St. Blasius and Quirinus (Dietmannsried)

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Church of St. Blasius and Quirinus in Dietmannsried

St. Blasius and Quirinus in Dietmannsried in the Oberallgäu district in Bavaria is a Catholic parish church . It belongs to the Deanery of Kempten in the Diocese of Augsburg and is a listed building.

history

Exposed coat of arms above the tower clock

The parish Dietmannsried belonged to the Ottobeuren monastery until 1455 , after which it changed to the Kempten prince monastery . The core of the church is likely to be late Gothic. In the years 1588 and 1679 to 1681 the church was rebuilt. The church building was extended to the west in 1755. A year later, in 1756, Franz Georg Hermann and Franz Josef Hermann finished the painting and furnishing. In 1810 the church burned down completely and most of the furnishings were destroyed. During the restoration phase, the church tower roof was also redesigned, with the onion dome being replaced by the octagonal tent roof . The painting from 1859 to 1862 was painted over during a renovation in 1956/1957 and exposed again during a renewed renovation in 1985/1986.

Building description

The single-nave nave is closed on the west side and has a pressed barrel vault . This rests on broad pierced by lunettes Voute . There is a double gallery on the west side . The retracted three-sided closed choir with three window axes and barrel vaults adjoins the nave through a round choir arch . There is a strongly drawn-in yoke in front of the choir in the crossing . A round arch, which has been open since 1956, provides access to the former sacristy on the north side, opposite on the south side is the church tower and the modern sacristy. Both the main entrance on the west side and the two side entrances are arched. The entrance leads through a sign on the west and north sides . The church tower is late Gothic and consists of tufa blocks. Originally the sacristy was on the ground floor of the church tower in a groin-vaulted room. Slits of light extend to the upper floors of the church tower. This has three coupled round-arched sound openings on the bell floor, which are interrupted by intermediate pillars made of sandstone. On the south side, the sandstone column was replaced by a concrete column. The octagon of the church tower was built in the 17th century. The steeple of the parish church of St. Blasius is 54 meters high. The ascent leads up 109 steps.

Furnishing

Interior

inside view

The painting that dominates the church depicts scenes from the life of Christ and is a rural example of Nazarene art in the footsteps of Peter von Cornelius . The frescoes in the choir were created in 1859 by his pupil Fidelis Schabet , all the rest from 1861 to 1863 by Andreas Merkle .

The high altar from the end of the 18th century consists of a free plastic crucifixion group by Johann Richard Eberhard . The crucifixion group with white and gold framed figures of Maria , Johannes and Maria Magdalena was previously in the parish church in Sonthofen. In each of the two side altars there is a wooden figure from the first half of the 19th century: on the north side one of St. John of Nepomuk , on the south side a mother of God .

The Way of the Cross from 1751 is a foundation of the Franciscans of the Franciscan monastery Lenzfried near Kempten .

  • High altar, 18th century

  • Station of the cross

  • Ceiling fresco in the nave

Organ and bells

Interior view towards the exit with two galleries

The church received in 1986 as part of an extensive renovation, a new organ workshop organ building Schmid from Kaufbeuren . It has 24 registers and is equipped with 1533 pipes .

After previous bells fell victim to being melted down for war purposes, four new bells were cast in 1951:

  • the St. Blasius bell, weighing 3000 kg,
  • the St. Ulrichs- and St. Quirinus bell, weighing 1650 kg,
  • the Assumption bell, weighing 1200 kg,
  • the St. Michaelis bell, weighing 730 kg.

literature

  • Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 82.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 256 .

Web links

Commons : St. Blasius and Quirinus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Administrative region of Swabia, administrative district of Oberallgäu, Markt Dietmannsried, architectural monuments: Entry D-7-80-119-3 (PDF: 332 KB), accessed on April 29, 2020

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 29 ″  N , 10 ° 17 ′ 23 ″  E