St. Johann Baptist (Mooshausen)
St. Johann Baptist is the branch church built in 1771 in Mooshausen , a suburb of Aitrach in the Ravensburg district . The parish is part of the Aitrachtal pastoral care unit in the Allgäu-Oberschwaben deanery of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese .
history
The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist . In 1275 a church in Moosbruckhusen is mentioned for the first time in the archives of the Diocese of Constance . In 1353 the place became its own parish. The patron saint was the then lord of the castle of Marstetten, the Waldburg-Zeil noble house . He gave the parish the right to tithe . It consisted of 15 malter wheat and oats, 2 pounds of heller and 30 shillings. At that time Mooshausen counted 24 households, which means that 150 people can be assumed. In 1508 the church fell to the former imperial abbey of the Premonstratensian in Rot an der Rot .
The Thirty Years' War , which lasted from 1618 to 1648, brought hardship, misery, fear and horror . In 1633 plundering Swedish troops and their auxiliaries of the Reformation moved in the wake of Wallenstein through the area of the middle Iller . The whole of Mooshausen was burned down with the church and fields. Then the plague broke out. Half of the population died, the parish was dissolved and united with Aitrach. Services were held in provisionally prepared churches, as the Aitrach church was also completely destroyed.
inner space
The baroque high altar dates from 1740 by Mathias Ott from Füssen in Ostallgäu. During a church robbery in 1973, the figure of St. Sebastian, a Pietà and a painful Mother of God were stolen. A copy of Our Lady of Good Counsel hangs above the tabernacle . The original comes from a church near Skutari in Albania. It was venerated there for 200 years, but was forgotten when the Greek churches separated and then miraculously came to Italy by sea in the 17th century and there to a monastery of the Augustinian hermits in the Italian city of Genazano. Next to the organ is a so-called armacross with tools of torture.
Pastor Johann Michael König was buried in a crypt under the church. A base plate with the inscription MK shows the location of the crypt. Since Pastor Weiger's death in 1966, Mooshausen has only been an independent parish, but no longer a parish.
Today's church
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In 1698 the church was rebuilt. The old church is said to have been a Gothic complex. The rectory with stables and tithe barn was built in 1734 and completed in 1749. Pastor Johann Michael König moved into the rectory. The community became a place of pilgrimage. The pilgrims came because of a Pietà from 1480 that had survived the looting during the Reformation. Soon the church was too small. Pastor König died in 1760. On May 28, 1771, the foundation stone for today's church was laid under Pastor Franziskus Huber from Constance. Construction was completed in 1784. In 1867 the church was enlarged again under Pastor Merkle. In 1901 there were further alterations and renovations, with the purchase of a new tower clock. The floor was covered with Solnhofer panels donated by a single citizen of Mooshausen.
Romano Guardini in Mooshausen
From 1943 to 1945, the Catholic religious philosopher and theologian Romano Guardini, persecuted by the National Socialists , stayed in Mooshausen, where his friend Josef Weiger was pastor and had formed a circle of friends since 1917. In 1935, in his work The Savior, he openly opposed the mythization of the person of Jesus propagated by the National Socialist German Christians and, on the other hand , justified the close connection between Christianity and the Jewish religion based on the existential historicity of Jesus. In 1939 the regime forced him to retire from his chair for the philosophy of religion and Christian worldview at Berlin's Humboldt University . In Mooshausen he wrote the theological-political book Der Heilsbringer , in which, as at the beginning of the Third Reich , he branded Hitler's attempt to stylize himself as a savior as totalitarian.
Well-known celebrants
- Marian Eleganti OSB, Titular Bishop of Lamdia, 2010
literature
- Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz (Ed.), Elisabeth Prégardier , Annette Wolf: Encounters in Mooshausen. Romano Guardini , Maria Knoepfler, Maria Elisabeth Stapp, Josef Weiger . 2nd edition 1990. ISBN 3-87437-292-8
- Sepp Knittel: St Johann Baptist Mooshausen, church tour a. a. on the day of the open monument
- Romano Guardini: Reports about my life. Autobiographical records. Edited from the estate by Franz Henrich. 1985, Patmos, ISBN 978-3-491-77625-8
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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 10 ° 5 ′ 7.4 ″ E