St. Johann Baptist (Ungerhausen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist is located in Ungerhausen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building.
history
The previous building on the site of today's church was demolished in 1733 with the exception of the late medieval church tower . The construction of the church began in 1734 and was consecrated in 1738. The church was built according to plans by Simpert Kraemer . The church was restored between 1955 and 1957.
Building description
The church is a plastered building with four window axes in the nave. The nave has a mirror vault over pilasters on templates with surrounding beams. The square choir with two window axes is drawn in and just finished, the corners in the east are rounded. He wears a hollow vault . A two-storey, semicircular closed extension east of the choir with the sacristy in the basement and a flat-roofed adjoining room on the upper floor has high, arched windows. The church tower with a rectangular substructure in the northern corner of the choir consists of five floors divided by keel arch friezes. The top floor has coupled sound arcades . The octagonal superstructure is provided with corner pilaster strips. The church tower has a tin-studded hood. On the southern outside there are epitaphs from the years 1782, 1826 and 1849 on Solnhofen slabs and a memorial plaque for the fallen in 1805/15.
Furnishing
The high altar consists of a marbled wooden structure with gilded decoration and was created around 1738. In the high altar there is a rotating niche tabernacle flanked by volutes with the Lamb of God above it. The crucifix that replaced the altarpiece dates from the first half of the 16th century. In the spaces between the staggered free columns on the side of the high altar there are life-size wooden figures of the two Johannes attributed to Anton Sturm. The excerpt with an allegory of the church probably comes from Franz Anton Erler.
The side altars, like the high altar, are marbled wooden structures. In front of the left altar is a wooden figure of a seated Virgin from the 16th century. The left altar panel shows Saint Anthony of Padua , the right is modern. Both side altars are surrounded by staggered free columns. On the consoles there are wooden figures of St. Leonhard and St. Sebastian on the left . Saint Roch and Saint Magnus are shown on the right. Both excerpts are designed in the manner of Franz Anton Erler. The left excerpt shows St. George and the right a knightly saint.
The baptismal font made of marbled wood, like the high altar, dates from around 1738. The lid bears the group of figures depicting the baptism of Christ . The pulpit from the 18th century comes from the profaned parish church in Ottobeuren and is also a marbled wooden structure with gilded decor. The three-sided basket is divided by volutes and contains symbols of the four evangelists . The sound cover is crowned by an angel blowing trombone.
Several wooden figures are mounted in the church. The figure of the standing Mother of God comes from the second half of the 15th century, the Johanness bowl with reliquary insert from the early 17th century . Two small female saints and the figure of St. Joseph date from the 18th century . Around 1760/70 the figures of Christ , Mary and the twelve apostles were created, which also come from the secular parish church in Ottobeuren.
The ceiling paintings were created by Franz Anton Erler in 1734. In the choir, Christ is represented among the scribes as pseudo-architecture. God the Father appears in the dome opening . The Annunciation can be seen in two fields in the choir arch . The ceiling of the nave contains the sermon of John the Baptist , his birth, visitation, beheading and the baptism of Christ in several fields .
The lay stalls made of oak, the confessional made of walnut on the south wall of the choir and the communion bench made of marbled wood with wrought iron bars and gilded foliage date from the time the church was built around 1738 . Three single-seat choir stalls made of marbled wood date from the 18th century.
See also
literature
- Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 227-228 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-205-4 ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 227
- ↑ a b c d e f Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 228
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 19.2 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 58.9 ″ E