St. Franziskus and Georg (Altensteig)
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Franziskus and Georg is located in Altensteig in Upper Swabia , a district of Dirlewang in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . Colloquially the chapel is also called Käppele . The chapel is a listed building.
location
The geostete chapel stands on the place to the east limiting slope at about the middle of the aligned in north-south direction town. To the east the forest Unteres Bauernholz begins , to the west there are several farms. There are agricultural meadows in the north and a farm in the south.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1256 and even then had its own chapel. The northern part of the place, on which the chapel also stood, belonged to the parish of St. Jakobus the Elder in Mindelau , the southern part belonged to the parish of the Annunciation in Dorschhausen . The services were held alternately by the two pastors of the parishes. The current chapel was built around 1700. The altar dates from around 1680. In 1831 the sacristy was added. The chapel was enlarged to the east in 1936. From 1941 to 1942 the interior was restored. In 1964 the chapel was renovated inside and out.
Building description
The flat-roofed choir is three steps higher than the nave and has a 5/8 end. This was added to the choir with the pillars connected by a wooden beam in 1936. Before that, the chapel only had a three-sided ending, which started at today's choir arch. On the east side of the ceiling beam is the year 1964 as an indication of a restoration. In the choir there are circular windows on both sides, and two arched windows in the middle section of the nave walls. At the east end of the south wall of the nave there is an arched doorway to access the sacristy . The access to the chapel is located near the west end, with a rectangular door in an arched niche. In the west of the nave there is a wooden gallery with a marbled parapet. This is structured by fluted, dorising pilasters and rectangular fields. There are small circular windows in the long walls of the nave under the gallery. The nave is covered with a wooden field ceiling from the time of construction with profiled strips and embedded paintings. The choir room has a new, slightly higher lying white plaster ceiling.
The exterior has a slightly protruding eaves cornice and profiled sloping gable. The roof turret of the chapel is on the west gable. On the three free sides of its square base, which is closed off by a cornice cornice, there are rectangular panels with dials. On the octagon above there are corner pilaster strips, a fielded base, arched openings, a fielded frieze with transverse oval openings and a carnies cornice. Only on the diagonal sides are arched panels instead of arched openings. The roof turret is crowned by an onion hood .
The sacristy is at the east end of the south side of the nave. The rectangular building with the narrow side to the south has a base, Tuscan pilasters next to the corners. Only the east corners do not have any. Furthermore, a profiled eaves cornice is attached to the sacristy. It is provided with a gable roof. The windows are arched and in the west between the church wall and pilaster is the arched entrance. Above it is a transverse rectangular panel with the following inscriptions MAZPIM / IAGPID / MDCCXXXI. O. / C + R. The first two words mean the pastors in Mindelau and Dorschhausen. In the south gable is a square inscribed stone with the inscription NEI / GEPAVT / ANNO / MDCCCXXXI / R + R .
Furnishing
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In the front rows of the stalls, the cheeks from the time it was built around 1700 have been preserved. They are made of oak and are decorated with carved decorations. They have a raised edge, pendants and an acanthus leaf hanging from a volute at the top. The rest of the seating has been renewed. In the north wall, in a barred niche, there is an alabaster mother of God from around 1460. The wooden figures in the chapel are all framed. The statues of St. Bartholomew and Ulrich on the pillars of the choir date from around 1500. The Pietá dates from the first half of the 18th century, the crucifix from the middle of the 16th century. The standing Anna Selbdritt was made around 1500, the resurrection savior in the middle of the 18th century. Furthermore, there are 14 small half-figures of the apostles with Jesus and Mary in the nave and the gallery parapet. These are attached to oval discs and date from the beginning of the 18th century.
There are several paintings in the chapel. An upright rectangular from the time the chapel was built around 1700 shows the adoration of the three kings. Also around 1700 two small paintings were painted with the depiction of the poor souls in the fire. They are set in four-columned, wooden aedicules with a blown gable. The picture of Our Lady of Altötting probably dates from the 18th century. The 14 stations of the cross date from the 18th century.
Ceiling painting
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The paintings on the nave ceiling date from the time the church was built around 1700. They were framed in octagonal and round frames on the ceiling. The eastern one is in an octagon field and shows Saint Francis in glory before Jesus and Mary. The scene in which Francis receives an indulgence from God and Mary can be seen in the middle circle. In this picture a putti carries a scroll with the text Francis- / cus Erlangt / Vollkomme / Ablaß von / God and Maria. In the western octagon field, Francis can be seen as the helper of the poor souls. Small round fields with panel paintings are set into the ceiling along the long edges. They date from the second half of the 19th century. They show the four evangelists. Over the corner there are panel pictures with angels who carry the instruments of torture.
In the choir room there is a Jesus monogram fresco from 1942 by Franz Hartmann from nearby Buchloe .
altar
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The altar of the chapel is in the choir and dates from around 1680 and was restored in 1942. The wood is painted red-brown, the columns are marbled blue. The stipes are set in the form of a sarcophagus. The tabernacle on it is flanked by columns and ends with a curly niche. It's neo-baroque. The altar structure is equipped with a shell niche with a wooden figure of St. Francis from the end of the 15th century. There are inclined axes with narrow shell niches between the flanking, pre-staggered pairs of columns. Inside are wooden figures that were created towards the end of the 15th century. On the left is St. George, on the right St. Florian. Outside there are wooden figures from the middle of the 18th century on consoles and under canopy consoles. They show Saint Anthony of Padua on the left, and Saint Apollonia on the right. The entablature of the altar is cranked and equipped with rolled segment gables. In the altar extension , which is delimited by volute templates and ends with a segmented gable, there is a small wooden statue of the Savior in Rest from the 18th century.
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 29-30 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 21 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-127-16 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 33 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 18.2 ″ E