St. Andreas (Gremheim)
The Catholic Kuratiekirche St. Andreas in Gremheim , a district of the Schwenningen community in the district of Dillingen an der Donau in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , was built at the end of the 18th century on the site of a previous church from the 13th century.
history
As early as 1267, a church belonging to the parish Blindheim was mentioned in the eastern part of Gremheim . In the period from 1542 to 1616, Gremheim was Protestant . During the Thirty Years War the church suffered fire damage, which is why the roof structure, the gallery and the tower roof had to be renewed.
In 1783/84 the episcopal court chamber in Dillingen had a new church with a sacristy built, for which Joseph Feistle and Johann Georg Bozenhardt produced the designs. Only the old choir and the tower remained. In 1817 the benefice , which had existed since 1408, was elevated to a curate . The church of St. George in the western part of the village, which had also had a benefit since 1408, was demolished in 1812/20. During the renovation in 1908, the nave of St. Andreas received a new ceiling painting by the Swiss painter Jakob Huwyler . In 1998 the church was renovated outside and in 2001 inside.
architecture
Exterior construction
The building is made of plastered brickwork . The six-story, square tower with a steep gable roof rises on the west facade . The substructure is broken through by narrow slits of light. On the top floor, sound arcades open up in the form of twin windows , under which dials are attached to the north and south. The entrance is on the south side of the nave, to which the sacristy with the pulpit adjoins.
inner space
St. Andreas is a hall church that is divided into four axes and covered with a flat ceiling over a throat. The choir, which is irregularly closed on three sides, is separated from the nave by three steps. The western end is formed by a double gallery with straight parapets , which lies on wooden columns with fantasy capitals .
Gallery and ceiling pictures
The ceiling painting of the nave depicts the birth of Christ and was created in 1908 by Jakob Huwyler.
The grisaille on the gallery parapets date from the first quarter of the 19th century. The pictures below depict scenes from the Old Testament such as Moses and the Burning Bush , the sale of Joseph , the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael , Tobias , Lot and his wife, who solidified into a pillar of salt , and Ruth , the great-grandmother of King David . The pictures in the upper gallery show angels making music.
Gallery pictures
Gallery pictures
Gallery pictures
organ
The organ is the work of the Munich organ builder Franz Borgias Maerz . It was built in 1902 and is a listed building .
Furnishing
- The niche of the left side altar contains a Pietà from 1750. It is considered the most precious sculpture in the church.
- The wooden sculptures of the Resurrection Christ, the crucifixion group with the figures of Mary and the apostle John also date from the second half of the 18th century .
- The pulpit was made in 1785. The body and the sound cover are covered with angel teasers and decorated with rosettes and garlands . The wooden figure on the cover plate is interpreted as Christ or John the Baptist .
- The high altar from 1885 has a sculpture of the apostle Andrew , the patron saint of the church, who is represented with his attribute , the St. Andrew's cross. At his side are St. Anne with Maria as a child and St. Joachim , who holds two doves in his hand as an offering. The extract depicts St. George and is reminiscent of the St. George's Church, which was demolished in the 19th century.
- In the choir there are the sculptures of St. Wendelin and St. Leonhard . The figures in the nave represent St. Francis Xavier , the Apostle Andrew, St. Aloisius and St. Antonius .
Apostle John
Saint Leonhard
Saint Wendelin
literature
- Hans Fischer, Dieter Zitzler: Church leaders St. Andreas Gremheim . Gremheim 2004.
- Werner Meyer (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Dillingen on the Danube . In: The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. District of Dillingen on the Danube . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 289-293.
- Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Edited by Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 377–379.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 9.2 ″ N , 10 ° 38 ′ 51.9 ″ E