St. Magnus (Bad Schussenried)

The parish church of St. Magnus is in the center of Bad Schussenried in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The church was formerly part of the Schussenried monastery and was built in 1185. In the 15th century it was rebuilt and gothicized. The interior was baroque in the 18th century.

View to the high altar

Choir stalls

The church has a high baroque, richly decorated choir stalls made of walnut wood, which were created by Georg Anton Machein (1685–1739) and his workshop in 1715–1717 and, like the Buxheim choir stalls, belong to the figuratively decorated group of the "Swabian acanthus choir stalls". In the dorsal fields there are reliefs made of linden wood, the thematic focus of which is on the life of Mary and the Passion of Christ. They are flanked by statuettes of twenty-four male and four female founders of the order. In 1930 the choir stalls were dismantled as part of a renovation and placed closer to the high altar in 1932. The north side was swapped with the south side, so that the chronological order of the relief scenes no longer begins in the west, but in the east. Unfortunately, the woodworm left clearly visible traces in the limewood.

High altar

Order founders, saints and relief representations	Choir room	Order founders, saints and relief representations
Fall into sin with promise of the Savior		Virgin Mary's birth
Augustine 4th / 5th century Author of the Rule of Augustine		Norbert von Xanten 11./12. century Founder of the Premonstratensian
Passage to the Temple of Mary		Annunciation
Paul of Thebes 3rd / 4th centuries century First hermit, model for the Paulines		Anthony the Great 3rd / 4th century Father of western monasticism
Marriage of Mary to Joseph		Visitation of the Virgin Mary
Benedict of Nursia 5./6. century Founder of the Benedictines		Bernhard von Clairvaux 11./12. century Important abbot of the Cistercians
Birth of Christ		Adoration of the three kings
Francis of Assisi 12./13. century Founder of the Order of Friars Minor		Dominic of Caleruega 12./13. century Founder of the Dominicans
Presentation of Jesus in the temple		Escape to Egypt
Basil the Great 4th century Father of oriental monasticism		Jerome 4./5. century Hermit, Doctor of the Church
The twelve year old Jesus in the temple		Holy Family in Nazareth
Bruno of Cologne 11./12. century Founder of the Carthusians		William of Malavalle 12th century Hermit, model for the Wilhelmites
Temptation of christ		Wedding at Cana
Ignatius of Loyola 15./16. century Founder of the Jesuits		Philipp Neri 16th century Founder of the Oratorians
Transfiguration of Christ		Jesus said goodbye to Mary
Petrus de Murrone 13th century Hermit, founder of the Celestine hermits		Philip Benitius 13th century Prior General of the Servites
Christ on the Mount of Olives		Flagellation of Jesus
Petrus Nolascus 12./13. century Co-founder of the Mercedarians		Johannes von Matha 12./13. century Co-founder of the Trinitarians
Jesus crowned with thorns		Christ before Pilate
Franz von Paola 15./16. century Founder of the Paulaner (Minimen)		John of God 15./16. century Model for the Brothers of Mercy
Jesus carrying the cross		Crucifixion of jesus
Kajetan von Thiene 15./16. century Co-founder of the Theatiner		Johannes Colombini 14th century founder of the Jesuats
Lamentation of Christ (Pietà)		Burial of Jesus
Francis of Sales 16./17. century Co-founder of the Salesians (Visitantinnen)		Laurentius Justinianus 14./15. century Founder of the regulated Canons of St. George
Resurrection of Christ		Ascension of Christ
Clare of Assisi 12./13. century Foundress of the Poor Clares		Teresa of Ávila 16th century Carmelite reformer
Sending out the Holy Spirit		Assumption Day
Birgitta of Sweden 14th century Founder of the Birgittines		Joan of France 15./16. century Founder of the Annunti women

The inscription "Romuald von Camaldoli" on the choir stalls is wrong, because the figure there undoubtedly represents John of Matha. Teresa of Ávila is given the wrong attribute: the cross with Christ's crown of thorns and the tools of the Passion belongs to Bernhard von Clairvaux.

See also: Table with pictures (Wikimedia Commons)

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built by the company Weigle from Echterdingen in 1978/1979. The organ has 34 stops on 3 manuals and a pedal.

Bells

The parish church currently has six bronze bells from the years 1502. 1721, 1950 and 1951 with the tone sequence of 'f' as 'b' of '' es ''.

literature

• Hubert Kohler (Ed.): Bad Schussenried. History of an Upper Swabian monastery town. Festschrift for the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Premonstratensian Foundation . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1983, ISBN 3-7995-4060-1
• Johannes May: The heavenly library in the Premonstratensian monastery Schussenried (Marbacher Magazin, special issue 87/1999). 2nd Edition. German Schiller Society, Marbach 2000, ISBN 3-933679-27-3
• Sybe Wartena: The South German choir stalls from the Renaissance to Classicism. Munich 2008 (Dissertation at the Ludwig Maximilians University)
• Dr. Otto Beck: Parish Church of St. Magnus (and Maria) Bad Schussenried, Schnell little art guides, Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich

Web links

Commons : Parish Church St. Magnus (Bad Schussenried)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Otto Beck: St. Magnus (and Maria) Bad Schussenried . In: Dr. Paul Mai (Ed.): Small art guides . 3. Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-7954-4164-1 , p. 12 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 29.5 ″  E