St. Magnus (lower line)

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St. Magnus in 1847

The late Gothic fortified church of St. Magnus is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Allgäu-Oberschwaben deanery in Unterzeil, a suburb of Reichenhofen in the town of Leutkirch in the Allgäu in the Ravensburg district . It was built in its current form between 1510 and 1514 by Johann von Waldburg . There are no remains of the wooden church mentioned in 1275 .

Location and building history

The church, surrounded by a defensive wall, is located on the north-eastern edge of the village, on a small hill above the Wurzacher Ach . Immediately outside the southern wall is the former Widdumhof with tithe barn , today's town hall of Unterzeil.

Inside the wall is the cemetery with two memorials for the fallen sons of the place in the two world wars and the victims of the Nazi tyranny.

The church is a single nave nave with a tower protruding to the west and buttresses . The builder is probably the same one who built the neighboring much larger church of St. Martin in Leutkirch, which was laid in 1514.

In 1612 the collegiate church of St. Maria was completed in Schloss Zeil . Since then, St. Magnus has been a branch church of St. Maria. After destruction during the Thirty Years' War , the tower was given an onion roof in the years 1684 to 1690, in keeping with the fashion of the time. In 1828 the church and tower burned down completely. During the reconstruction it got its present appearance, with the octagonal helmet resting on an octagonal floor with corner pilasters.

Furnishing

Gallery and organ

Originally the church had a late Gothic interior, but it has changed significantly over the years. The following Baroque furnishings include the crucifixion group by Johann Ruez from 1770, the Pietà and reredos of Saints Magnus and Antonius above the side altars. The neo-Gothic high altar, choir stalls , side altars, church stalls and pulpit are from 1865 by the artist Peter Metz from Gebrazhofen .

Johann von Waldburg's son was Georg III. von Waldburg, also called the Bauernjörg . George III donated painted glass windows that broke in a severe storm with hail in 1764.

The Way of the Cross from 1948 is by August Blepp. The organ from 1899 was replaced in 2000 by a new organ from Hermann Weber from Engerazhofen.

Bells

The St. Magnus bell from 1829 still exists today. The Bell of Our Lady and St. Anthony, added in 1877, were melted down during the First World War. In 1921 the church received a Zeiler bell. In 1980, Bishop Leiprecht consecrated a third bell.

Epitaphs

In the interior of the church there are epitaphs of the following people:

  • Dorothea von Ulm, b. Hoheneck died on February 20, 1579
  • Johann Henricus Ignatius Holzinger, died May 16, 1664
  • Maria Franziska Ott, widow of the Fürstenberg Chamber of Commerce, died November 23, 1709
  • Johann Bitzenhofer, Zeil pension administrator, died September 26, 1713
  • Josef Schöggele, beneficiary in the Kollegiatstift, died August 27, 1755
  • Melchior Ziegler, Father, died July 16, 1764

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio (original), Ernst Gall (Hrsg.): Handbook of German art monuments . - Dagmar Zimdars and others: Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997. p. 795

Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 3.5 ″  E