St. James (seaside)

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St. James from the south

The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Jakobus the Elder is in the Seeshaupter district of Seeseiten in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau . It is located at the northern end of the Seeseiten hamlet , approx. 400 meters south of Seeseiten Castle . The listed church belongs to the parish community Seeshaupt to the deanery Benediktbeuern in the diocese of Augsburg .

history

As early as 1090, a St. James chapel was mentioned in the Benediktbeurer Codex on the lake side. On April 14, 1479 Church came together with the parish church of St. Michael in Seeshaupt by barter from Polling Abbey for Bernried Abbey . Today's church was built in 1746 under Michael Bauhofer and consecrated in 1755 by Augsburg Auxiliary Bishop Franz Xaver Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden .

After secularization in 1802 , the church was supposed to be demolished, but this did not happen. In the years 1965 to 1971 the church was renovated outside and partially inside.

Description and equipment

inside view

The east- facing , plastered hall building in baroque style with a retracted apse has a roof turret in the west .

The Renaissance high altar also contains late Gothic parts. In it is centrally located on the altarpiece of the church patron the Elder James depicted as a pilgrim. In the extract there is a figure of the holy martyr Vitus , in the predella a depiction of the beheading of John the Baptist .

There is only a side altar on the left, the early Baroque pulpit is on the right. The side altar shows the scourged Savior.

The ceiling painting in the choir depicting the beheading of St. James shows is surrounded by four emblemata that fit thematically: the rock in a storm, the cut vine, the pomegranate tree and the hammered heart. The painting in the main house shows James on a horse coming from heaven, how he helps the Christian Spaniards in the fight against the Muslim Moors . Here, too, the blessing and grace that James imparted are taken up in emblematic subsidiary images. These show a water source, a fountain, the sunlight and a lighthouse.

James' miracles are shown on the gallery : raising the dead, healing the sick and, in the center, the conversion of the Moorish king, who burns unchristian books and sunk them in a ship in the sea.

The rest of the furnishings are late baroque.

  • High altar

  • Side altar

  • Choir paintings

  • Main house painting

  • Gallery

Web links

Commons : Chapel of St. James the Elder (Lakeside)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments for Seeshaupt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. P. 3, accessed June 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ The churches in the village. (PDF; 430 kB) In: seeshaupt.de. Seeshaupt municipal archive, May 2018, accessed on June 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Walburga Scherbaum: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The Diocese of Augsburg 3. The Augustinian Canons of Bernried . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025182-1 , p. 232 ( digitized version [accessed June 25, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Paul Heggenstaller: The churches of the parish Seeshaupt . Ed .: Catholic parish office Seeshaupt. 2nd Edition. Hannes Oefele Verlag, Ottobeuren 1981, p. 5 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Paul Heggenstaller: The churches of the parish Seeshaupt . Ed .: Catholic parish office Seeshaupt. 2nd Edition. Hannes Oefele Verlag, Ottobeuren 1981, p. 13 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 20.4 ″  E