St. Gallus (Augsburg)

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St. Gallus

The Church of St. Gallus , also called Galluskirchlein , is a Romanesque building in Augsburg and probably the oldest surviving Augsburg church. The church, which is also called a chapel because of its small size , is a monument that is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

Presumably on the remains of a Roman shrine to Mercury , a Christian sacred building was built around 900 on the so-called Gallusbergle . The gallus patronium also goes back to about this time. The apse foundation of the largest Roman basilica found to date to the right of the Rhine was found under today's Gallus Church . After the Roman city had been reduced in size, this previous building was outside the early medieval episcopal city.

Today's church was built in 1051 by Pope Leo IX. (newly) consecrated when this was in transit. A chaplaincy was founded in 1367. During the Reformation , St. Gallus briefly fell into the hands of the Reformed. After the religious peace, the St. Stephan monastery was able to buy back the little church. In 1578 St. Gallus underwent a thorough redesign under the then abbess Euphrosina Kreuth. Further repairs were carried out in 1662 under the Abbess Dorothea von Westernach and in 1759.

With the secularization , the Bavarian government closed St. Gallus in 1806, but later released it for church services. Since then, the church has belonged to the district of the cathedral parish, which also committed itself to its maintenance. During the Second World War , the small church was largely undamaged, but the attached residential buildings were destroyed. St. Gallus was used by the Russian Orthodox community until a few years ago. A comprehensive renovation took place in 2002.

Furnishing

The grave of the first abbess of St. Stephen's monastery , Elesinde, is at the foot of the altar. Its epitaph was set in 1589 by the abbess Euphrosina von Kreut.

The altar dates from 1760 and shows the wooden figure of St. Gallus. On the ceiling in the east yoke is a radiant Madonna, which was created around the same time.

literature

  • Helmut Rößle: Houses of God in the Bomb War - The Destruction of Augsburg Churches in the Second World War. Regio Akademica Verlag, Augsburg 2004, p. 63

Web links

Commons : St. Gallus (Augsburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Placidus Braun , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 47 f .
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Augsburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-7-61-000-302
  3. ↑ Information board in St. Stephen's Church: "The apse foundation of the largest Roman basilica to date found on the right of the Rhine rests under the nearby Gallus Church."
  4. ↑ Church leader St. Stephan, p. 2
  5. ↑ Placidus Braun , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 7 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '35.4 "  N , 10 ° 53' 59.3"  E