St. Martin (Boos)
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The Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Boos in Upper Swabia in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria is a listed building. The church, first mentioned in the 14th century and formerly belonging to the Fuggern family, was completed in its current form at the beginning of the 18th century. It can be seen from afar in the lower Illertal and with its 34 meter high tower represents a strong urban accent in the center of the village.
history
The church was first mentioned in a parish description from 1312. Heinrich von Reichau founded the early Mass beneficiary in 1315. When the church was owned by the Stebenhaber patrician family from Memmingen , the Reformation was also introduced in St. Martin for a short time. When the property passed to the Fuggers in 1551 , they reinstated the old rite and the place was re-Catholicized. The oldest structural components are the choir from the 14th to 15th centuries and the Gothic substructure of the 34 meter high church tower. Michael Stiller rebuilt the nave between 1711 and 1713 after the old one had been demolished, as well as the three western axes of the north wall of the choir . The upper floor of the tower was renewed in 1728. The gallery stairway in front of the west facade probably also dates from this time. A comprehensive exterior renovation took place in 1975, the last exterior and interior renovation was completed in 2011.
Building description
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The single-nave nave with four window axes has a barrel vault with stitch caps . The windows have stepped round arches and the facade is structured with Tuscan pilasters . The pilasters inside have cranked entablature pieces. The eastern nave gable has three transversely oval windows. The west facade is also structured with pilasters and the gable with cornices and pilaster strips. Inside on the west side, a two-storey gallery rests on Tuscan wooden columns. A three-part princely box from the second quarter of the 18th century in the middle of the lower gallery bears an alliance coat of arms of Fugger (from the lily) and Schenk von Castell, that is, the last Booser Fugger: Count Christoph Moritz and his wife Maria Walburga, née Schenk von Castell, who married on February 6, 1758.
The retracted choir is connected to the nave by a pressed choir arch with a 5/8 end . The choir has a flat barrel vault made of wooden slats. There are triangular buttresses with a water hammer at the end of the choir . The north facade of the choir is structured with pilasters. Inside the choir has a surrounding entablature and is also structured with pilasters.
The church tower is on the south side of the choir. The substructure is not structured. The beginnings of a cross vault can be seen in the basement . The upper floor has sound arcades coupled on all sides . The tower substructure with a square floor plan has an octagonal structure. There are also sound arcades on all sides. The onion dome is covered with sheet copper.
The two-storey, rectangular sacristy is located on the south side of the choir and is closed on three sides to the east. Both floors have flat ceilings . The stairway to the gallery is in front of the west facade. The transversely rectangular extension has a round-arched window in the middle, two round, closed transverse windows on the sides and has a hipped roof. The staircase to the pulpit north of the nave is designed as a transverse rectangular turret with a sheet metal-covered onion dome.
Furnishing
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Altars
The high altar dates from around 1713 and consists of a gray marbled sarcophagus-shaped cafeteria and the altar structure made of black marbled wood. The Immaculata in the middle of the structure was probably created by Ignaz Waibel ; it is framed by gilded decor with acanthus and fruit hangings. In place of the figure of Immaculata, an altar sheet with the representation of the Mother of God with guardian angels by Johann Friedrich Sichelbein can be used. Free columns in front of split pilasters flank the high altar. There are figures on the consoles.
The two side altars are from around 1720/1730 and consist of marbled wooden structures. There are reliquary shrines in the canteens . In the left side altar, St. Catherine is shown in the altarpiece . Figures of St. Francis de Sales and St. John of Nepomuk are on the consoles . St. Ignatius of Loyola is shown in the extract . The right side altar contains a picture of Saints Anna and Mary . The right side altar is flanked by figures of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist . Saint Francis Xavier is shown in the extract on the right.
pulpit
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The pulpit was made around 1730 and is made of marbled wood. The polygonal basket is structured with free columns. In the fields in between there are neo-Gothic figures. The pulpit door is flanked by pilaster strips with fruit hangings. There is a trumpet angel on the sound cover of the pulpit .
Stalls
The two western confessionals were made around 1720. In the crown flanked by volutes there are images of Saints Peter and Magdalena. The confessionals on the east side are replicas from the 19th century. In the crown there are pictures of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well as well as the parable of the prodigal son. The simple lay chairs dates from 1713 and has curved cheeks. The communion bench balustrade dates from the beginning of the 18th century .
painting
The paintings in the choir arch show coats of arms held by angels in three oval fields. In the middle field the church founded on the rock is shown in the form around the year 1713. The paintings in the choir and nave by Thomas Guggenberger and Leo Scheerer were created during the restoration from 1859 to 1861. The Annunciation and the dream of Joseph in the choir are with “Th. Guggenberger pinx 1860 “signed. The eight medallions on the side show Old Testament angel stories. In the main fields of the nave there are depictions of the Adoration of the Shepherds , the Flight into Egypt and the Temptation of Jesus . In the nave, New Testament angel stories are depicted in the oval medallions. The picture of Christ on the Mount of Olives above the gallery dates from around 1713 . The painting above the lower gallery with St. Martin and a view of Boos dates from the middle of the 19th century. Saint Isidore with angels plowing, also with a view of Boos, is on the north side under the lower west gallery. In the middle there is a picture of angels burying the corpse of St. Catherine and on the south side the mystical marriage of St. Catherine . The pictures date from around 1713.
Baptismal font
The red marble font probably dates from the beginning of the 18th century. The fluted basin rests on a bulging round pillar. The dome-shaped curved lid is made of marbled wood and dates from the second half of the 18th century.
characters
There are several wooden figures in the church. Ivo Strigel , the figure from the end of the 15th century of St. Attributed to Martin sharing the coat. The figures of St. Johannes von Nepomuk, the Walburga, Maria and the Joseph date from the middle of the 18th century. The crucifix with Mary and John is from the beginning of the 18th century. The two lecture crosses date from the 18th century as well as the figure of St. Sebastian.
In the church there are six processional poles below the gallery. There are mounted wooden figures on the procession poles. From the first half of the 17th century the figures of St. Rochus and St. Sebastian. From the 18th century the figures of a guardian angel, the Archangel Michael, St. Victorian and St. Walburga.
Funerary monuments
In the church there is an epitaph for Johanna Katharina von Fugger-Boos († 1734) as a red marble relief with an alliance coat of arms and an inscription cartouche. Another epitaph for a member of the Fugger-Boos family dates from 1760/1770; the inscription is weathered, the gilding of the Rocailles decoration is still preserved. A pastor's tombstone from the 16th century is badly damaged. A sandstone epitaph on the southern facade dates from the first half of the 19th century. There are epitaphs for Franz Ignaz Gast († 1728), Martin Schmid († 1730), Maria Franziska von Kolb († 1773), Johann Nepomuk Ignaz von Kolb († 1793) and Caecile on metal panels in the church and on the outer facade of the nave by Neth († 1789).
organ
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The organ is on the upper gallery. An organ by an unknown builder was already in existence around 1725. The current instrument comes from the workshop of the Füssen organ builder Balthasar Pröbstl and was built in 1894. In order to fit the work into a case, Pröbstl expanded the originally five-part baroque prospectus to include the two segment-arched side panels. The organ was restored in 1983 by Gerhard Schmid and in the meantime again by the organ building company Maier ( Hergensweiler ). The organ has 15 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Reliquary in the left side altar
Guardian angel figure on a procession pole , 18th century
West side: galleries and Pröbstl organ
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literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 214 .
- Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 75-77 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry D-7-78-120-4 ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Der Landkreis Unterallgäu, Volume II, editor Hermann Haisch, ISBN 3-9800649-2-1 , page 942
- ^ Georg Brenninger: Organs in Swabia . Bruckmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-7654-2001-8 .
- ↑ Restoration of the St. Martin organ in Boos , orgelbau-maier.de, accessed on April 2, 2017.
- ^ Orgel St. Martin in Boos in the Orgelauskunft database ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , orgelauskunft.de, accessed on April 2, 2017, pdf file, p. 31.
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Historische Orgeln in Schwaben (= 94th publication of the Society of Organ Friends ). Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7954-0431-2 , pp. 68 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 10 ° 11 ′ 41.2 ″ E