St. Johann Baptist (Strass)

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Church of St. Johann Baptist in Straß

St. Johann Baptist is the rococo-style Catholic parish church in the Straß district of Nersingen .

history

The rococo church was built from 1746 to 1748 according to the plans of the architect Johann Baptist Wiedemann from Ehingen . The interior design is the work of two well-known artists, the plasterer Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer from Augsburg and the fresco painter Joseph Wannenmacher from Tomerdingen . The high altar is from 1733 and comes from the abbey church of Fultenbach near Dillingen, which was demolished in 1811 .

Outside the church there is a Mount of Olives chapel with ossuary and the church surrounded some old grave stones.

organ

The Siemann - organ from 1901

In 1789 the church received its first organ . This was a gift from Pastor Anton Miller to the community and came from the workshop of the organ builder Julius Ernst in Lauingen .

In 1901 this instrument was replaced by a new organ by Willibald Siemann from Munich. It has a neo-baroque prospect and has 14 sounding stops on 2 manuals and pedal .

Bells

The peal of the parish church of St. Johann Baptist today consists of 4 bells that sound in the Parsifal motif. At 350 kg, the heaviest bronze bell is also the oldest. It was cast by Hans Braun in Ulm in 1609 . The second oldest bell was cast 100 years later by Theodosius Ernst in 1709, also in Ulm. It is the smallest bell and weighs only 125 kg. At first it was in the pilgrimage church "Maria Königin Bild" in Limbach and after its demolition in 1789 it was auctioned by the priest Anton Miller from Strasbourg and given to the community. The other two bells weighing 320 and 220 kg were cast in 1948 in the Gebhard bell foundry in Kempten .

literature

  • Anton Aubele: Straß: On the history of a village in the Ulmer Winkel. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1982, p. 183ff. ISBN 3-87437-200-6 .

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist (Straß)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

  • Catholic parish church St. Johann Baptist, southern nave wall

  • Church interior with organ loft

  • Mount of Olives Chapel with ossuary

  • Mount of Olives Chapel with ossuary, cross and gravestone

  • Crucifix next to the church

  • Late medieval stone cross in the churchyard

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ^ Georg Brenninger : Organs in Swabia . Bruckmann, Munich 1986, p. 56.
  3. ↑ a b c Church leader St. Johann Baptist Nersingen-Straß . Schwäbische Kunstdenkmale, booklet 55. Förderverein Kath. Pfarrgemeinde Straß (Ed.), Verlag Anton H. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1999, p. 28.

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 48.8 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 10.1 ″  E