St. Martin (Heimertingen)
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St. Martin is the Catholic parish church of Heimertingen in the Memmingen deanery of the diocese of Augsburg in the Unterallgäu district .
location
The church stands on a slope of the Lower Illertal on the B 300 , in the northeast of the village.
Building history
From the time of the Franconian Empire , which passed into the Holy Roman Empire , there is an exchange document from the year 853 AD, in which a church is mentioned in the district . It is likely that it was the Church of St. Martin or a previous building. Ownership of the village, blood and lower jurisdiction lay with the prince monastery of Kempten , which was declared direct from the empire in 1062 . The Edlinstett family from Memmingen later acquired property and rights . Until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803, the village was the official seat of the Principality of Fugger- Babenhausen of the Augsburg Fugger line Fugger von der Lilie . With the Rhine Confederation Act 1806, the place came to the Kingdom of Bavaria .
The east-facing church has been documented in its dimensions since the restoration in 1753 . The interior consists of a choir room and a single nave nave , above which a needle cap barrel rises. The oldest documented part of the church is the Romanesque apse from the 11th century. The sacristy dates from the Baroque period , as does the north pulpit. Other major renovations took place in the 1860s and 1880s and 1904. In the 1960s and 1970s the church was renewed.
Since 2003, the exterior of the church has been pink and white, which should correspond to the previous original condition. The churchyard of the ecclesiastical and secular community surrounds the church in the southern area. The former rectory adjoins the church complex. To the right of the southern main entrance is a communal grave of the former clergy of the community. Behind it there is a group of olives in a small annex .
Building description
Longhouse
The nave is made of rectangular tuff bricks. It has three large arched windows with hexagonal glazing.
tower
The 46 meter high tower on the south wall of the choir can be seen from afar. Its thick walls are lined with wider loopholes provided. In 1750 the tower, recognizable by the octagon , was increased to its present size. It has four sound openings. In the eaves of the church tower, dials of the church tower clock are embedded on all four sides . The onion dome of the tower is covered with plain tiles. The hood ends with a gold capsule that contains historical documents. A double cross forms the end of the spire.
Furnishing
Frescoes
The frescoes in the church were made by the Schwabmünchner painter Ferdinand Wagner . The central fresco in the choir is the representation of Mary as the Queen of the Rosary . Dominic and Catherine of Siena kneel under her . Below, on the third level, the spiritual and worldly people are gathered. Four cartouche pictures with the apostles Peter, Paul, Matthew and Simon frame the picture. On the back wall of the choir there used to be a scene from Ferdinand Wagner's Last Supper. Since 1965 there has been a depiction of the biblical scene Lamentation and Entombment of Christ , a copy from alders . The confessionals, built in 1960, are located on both sides of the choir .
High altar
The high altar , which can be assigned to the Empire style , was made in 1817. It is flanked by two golden angels framed in white.
Side altars
The two side altars have had a rococo structure since 1753. The right altarpiece shows the canonized Bishop Ulrich von Augsburg on a warhorse in a battle scene of the battle on the Lechfeld against the Huns . There is a tabernacle below the picture . The left side altarpiece shows Saint Martin dividing the coat. The themes of the three ceiling frescoes in the nave are the Annunciation, the birth of Jesus and the Assumption of Mary. The apostles Andrew, Thaddäus and Bartholomäus are depicted on the south side of the church, opposite them James the Younger, Thomas and Philip. Two other companions of Jesus, James the Elder and John with their attributes, are located above in the choir niches.
Baptismal font
The font was created around 1589. It bears the inscription B + W like the baptismal font of the Frauenkirche in Memmingen. A coat of arms of the Fugger family is attached to the pool. The baptismal font has a later made marbled wooden lid with the sculpture of John the Baptist from the middle of the 18th century. The Baptist has a cross in his right hand, and in his left a silver shell from which baptismal water runs out.
pulpit
The marbled pulpit made of wood is surrounded by four evangelists framed in white: Luke with a bull at his feet, John with a book , Mark with a lion and Matthew with the human being as an attribute. The Holy Spirit is in the shape of a dove on the underside of the sound cover. Three putti sit on the cornice of the sound cover. Above it stands John the Baptist with the banner - Ecce Agnus Dei .
Church stalls
The pews can be dated to the middle of the 18th century. In the west end of the church is the brotherhood stalls of the former Rosary Brotherhood , consisting of fifteen seats with processional poles in front of them . On the procession poles, tin signs bear images of the secrets of the joyful, painful and glorious rosary.
Galleries
At first there were two galleries . A third is documented from 1818. The load of the galleries is carried by two marbled wooden columns. Three episodes from the life of Jesus are depicted on the parapets : the expulsion of the traders, the finding of the child in the temple and the entry into Jerusalem on a donkey. The canopy for the Corpus Christi procession is kept under the gallery. On the southern side of the wall under the gallery hangs a framed altarpiece from 1700 with the Last Judgment .
organ
The organ was installed in 1988 and comes from the Riegner & Friedrich company . It comprises nineteen stops on a principal 8 'basis, which are divided into two manuals.
Bells
In 1753 four bells were hung in the tower, three of which have been preserved in the original. They are called the big bell , twelve o'clock bell , eleven o'clock bell and baptismal bell . The original eleven o'clock bell had to be delivered in World War II , has since been lost and was replaced after the war.
literature
- August Strigel: Parish Church of Sankt Martin Heimertingen . Heimertingen parish (ed.), 2006.
- Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 121-122 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Dehio : Bayern III: Schwaben , page 433
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 11.5 ″ E