St. Gallus (Tettnang)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Gallus is the dominant church building in the Baden-Württemberg town of Tettnang in the Lake Constance district .
Previous buildings
Presumably, before Tettnang was first mentioned in a document in 882, today's church hill was built accordingly, and a wooden church can be assumed to be the first church in the village; The patron saint was Saint Gallus , one of the missionaries at Lake Constance . The wooden church was replaced by a Romanesque stone church with a walled cemetery .
In 1297 Tettnang received city rights, the population grew, and so around 1400 the construction of a new church in the Gothic style began: in 1410 the choir and in 1450 the tower were completed. At the later laying of the foundation stone in 1467, pastor Melchior Molitor and the early mass chaplain Ulrich Gäßler also count Ulrich the Elder with his wife Ursula von Hachberg are said to have been present. In 1702 the pointed church tower was destroyed by a lightning strike and in 1705 it was replaced by a baroque onion dome with a tower cock on a Lorraine cross . The church and interior were gradually redesigned in Baroque style in the course of the 18th century, and the new design was completed by the frescoes by the painter Andreas Brugger, who was born in Kressbronn .
After the cemetery had been moved in 1844, the dilapidated and too small church was demolished in 1858, only the church tower remained.
architecture
On October 2nd, 1860, after almost two years of construction, the new St. Gallus Church was inaugurated. The much larger building, built by Ravensburg architect Gottlieb Pfeilsticker in neo-Romanesque style according to plans by government assistant Linck , remained in this appearance for almost a hundred years. Bricked outside as a baroque stone building, the interior was divided into a three-aisled hall church by eight pairs of wooden pillars . The pillars corresponding to the pilaster strips of the outer walls support the wooden ceiling with its interesting profile.
A bomb hit in March 1944 destroyed the rear part of the St. Gallus Church and triggered the question of fundamental repairs: Since the dark painting in 1893 and the obstruction of view by the rows of columns, the church had been perceived as oppressive and too gloomy. The Board of Trustees decided to redesign the church and entrusted the planning and construction work to the Rottenburg architect Hans Lütkemeier (1898–1960) and the Tettnang architects Franz and Joseph Seitz.
The church interior, which was relatively unadorned at the time, was redesigned in terms of architecture and color from 1990–1991; the color program and all the design elements were designed by the Breisach artist Helmut Lutz (* 1941).
Furnishing
The room is characterized by the large cross in the middle of the nave designed by Helmut Lutz, which includes fifteen rosary medallions as well as older works of art (crucifix, angel, statue of the Madonna and Child).
In the vestibule there is a memorial for the last Montforter, Count Anton IV of Montfort , from the year 1795. The memorial designed by Johann Georg Wieland is adorned with the overturned coat of arms of the Monforts.
The organ was built in 1957 by the organ building company Albert Reiser (Biberach). In 1993 the late romantic instrument was revised and its sound was adapted to neo-baroque ideas. In 2004 a thorough revision of the organ was decided and completed in 2011. Today the slider chest instrument has 49 stops on three manual works and a pedal.
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literature
- Catholic parish Tettnang (publisher): Sankt Gallus Tettnang - route through the parish church of St. Gallus. Tracing an artist's creed . Senn, Tettnang 1996.
- Alex Frick : Parish St. Gallus Tettnang, Lake Constance district . (= Small Art Guide; 1335). Schnell + Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1982
- Werner von Matthey, Adolf Schahl: The art monuments of the Tettnang district . DVA, Stuttgart 1937, p. 14 f.
Individual evidence
Web links
- The St. Gallus Church on the website of the Tettnang Catholic parish
- The St. Gallus Church on the website of the Heimatkunde support group
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 24.5 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 19.2" E