Church of St. Dionys-Wurmsbach
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St. Dionys-Wurmsbach is a medieval church in Jona, in the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
history
The patronage of St. Dionys , the first bishop of Paris, suggests a Merovingian or Frankish foundation. A foundation as a secular foundation of a landlord is also conceivable.
St. Dionys-Wurmsbach is first mentioned in 1217 with Hainricus plebanus de Wurmispach . In 1253 Count Rudolf III. von Rapperswil surrendered his patronage rights to the Pfäfers monastery in order to free the town church of Rapperswil , which belonged to the Pfäfers parish of Busskirch .
Due to the upswing of Rapperswil and the establishment of the Mariazell-Wurmsbach monastery in 1259, the existence of the increasingly depopulated parish of Wurmsbach was called into question. The patronage of St. Dionys appears for the first time in 1369, when the church was added to the area of the parish church of Busskirch . Income and maintenance obligations went to Rapperswil.
St. Dionys, view from the northwest
South side
Entrance section
In the later Middle Ages, St. Dionys-Wurmsbach acquired more and more the character of a pilgrimage church . The church was damaged and robbed during the Old Zurich War . It was restored in 1450, and paintings were added in the choir and on the arch. Further paintings inside and on the southern and western outer walls were created in 1467, such as the Madonna in protective cloak and the Last Judgment under the glued roof on the western front.
In 1472 the tower with the Käsbissen roof was built and the formerly straight choir was expanded into a polygon. On June 21, 1493 the vicar general Daniel Zehner from Constance consecrated the renewed church and three altars.
In the iconoclasm of 1531 and 1656 during the siege of Rapperwil by the people of Zurich under General Werdmüller in the First Villmerger War , the altars and several pictures were destroyed, but the panel on the tach in the Chörli was left unsurprisingly . Two bells were also taken away.
In 1659 the church was restored; Master bricklayer Josef Willi has integrated the däver decking and the church roof and prevents the aldar from gliding, the aldar blades from sliding and what was needed . In 1660 a crucifixion group was created for the choir altar, and the church was repainted during these years. In 1668 Hans Ilg Kunz put the Rapperswil round shield in the ceiling. After the Rapperswil parish priest Johann Kaspar Rothenfluh had blessed the church with episcopal permission in 1659, the Bishop of Constance Hans Georg Sigismund Müller consecrated three new altars on September 6, 1676, two of which came from the Rapperswil city church.
In 1699 the church caretaker Jakob Stössel had a coat of arms of the city of Rapperswil inserted in the choir ceiling. In 1828 two side altars were moved to the Rapperswil Chapel of Our Lady, and in 1874 the neighboring Mariazell-Wurmsbach monastery donated a new choir altar.
In 1908/09 Ferdinand Rüegg discovered late Gothic wall paintings, which were restored under the supervision of Josef Zemp. In 1953 an interior and exterior restoration took place under the direction of architect Felix Schmid from Rapperswil. The wooden porch with a pulpit north of the entrance was removed, the wall paintings on the western front were restored by Franz Xaver Sautter and the altarpiece in the choir was removed.
Choir
inner space
inner space
Looking east
construction
Exterior
The east-facing church stands on a gentle slope east of the Rapperswil - Uznach road . The building consists of a rectangular nave , a retracted polygonal choir and is covered with a gable roof with eaves-sided canopies. Of the three tracery windows in the choir, only the one on the long wall is old, the others were without tracery until 1952. In the northern entrance to the choir is the massive tower with a cheese-bite roof positioned across the church ridge. The top of the three floors serves as a bell house .
South wall
North face
Protective mantle Madonna
South wall
Interior
The nave is separated from the choir, two steps higher, by a choir arch. A Gothic flat ceiling with longitudinal strips has been drawn in over the nave . In the middle there is a coat of arms of the city of Rapperswil, dated 1668. The flat, unadorned choir ceiling is more recent, possibly still baroque. Also here in the middle is a coat of arms of the rose town of Rapperswil from 1699 with the inscription " H. Jacob Stössel Der Zeit Kirchen Pfläger "
The former side portal from before 1467 has been exposed on the south side. On the north wall of the choir a late Gothic is wall tabernacle of sandstone embedded.
literature
- The art monuments of the canton of St. Gallen , Volume IV. The lake district; Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1966
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '38.4 " N , 8 ° 51' 42" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and seven thousand seven hundred sixty-seven / 231688