St. Georg (Tettnang)
The St. Georg Chapel in Tettnang , a town in the Lake Constance district in Baden-Württemberg , is a protected cultural monument . St. Georg stands in the area of the first settlement of the mountain spur, on the edge of the ravine , which cuts deeply to the north , on the main square of the city in the immediate vicinity of the castle, which was built over with the New Castle in the 18th century .
history
The chapel is first mentioned in a deed of foundation from 1436. St. George may have served as a castle and court chapel, and perhaps it was the first town church. Like the castle and town, St. George was destroyed in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War . In 1682 the chapel was rebuilt under Count Johann X. von Montfort .
It is a hall church with cross vaults and a retracted, flat-closing choir with ambulatory.
Furnishing
The high altar was originally part of the baroque furnishings that the Salem artist Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer created for the chapel of the New Palace in 1758 . After the castle chapel was profaned in 1828, the high altar was moved together with two side altars and two pulpits in the George's Chapel.
Almost 50 years later, the side altars were replaced and the pulpits removed as part of a redesign in the neo-Gothic style. The gallery , the pews and the floor made of colorfully ornamented cement tiles also date from this time .
Around 1965 a redesign took place with the replacement of the neo-Gothic side altars with simple console panels.
literature
- Martina Goerlich: The way to the pilgrims' hostel. The revival of the St. Georg Chapel in Tettnang. In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 47, No. 4/2018, pp. 235–240 ( online edition ).
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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 '13.4 " N , 9 ° 35' 10.1" E