St. Katharina (Wolfegg)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Katharina is a baroque wall pillar church in Wolfegg in the Upper Swabian district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the pastoral care unit Oberes Achtal of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .
History and architecture
The former collegiate church was built in the years 1733–1742 by Johann Georg Fischer , the neo-baroque bell tower was added in 1906. The church consists of a rectangular nave with a semicircular apse and four three-story window axes; the choir side is designed as a front side. The exterior is characterized by the pilaster structure alternating with arched windows. The choir wall is equipped with an attic floor, where the figures of the canonized Willibald and Wunibald are placed. A choir tower is built above the apse , in whose niches figures of the canonized Walburga and Katharina from 1736 by Anton Stapf are placed. In the base there are figures of Count Ferdinand Ludwig, the builder of the church, and Jakob, the builder of Wolfegg Castle , the former by Stapf, the latter by Esaias Gruber from the beginning of the 17th century.
The interior is a spacious wall - pillar church with a strongly separated choir, lateral oratorios and a semicircular apse. The narrow, aisle-like aisles are provided with galleries, and the master and organ galleries are arranged in the west. The nave is closed by hollow vaults, the side aisles by transverse barrels; the choir is vaulted by a dome with a lantern . The interior is designed with graceful stucco decorations by Johann Schütz . The ceiling paintings were made by Franz Anton Erler based on a design by Franz Joseph Spiegler . In the ship the duel between Count Johannes von Sonnenberg and Cavaliere Antonio Maria d'Aragonia di San Severino in 1487 is shown; the middle of the picture appears in a cloud halo Katharina, which decides the fight in favor of Johannes von Sonnenberg. In the choir, scenes from the life of Catherine and Walburga , Willibald and Wunibald, who are venerated as saints, are depicted.
Furnishing
The main pieces of equipment are altars from 1736 by Petrus Hohl. The high altar sheet with the Coronation of the Virgin and the leaf of the right side of the altar with the mythical Marie mother Anna were of Caspar de Crayer painted in 1660, the Journal of the left side altar from 1737 by Franz Georg Hermann , the Mother of God with Dominic and Catherine of Siena . The Choir stalls from 1755 show bandwork and incised rocaille ornaments and in the dorsal inlays of the apostles by Michael Bertele.
On the sides of the high altar are tombs of Count Maximilian Willibald von Waldburg-Wolfegg († 1667) and Ferdinand Ludwig von Waldburg-Wolfegg († 1735) made of stucco marble. A tomb commemorates Count Johannes von Sonnenberg († 1510) and his wife. The epitaph for Count Jakob von Waldburg-Wolfegg († 1589) stands on the descent to the crypt .
organ
The organ is a work by Jakob Höhr from 1736 that has been rebuilt several times with 27 registers on three manuals and pedal . It was expanded in 1981 and 1984 by Orgelbau Kuhn and restored in 2007/2008 by Hermann Weber. The disposition is:
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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. 850–851.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 20.3 " N , 9 ° 47 ′ 30" E