St. Anton (Kempten)
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St. Anton is a Catholic parish church of the Capuchins in the southern part of the city of Kempten . The patron saint of the church is Anthony of Padua . The remains of his brother Jörg (1696–1762) are in a wall niche . 160 years after his death, these were brought from Italy across the Alps to Kempten.
history
The first step towards building the church in the still little developed south of the city was the founding of the Kempten-Süd church building association on January 8, 1904. Even then it was clear that the complex should belong to the Capuchins and be a place for the common people. Construction began in 1908. Mainly construction companies from the region were commissioned. First the monastery was completed, which the friars moved into on September 1, 1912, and the first section, the presbytery and the yoke of the nave were consecrated.
On May 3, 1914, the completed church was consecrated by the Augsburg bishop Maximilian von Lingg . A Munich architect did most of the interior design after the First World War . The church belonged to the parish of St. Lorenz , but oversaw schools, church services and pastoral care in the south of the city. At the beginning of May 1938 the church became an independent parish and was no longer tied to St. Lorenz.
During the Second World War , large parts of the monastery and the church were destroyed by a direct bombing on August 3, 1944 . The reconstruction lasted until 1949. In 1951 the lead glazing was also restored. In June 1952, with the rebuilding of the nave, the entire complex was restored.
In the years 2000 to 2003 the monastery church was restored.
Architecture and equipment
The west-facing monastery church is surrounded by a wall with corner turrets. The monastery building has a small baroque corner tower.
The barrel vault with four bays in the largest room of the church is 27 meters long, 15 meters wide and 17 meters high.
The high altar is on the west side, as the road to the east gave better access. On the high altar is a 113 centimeter high statue of the Virgin Mary made of lime wood , a replica of the Creglinger Madonna from 1953.
At the main entrance there are four side chapels about 3.50 meters high.
The Capuchin Georg von Pfronten-Kreuzegg is buried in the church. After a permission from Pope Benedict XV. his bones were brought from Frascati to Kempten on June 18, 1922, to a crypt that served as a mount of olives. In October 1952 the body was subsequently buried in a wall niche before the age of the Mother of God. The niche is covered by a marble slab with the inscription "Here in God rests the venerable servant of God, Brother Georg von Pfronten."
organ
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In 1979 the company Orgelbau Schmid built the organ . It has 41 stops on three manuals and a pedal . On the prospect of the main plant, three polygonal pipe towers are arranged between two-story flat fields. Two large flat fields form the connection to the large lateral pedal towers. Below the main structure, behind the wooden blinds, there is the swell structure and the Rückpositiv in the parapet . The organ has the following disposition :
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Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
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The large bell of the church was destroyed in World War II, only the small one remained. On July 21, 1954, four new bells were purchased from a bell foundry at Kemptner Ostbahnhof . They were consecrated in the hood lock system and hung on September 29 in the new iron bell cage with the new tower clock. After the installation of the electrical system, they were rung for the first time on October 29, 1954. Since December 24th, the new tower clock has been showing the quarter hour with a double strike and the whole hour with a low tone.
Mount of Olives
Outside the church, in front of the main entrance, there is a covered mount of olives . This was laid out in 1926 in place of the Capuchin crypt in which Brother Georg was buried. The group shows a kneeling, suffering Christ before an angel who gives him the chalice of consolation.
literature
- Konrad Heidrich: St. Anton monastery parish church . Ed .: Hugo Schnell, Paul Mai. 3. Edition. tape 408 . Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1980.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , p. 569 f .
- Ralf Lienert: 100 years of St. Anton Monastery 1912–2012. 250th anniversary of the death of brother Georg von Pfronten Kreuzegg. AZ Druck- u. Data technology.
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Information from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation about the church
- ↑ a b c d e Konrad Heidrich: St. Anton monastery parish church . Ed .: Hugo Schnell, Paul Mai. 3. Edition. tape 408 . Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 978-3-7954-4267-5 .
- ^ Alexander Duke of Württemberg: Monuments in Bavaria . City of Kempten: ensembles - architectural monuments - archaeological site monuments. tape VII.85 , ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 .
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , p. 569 .
- ↑ Information from the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments about the monastery building
- ↑ Kirchenmusik Kempten: Organ , accessed on March 10, 2011.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 59.2 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 41 ″ E