St. Johann (Sigmaringen)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Johann (also: St. Johannes Evangelist ) is a baroque hall church in Sigmaringen in the district of the same name in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the parish of St. Johann Sigmaringen in the dean's office Sigmaringen-Meßkirch of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
History and architecture
The church is located on the northern edge of the old town at the foot of the castle , to which it is connected by a covered corridor. It stands on the site of the Romanesque Johanneskapelle mentioned for the first time in 1359 below the castle. The late Gothic successor building, built between 1440–1444, received the parish rights that had previously belonged to Laiz in 1464 . The church tower, completed in 1583, has been preserved from the renovation under Count Karl II von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1580–1605). An inscription on the north side by Hans Schaller with the alliance coat of arms Hohenzollern-Öttingen reminds of this. The church that is preserved today was built in the years 1757–1760 by Johann Martin Ilg and Hans Jakob Stoffler. In 1768 the bell storey was renewed, raised and crowned with an onion dome. In the years 1892/1908, 1936 and 1959 restorations and a neo-baroque addition to the furnishings as well as an enlargement of the organ gallery, which was provided with banding ornamentation by the Tyrolean plasterer Corra in 1908 . The interior is divided into a broad rectangular nave, a narrow transept and a recessed polygonal choir. In the nave and in the choir, a flat barrel vault with lancet caps is drawn in over the articulating wall pilasters, and a four-pass domed vault protruding into the roof structure is built in over the crossing .
The building is decorated with delicate Rocailles stucco by Johann Jakob Schwarzmann in the choir and on the transept vault , while those on the choir arch and in the nave were partly removed in the second half of the 19th century. The decoration in the window reveals was supplemented by Biehl in 1892, the six stucco shields over the pilasters of the nave were reproduced in 1959 by J. Schnitzer based on Schwarzmann's designs. The ceiling paintings and altarpieces were painted by Meinrad von Au around 1760 . In the choir a scene of the Lord's Supper is depicted, the spandex pictures show the raising of the daughter of Jairus, the transfiguration of Christ and Christ on the Mount of Olives. In the transept dome the vision of John on Patmos is shown; the paintings in the transept chapels are related to the saints of the altars. On the left is the martyrdom of St. Fidelis , on the right that of St. John Nepomuk , in the nave fresco the triumphant church.
Furnishing
Five stucco marble altars by Johann Michael Feichtmayr are decorated with expansive rocaille and imaginative plant shapes that frame the paintings by Meinrad von Au. The high altar panel from 1767 shows the crucifixion. Above the side arches of the portal, the princes of the apostles are depicted as white-framed figures by Johann Georg Weckenmann from around 1760. The sculptor from Haigerloch also made the putti of the choir arch altars, which are very similar in structure; the painting of the southern altar depicts the Fourteen Holy Helpers , the painting of the northern one depicts the Holy Tribe , composed around the child's portrait of John the Baptist. Particularly impressive are the altars of the transverse arms, which are formed from a structure of volutes with pilaster-like side parts and lambrequin- decorated entablature, which each surrounds a window; this forms the background for the two holy martyrs Fidelis and Johannes Nepomuk. The expressive figures with sharp-edged robes are recognizable under the influence of Ignaz Günther .
Next to the Fidelis altar is the two-winged, cast brass door of the Fidelis Shrine with figures of saints in bas-relief on an etched background with a pomegranate pattern , which was ascribed to Hermann Vischer or Peter Vischer the Elder in the years 1460/1480; in the shrine is the bust of the saint, which was created in 1764 by Johann Baptist Hops . A crucifix with a plaintive Mary comes from around 1630/1640, probably by Zacharias Binder. The prospectuses of the choir organs with grisaille painting by Au were created by Hops in 1773. The west organ is a work by Yves Koenig from 1995 with 41 stops on three manuals and pedal in a neo-baroque case from 1908.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg II: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 305-306.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 14 " N , 9 ° 12 ′ 57.3" E