From 1722 the landlord was also the postmaster of the Imperial Post Office.

The Taferngut at Sameister near Roßhaupten was bought in 1639 by Balthasar Herkomer. He was the father of the baroque master builder Johann Jakob Herkomer, who was born there in 1652 .

buildings

Catholic Chapel of the Seven Sorrows

Catholic Chapel of the Seven Sorrows

In 1685 Johann Jakob Herkomer expanded the chapel, donated by his brother Isaak, into a unique baroque room.

The chapel of the Seven Painful Virgin Mary is already typical in its essential forms for the later work of Herkomer (cf. St. Mang in Füssen ): three-part semicircular windows, arched portal, based on Andrea Palladio's Villa Rotonda . The chapel is west. The dome on pendentives carries a lantern . In the triangular gable above the entrance the coat of arms of the Augsburg prince-bishop Johann Christoph von Freyberg .

Chapel interior

Stucco and frescoes were created by Herkomer in 1692. The choir depicts the glorification of the cross and the instruments of torture, the ascension of Christ and Pentecost; Coronation of Mary and Saints in the dome (namesake of the parents and Herkomer siblings). In the spandrels the four evangelists. In the arms of the cross grisaille with joyful and painful scenes from the life of Mary and Christ as well as typological references to the Old Testament and paintings of women at the grave and Descent from the Cross.

The altar, framed by marble columns, shows the Holy Family, Saints Sebastian and Anthony of Padua . Beside the door busts of the brothers Johann Jakob and Isaak with hammer, chisel, compass, guide line, palette and brushes.

To the right and left of the altar there is a passage to the vestibule of the Holy Sepulcher Chapel. There statue of Scourge Christ and Christ the Risen. The entrance to the Holy Sepulcher Chapel is designed as a slip pilgrimage, ie chest-high. In the Holy Sepulcher Chapel, Christ in the grave by Lorenz Luidl 1690.

Herkomer found his final resting place in the chapel.

Former beneficiary house

The former benefit house south of the chapel is attributed to Johann Georg Fischer . It was built in 1719. Fischer was a nephew of the builder Johann Jakob Herkomer and his long-time employee. He continued his work.

literature

  • Dehio, Georg / Gall, Ernst: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern III: Schwaben, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1990. ISBN 3422030085
  • Hauttmann, Max: History of church architecture in Bavaria, Swabia and Franconia 1550–1780, Weizinger, Munich 1923.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Dallmeier: Sources for the history of the European postal system 1501-1806, part II, documents regesten , Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1977, regest 113, p. 54, postal regulations from 1596.

Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 3.38 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 5.77 ″  E