St. Afra (laughter)
St. Afra is the Catholic parish church in Lachen in the Upper Swabian district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria . The listed church was built in 1747 and bears the patronage of St. Afra .
history
The original St. Afra Church was not in Lachen, but in the nearby Theinselberg . When Philipp von Pappenheim introduced the Reformed Confession in 1558/59 in his possessions, the Catholics lost their church. In 1713 Abbot Rupert II of Ottobeuren beganin Theinselberg the new building of a catholic church in honor of the holy Afra. This church building was destroyed by a lightning strike in 1746. The Reformed population violently prevented a reconstruction in Theinselberg. In 1747 the construction of a new parish church St. Afra began, but no longer in Theinselberg, but in Lachen. The parish church of St. Afra was consecrated in 1773 .
In 1905 the church tower and the sacristy were built. In 1953 the parish church was extensively renovated. In this context, it also received new altars, which were consecrated on October 29, 1953 by the Bishop of Augsburg Joseph Freundorfer . Another renovation took place from April 2017 to March 2018.
High altar
Ceiling painting from 1920
Gallery with organ
See also
- List of churches with the patronage of St. Afra
- List of churches and chapels in the Memmingerberg administrative community
literature
- Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 138 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-162-2 ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 25.2 ″ E