St. John the Baptist (Ermengerst)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. John the Baptist is located in Ermengerst , a district of Wiggensbach in the Oberallgäu district ( Bavaria ). The church, consecrated to the patronage of John the Baptist , is a listed building.
history
Prince Abbot Rupert von Bodman von Kempten renewed the church from the 15th century in the years 1680/1690. The church was also fitted out at this time. An inscription on the choir arch mentions the year 1939 for a renovation that took place.
Building description
The nave of the church consists of two window axes made of round arched windows. The ceiling forms a barrel vault over a cornice. The arched entrance on the west side with a sign dates from 1947, the former south entrance, which was also arched, was walled up to form a niche. There are two simple buttresses on the north wall of the nave. A wooden gallery is built into the west wall and rests on two wooden supports. The oval pictures in the parapet show Jesus and Mary surrounded by the twelve apostles . A round choir arch , on which the coat of arms of Prince Rupert von Bodmann is located, connects to the three-sided closed choir . There is a base strip around the outside of the choir. There are two arched windows in the choir, in the south and east walls, as well as a bricked-up pointed arch window on the south wall. The late Gothic church tower with a gable roof in the northern corner of the choir consists of rolling and quarry stone masonry. In the basement of the tower there is an ogival door to the choir and a groin vault . Coupled round arched sound arcades with partly still preserved octagonal sandstone intermediate columns with block capitals are attached to the bell floor.
Furnishing
Both the altars with the wooden figures and the lay chairs date from the years 1680/1690, in which the church was renovated . The latter contains carved tendrils and parapets structured in three fields with pilasters. The high altar contains a figure of Our Lady in the middle , immediately to the left of it is a wooden figure of John the Baptist, on the right that of St. Roch . The group of figures is flanked by two columns, on whose entablature several putti and the representation of the Trinity can be seen in the altarpiece . On the side of the aedicula there are passages to the sacristy. Each of the two passages forms the base for a life-size figure, on the left is St. Pancras , on the right St. Sebastian .
The pulpit dates from the end of the 17th century and has no sound cover. The corners of the pulpit contain wooden statuettes of the four evangelists, the pulpit is decorated with acanthus tendrils on three sides. The neo-baroque choir and confessionals date from around 1920.
The three paintings in the church show the beheading of John (marked 1683 ), Esther before Ahasuerus from the late 18th century and a scene from the Mount of Olives, which was heavily painted over. The ceiling painting in the nave with the scene of Christ's baptism in the Jordan is signed Huwyler 1903 .
Beheading of John, signed 1683
Saint Sebastian
Ceiling painting with the baptism of Christ, signed Huwyler 1903
literature
- Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 85.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-80-146-9
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 10.1 ″ E