St. Cyriakus (Niederdorf)
St. Cyriakus, Largus and Smaragdus is the Catholic parish church in Niederdorf near Wolfertschwenden in the Parish Community of Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . It was built in its current form in 1710.
Building description
The church is a plastered hall building with a hipped roof to four window axes and a flat ceiling . The choir on the east side of the church is connected to the nave by a pressed choir arch . It consists of two yokes with a needle cap barrel . The two sides , which are connected by a passage behind the altar, are divided into two floors by galleries. There is a groin vault on both floors . On the west side of the church there is a double gallery supported by marbled wooden columns . The church has arched windows with the exception of the ox eyes under the galleries. The arched entrance to the church is on the south side. Inside and outside the church is structured by pilasters . The basement of the four-sided church tower is built from Nagelfluh . There are arched sound windows on the upper floor of the church tower. The church tower has a tent roof . The sacristy with a pent roof is located south of the church tower.
history
The first church in Niederdorf was mentioned in a document in 1167 on the occasion of a relic donation from Abbot Isingrim of the Ottobeuren monastery . The church building fell into disrepair during the Thirty Years' War . The Ottobeuren monastery decided to tear down the dilapidated church and rebuild it. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on April 19, 1709 by Abbot Gordian Scherrich. The plans came from Christoph Vogt . Just one year later, on May 9th, 1710, the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Johann Kasimir Röls . The church tower was not completed until 1765. During the exterior renovation in 1983, the color scheme was brought into line with the original condition, and a late baroque sundial was uncovered.
Furnishing
The furnishings of the church were changed several times. In 1876 the original altars were replaced by neo-Romanesque ones. These altars were also replaced again during a renovation between 1987 and 1991 under Pastor Walter Böhmer. The altars that have been in the church since then come from a chapel in Vorderreute near Wertach, which had to be demolished.
The ceiling painting, which depicts the Assumption of Mary into heaven and her coronation, is by Johann Nepomuk Schöpf and was created in 1792. An oil painting of St. Cyriakus by Johann Friedrich Sichelbein is located above the main altar in the choir gallery .
The left side altar ( guardian angel altar ) shows a late baroque guardian angel figure . This stands with the introduction of the Guardian Angel Brotherhood on September 2, 1696 by Pope Innocent XII. in Niederdorf in connection. There is also a figure of the Infant Jesus of Prague in the left side altar . It was erected on March 31, 1773 by Father Rupert Milz. A modest pilgrimage to Niederdorf is based on this. The side altar on the right ( Marienaltar ) contains a Gothic figure of the Mother of God, created around 1500. This was originally in the chapel of St. Maria in Bossarts .
Guardian Angel Altar
Mary Altar
Late baroque sundial
See also
- List of churches with the patronage of St. Cyriacus
- List of churches and chapels in the Bad Grönenbach administrative community
Web links
literature
- Michael Petzet (Ed.): Monuments in Bavaria. Volume 7: Bernd-Peter Schaul: Swabia . Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52398-8 , pp. 420 .
- Information brochure "Sankt Cyriakus, Largus and Smaragdus in Niederdorf, 300 years, 1710–2010" .
- Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 159-160 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ a b Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 159
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 13.7 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 28.9 ″ E