St. Leonhard and Sebastian (Mohrenhausen)
St. Leonhard and Sebastian is a Roman Catholic branch church and is located in Mohrenhausen in Upper Swabia , a district of Kettershausen in Bavaria . The church is a listed building. It belongs to the Roman Catholic deanery Memmingen in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The church was built in the late 15th or early 16th century. Between 1720 and 1730 the church was rebuilt and refurbished. The nave was extended to the west around 1860. At the same time new altars were purchased. The paintings on the nave ceiling date from 1901. A comprehensive restoration took place in 1945.
Building description
The church consists of a single nave nave . There is a needle cap barrel in the nave . The retracted, three-sided closed choir adjoins the nave . The church tower is on the south side of the choir. This is with a gable roof covered.
Interior
The altar sheet from 1740/1750 on the high altar shows St. Leonhard as a helper for the needy and the cattle. The wooden crucifix is from the first half of the 16th century. Michael Stiller created the rich banded stucco with acanthus tendrils and latticework in the years 1727–1730 . The coat of arms of the Fugger-Babenhausen can be found in a neo-baroque wooden cartouche above the choir arch. The frescoes from around 1730 show St. Leonhard and St. Sebastian in front of the Mother of God in the choir . The pictures in the nave were created in 1901 by Ludwig Glötzle .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 759 .
- Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 162-164 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-221-30
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 47.4 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 20.6 ″ E