St. Cornelius and Cyprianus (Bad Buchau)

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St. Cornelius and Cyprianus is the collegiate church of the Buchau women 's monastery, which was partially rebuilt by Pierre Michel d'Ixnard between 1767 and 1776, and is today's Catholic parish church in Bad Buchau in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia . Their name refers to the martyrs Cornelius of Rome (d. 253) and his friend Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258), who have been venerated together since the 4th century.

Building

Nave

Princess Abbess Maria Karolina von Königsegg-Rothenfels hired the Strasbourg architect Pierre Michel d'Ixnard to redesign the collegiate church . In almost ten years of work, he built a classicist three-aisled hall building on the Romanesque foundations, including the Romanesque, semicircular and closed choir . The ceiling frescoes in the choir and central nave are by Andreas Brugger . The rest of the painting was done by Johann Georg Mesmer.

Jakob Ruez was responsible for the classical decoration of the stucco in white and gold . The medallions of saints and stucco sculptures are by Johann Jakob Willibald Ruez. The altars and the rest of the inventory, choir stalls , pulpit , confessionals and grave monuments are assigned to the workshop of Johann Joseph Christian .

The unchanged Romanesque south tower from the 14th century received a new bell in 1952.

The church treasure consists of two high baroque ray monstrances from the 17th and 18th centuries, valuable liturgical vestments, a silver crucifix and a censer .

organ

The Rieger organ

An organ from the Rieger organ building company with 39 registers has been on the west gallery since 1967 .

crypt

Detail of the fresco by Andreas Brugger: Maria Maximiliana Esther von Stadion zu Tannhausen and Warthausen with coat of arms and a view of the monastery complex

The crypt of the Adelindis is located under the choir of the church . The crypt, a quadrangular three-aisled room with a semicircular east apse illuminated by sloping windows, simple cross vaults, arcade arches on the north wall and wall templates from which shield and girdle arches started, is perhaps the oldest preserved church room in Upper Swabia; it can be dated around 1000. The crypt was only discovered during construction in 1929, a collective grave was found under the altar in 1930, and documents were found in 1939 that indicated that this was the grave of Adelindis. When the coffin was opened, her bones were found with those of her brothers Peringer, Reginolph and Kerhart, who were killed in 902 while trying to kidnap their sister from the monastery. But it can also be the bones of her sons who were slain by the Hungarians. In 1941 the remains were reburied in the repaired crypt.

Cenotaph for the fallen

In front of the south tower is a memorial with a late baroque crucifixion group . The mosaic canopy is from 1958 and was designed by Otto Herbert Hajek . The crucifixion group used to stand in front of the Plankental chapel in the Plankental.

literature

  • Otto Beck: Art and history in the Biberach district. A travel guide to cultural sites and sights in the middle of Upper Swabia . 2nd Edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, ISBN 3-7995-3707-4 , p. 210f.
  • Otto Beck: Churches and chapels in Bad Buchau. A guide through his places of worship . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2003, ISBN 3-89870-136-0
    • 2nd edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2010
  • Country descriptions of the State Archives Sigmaringen: The county Biberach Volume I . Ed .: Landesarchivdirektion Baden-Württemberg in connection with the district of Biberach. Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-6185-4 , p. 484 .
  • Vera Schauber, Hanns Michael Schindler: Saints and Patrons in the course of the year. Pattloch, Munich, 2001
  • Hiltgard L. Keller: Reclam's Lexicon of Saints and Biblical Figures. Reclam, Ditzingen 1984
  • Otto Wimmer, Hartmann Melzer: Lexicon of Names and Saints, arr. u. supplemented by Josef Gelmi. Tyrolia, Innsbruck, 1988
  • Theil, Bernhard: The (free secular) women's monastery Buchau am Federsee I arr. by Bernhard Theil. On behalf of the Max Planck Institute for History. Berlin ; New York: de Gruyter, 1994 (The Diocese of Konstanz; 4) (Germania sacra; NF, 32: The Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mainz) ISBN 3-11-014214-7

Web links

Commons : St. Cornelius and Cyprianus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theil, Bernhard: Das (free secular) women's monastery Buchau am Federsee I edit. by Bernhard Theil. On behalf of the Max Planck Institute for History. de Gruyter, Berlin 1994 (The Diocese of Konstanz; 4) (Germania sacra; NF, 32: The Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mainz) ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , pp. 18f.
  2. ↑ Joachim Schäfer: Adelindis von Buchau , Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon, heiligenlexikon.de, accessed on February 5, 2017.

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 3 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 41.8"  E