St. Leonhard (Baumgarten)
St. Leonhard is a Catholic branch church in Baumgarten , a district of the municipality of Aislingen in the Swabian district of Dillingen an der Donau , which was built in the 18th century. The church on the southern edge of the village is a protected architectural monument .
history
The St. The church consecrated to Leonhard emerged from an existing chapel , which was expanded in 1764 to become today's church.
architecture
The church has a choir with a three-sided end and a flat ceiling. The wall is structured by pilasters . The nave of the same width is also flat-roofed and, like the choir, has arched windows. There is a gallery in the west . In front of the choir, segment-arched semicircular niches open on both sides. The west portal between rectangular windows has an indented semicircle. An octagonal roof turret sits on a square base on the west gable . Like the tower on the south side, the roof turret is crowned by an onion helmet. The outer walls of the church are structured by unadorned pilaster strips. The tower with four square basement floors and an upper floor with beveled edges has profiled eaves cornices . To the east of the tower is a two-storey sacristy .
literature
- The art monuments of the district of Dillingen an der Donau , edited by Werner Meyer , in the series: The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. District of Dillingen on the Danube . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 133-135.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 22.6 ″ E