St. Martin (Unterbernbach)

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St. Martin in Unterbernbach

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin is a monument in Unterbernbach near Kühbach .

history

St. Martin is one of the oldest churches in the Wittelsbacher Land . The previous building was probably a chapel dedicated to St. Vitus . This is still today next to Saint Martin the patron saint of the church. The Gothic tower was provided with volutes in the late Renaissance or early Baroque . The choir was built according to a date in the vault in 1488. The nave of the church was built in 1875/76 using the original, late Gothic masonry.

Building description

St. Martin is a flat-roofed hall building with a drawn-in, three-sided closed choir under a ribbed vault . The Gothic gable roof tower with arched friezes has a curved volute gable .

Furnishing

inner space

The high altar and the side altars from 1875 are neo-Gothic . The painting fragments in the choir are probably from the first half of the 16th century. They show Saints Michael and George in the vault and on the north wall the crucifixion of Christ , the Lord's Supper and the donor family. The ceiling painting in the nave is about the First World War . This was created in 1918 by the Munich painter Oswald Völkel . In the church there is a copy of the Wessobrunn miraculous image of Mary, mother of beautiful love . At the beginning of the 18th century, the brotherhood for the "Immaculate Conception of Mary" was founded around this miraculous image.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Unterbernbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b parish church "St. Martin", Unterbernbach. Diocese of Augsburg, accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Architectural monuments Kühbach. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, September 27, 2019, accessed on December 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Paula, Georg .: Swabia . 2., revised. Edition Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 .
  4. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Wessobrunner image of grace in the center. Retrieved December 14, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '52.4 "  N , 11 ° 10' 38.8"  E