St. Gordianus and Epimachus (Aitrach)
St. Gordianus and Epimachus is the parish church of the community of Aitrach in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia . The community belongs to the Aitrachtal pastoral care unit in the Allgäu-Oberschwaben dean's office .
location
The east-facing church is located in the middle of the village, which has over two thousand inhabitants. Aitrach was neither in the Middle Ages nor in modern times a prominent official seat of a monastery or a secular rule. The church is dedicated to the Roman martyrs and patron saints Gordianus and Epimachus . This patronage indicates that the church was founded under the influence of the Kempten monastery . The early Kemptic rights could have been endowed by Hildegard , the wife of Charlemagne , or by their son, Ludwig the Pious .
The main street of the village separates the rectory, now the community center, from the church complex. The church with the cemetery and the funeral hall is enclosed by a shoulder-high wall.
Furnishing
The current church was built between 1718 and 1724 and is a baroque hall church . It has a recessed, semicircular choir when viewed from the outside and polygonal inside . At the northern choir is a copper-clad tower with a dome roof, bells and four sound openings from 1670. The painting of the church in 1904 was done by Franz Beyer and August Braun . The figures of the saints were made in the workshop of the sculptor Johannes Ruez. The group of crosses on the high altar is ascribed to Ruez himself. The high altar is from 1794 and comes from Matthäus Ott.
The church has a high altar, a popular altar , a pulpit , gallery , pews, confessionals and an organ . The right side altar is an Antonius altar with a statue of St. Anthony of Padua with baby Jesus. The left side altar is a Marian altar.
Fallen memorials
In the west of the church by the enclosure wall there is a memorial for fallen and missing soldiers. In the center of the complex is a naturalistically depicted soldier with his head bowed. His arms are supported on either side of a wall. He is holding a carbine in his right hand . The base of the statue bears the inscription: "We sacrificed ourselves to duty, God save our people". To the left and right of the statue there is a memorial plaque with the engraved names of the victims of the First World War on the wall. In front of the wall there is a larger plaque with the fallen and a smaller one with the missing persons from the Second World War.
At the cemetery there is another soldier memorial, which is designed as a grave and commemorates those who died in the First World War.
literature
- Dagmar Zimdars among others: Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , p. 5 ( Handbook of German Art Monuments ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Bühler: Nobility, monasteries and lords of the castle in the old Duchy of Swabia. Collected essays . Konrad Verlag, Weissenhorn 1996, ISBN 3-87437-390-8 , p. 163.
- ↑ Fallen memorials: Aitrach, Ravensburg district, Baden-Württemberg ; accessed on Jan 26 2010
Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '26.2 " N , 10 ° 5' 16.6" E