St. Magnus (Lenzfried)
The Catholic parish church St. Magnus is a former monastery church of the abolished Franciscan monastery St. Bernhardin in Lenzfried , a parish village of Kempten . The hall building has a late Gothic core structure and was given its current floor plan in the 17th century. A Joseph chapel was integrated into the north wall. The easted church is structurally connected to the monastery building.
The church is consecrated to St. Magnus von Füssen .
history
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On December 4, 1466, the first Franciscan monastery church of St. Bernhard was consecrated. In 1665 the Franciscans took over the parish of the monastery church, which had been elevated to the parish church of St. Magnus since 1642. Under the prince abbot Rupert von Bodman , at the same time as the new monastery was built in 1683 by the monastery master builder Hans Mayer, the parish church was probably also remodeled. The Joseph Chapel was built in 1688 and a crypt was laid out in front of the high altar in 1699.
In 1720 the body of the catacomb saint Constantius came to the monastery and parish church as a relic. The driving force behind this relic was the Abbey Court official and nephew of Prince Abbot Johann Franz Josef Leopold von Bodmann (1675–1733). He was buried behind a coat of arms tombstone in the stairwell of the parish and had the event recorded in a five-part cycle of paintings. The painting depicts the transfer of the saint in a glass shrine carried by four Franciscans, with a fifth carrying the lecture cross in front, and little acolytes carrying the candles in the procession from the monastery to the church. According to the hierarchy, primarily secular persons advance, followed by simple monks at the end.
The tower of the church was built according to the plans of the builder Hugo von Höfl , it was built in 1892 and 1893. In 1921 the church was restored. The bell of the tower dates back to 1949.
In 1979/81 the interior was renovated again and in 1987 the newly designed church square was consecrated.
description
The church joins the monastery north on the main street (Lenzfrieder Straße). The retracted, three-sided closed choir is late Gothic in the wall core with a baroque barrel vault over a cornice . The choir arch is round.
The pointed arch windows are walled up on the east side and rounded on the inside on the sloping sides. In the nave with its pressed barrel vault, irregular arched windows can be seen over the throats. On the outside, the facade is characterized by a round arch frieze and pilaster structures from the 19th century.
The west facade has three staggered round arch openings and a round arched portal with side circular windows.
Furnishing
The church is furnished with a pulpit , a baptismal font and choir stalls from 1884.
Altars
The altars date from around 1750. The high altar was acquired by the Lechfeld Monastery in 1748 and reworked in 1884 and set back six meters. There is an oval altarpiece between double columns . It depicts Mary as intercessor , queen of heaven and protector of the Franciscans in court with Saints Magnus and Ulrich . The works of art are attributed to the Abbey Court painter Franz Georg Hermann .
The two double-columned altars have oval portraits similar to the high altar. To the north, St. Francis is depicted in the altar panel and St. Louis is depicted in the excerpt . In the southern altar, St. Anthony and St. Elisabeth are depicted in the excerpt. The altars are signed with Franz Hermann 1750 .
Stucco and fresco
The coat of arms and the portrait of Prince Abbot Rupert von Bodman are painted in a cartouche above the choir arch . On the choir ceiling is stucco, which is used as a frame for the frescoes in the style of the late 17th century with putti , foliage and fruit sticks, acanthus and shells. The painting in the choir shows the life of St. Francis of Assisi . On the ceiling of the nave there are frame stucco fields with foliage and ribbon work from around 1720 with frescoes by Schweikhardt from 1884. This includes the rosary ceremony, Magnus von Füssen and Cäcilia of Rome with a modern representation of the four evangelists .
The nave contains a large ceiling painting with Magnus as the Apostle of Allgäu preaching to the Gentiles.
Gallery
The two-storey gallery in the west of the Magnuskirche was built in 1884 instead of the nuns gallery originally connected to the Franciscan convent by a corridor. Under the gallery, a section of the corridor of the department festival wing is separated as a baptistery to the south.
Church tower with bell
The seven bells of the parish church were cast by the Grüninger bell foundry in 1949 and are spread over three floors. The bells, consecrated on May 22, 1949, are carried by a wooden structure in the 56 meter high tower, which was built from October 13, 1892 to November 10, 1893 with funds from the church building association. The original bell, which was hung up in 1894, was melted down in World War I like the successor bell in World War II .
The bell from 1949 has the tone combination B ', des', es', f', as', b 'and c' and weighs about seven tons. The largest bell has a weight of 2.5 tons with a diameter of 1.66 meters. In the 1960s the tower was fitted with an electric tower clock from Fendt, which is now known as a tractor manufacturer . The old tower clock found its way into the tower clock museum of the city of Mindelheim. In 1986 the bell was equipped with an electric hammer and bell.
Chapels
Joseph's Chapel
The Joseph Chapel is attached to the north wall of the church and lies above the Franciscan crypt . The flat, two- bay chapel with a needle cap barrel has a round arched window axis in the north.
The four-column altar in the side chapel is attributed to Franz Georg Hermann . The marbled altar is decorated with shell work . The altarpieces show St. Peter of Alcantara and, in the extract, St. Joseph. In the cafeteria there is a reliquary of St. Constantine under a Bodmann coat of arms.
In the Joseph Chapel there are wooden figures of the two saints Anna selbdritt and Joachim . The stalls in this chapel date from the early 18th century and have curved cheeks with banded carved relief .
Baptistery
In the baptistery there is a large crucifixion group with Mary and John, which is said to date from around 1680/90.
literature
- Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 109-111 .
- Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, pp. 416–417.
- Alexander Duke of Württemberg: City of Kempten (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.85 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , p. 116-117 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Wolfgang Petz, Josef Kirmeier, Wolfgang Jahn and Evamaria Brockhoff (eds.): "Citizen diligence and prince-luster." Imperial city and prince abbey of Kempten. House of Bavarian History , Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-927233-60-9 , pp. 193f.
- ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 237 f .
- ↑ Karl Bauch: The church tower of Lenzfried. In: Parish Council Sankt Magnus (Ed.): 350 years parish St. Magnus in Lenzfried. Kempten 1992, Agrar Verlag Allgäu, p. 25f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 39.3 " N , 10 ° 20 ′ 22.5" E