St. Martin (Tannheim)

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Tannheim in the Biberach district was built between 1700 and 1702 under Abbot Franziskus Klesin by Franz Beer von Au or Franz Beer von Bleichten . At that time, the village was an exclave of the spiritual territory of the Imperial Abbey of Ochsenhausen . The church is now part of the Rot-Iller pastoral care unit in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese and is located on the eastern route of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route .

Tannheim, Sankt Martin (2011)

History, location and structure

The older wooden church from the Frankish times on the hill on the eastern edge of today's cemetery may have stood on the foundations of an old castle. After multiple looting and damage during the Thirty Years War , the church was abandoned in favor of the new building. Similar churches with the Martin's patronage can be found in Erolzheim and Kirchberg an der Iller in what is now part of the Illertal in Württemberg.

The high baroque church followed, like most of the southern German churches of this time, the Vorarlberg cathedral scheme . On September 25, 1705, the church was consecrated by the auxiliary bishop of the then diocese of Constance Konrad Ferdinand Geist von Wildegg .

During the extensive renovation after 1965, all epitaphs were removed from the church.

Furnishing

High altar

The high altar bears the coat of arms of the former abbot of the imperial abbey Ochsenhausen Coelestin Frener . The altarpiece is by Johann Georg Bergmüller .

Frescoes

Saint Martin

The painter of the frescoes was Chrysostom Forchner . The frescoes deal with the following topics:

Above the choir:

  • The theme of the first fresco by Forchner in the choir is the veneration of the lamb (Revelation 5: 8-14). There is a horned lamb on the book with the seven seals . It is worshiped by saints. Two of the patriarchs hold an incense bowl in their right hand. The four side frescoes show the evangelists with their associated attributes.
  • In the second fresco of the choir, Benedict of Nursia kneels before the Trinity . His attributes book, abbot's miter and staff are held by angels.

Above the ship:

  • The parish church itself is shown on the fresco, which is dedicated to the patron saint of the church Martin of Tours . Martin's death, Christ appears to Martin, Martin's election as bishop and the division of the mantle are depicted as scenes from his life. In the side frescoes Vitus and Urban .
  • Saint Sebastian . Felix and Regula , siblings and members of the Thebaic Legion in the side frescoes.
Organ fresco

Above the organ:

  • The fresco above the organ - homage to the name of the Virgin Mary - depicts four women, a monogram of Mary and a bluish-milky globe. The Marian monogram is surrounded by twelve stars. The four people below the monogram are supposed to symbolize the continents known at that time in 1766/67. From left to right: America with blue-white-red feather headdress and a quiver of arrows. Europe kneels in front of the central globe. She has a stylized imperial crown as headgear and a coat with ermine fur. In front of her are the miter and the pope's staff. To the right of the globe standing with a bare chested Africa in the left hand a parrot and a headgear from which an elephant trunk protrudes. At the same height as Europe, Asia with a censer and turban. A crescent moon is attached to the turban. King David and Saint Cecilia are shown in two smaller side frescoes . Both saints are related to church music.

The preference given to the founder of the order, Benedikt von Nursia, in the frescos program, in front of the actual church patron Martin, indicates that Tannheim was incorporated into the Ochsenhausen monastery.

Holy Communion in St. Martin (2013)
Fallen memorial

Former pastor of St. Martin

cenotaph

Between the church and the eastern parish house is a memorial , the war memorial Tannheim for more than one hundred fallen sons of the place from the two world wars, with dead alone in World War II and 80 were killed there 30 missing soldiers from Tannheim. The inscription on the monument reads: "God's earth is everywhere" .

literature

  • Graeflich Schaesbergisches Archiv, Tannheim (unpublished)
  • Georg Geisenhof : Brief history of the former Reichsstift Ochsenhausen in Swabia. Ganser, Ottobeuren 1829, ( digitized version )
  • Michael Habres: “Ad Dei et Sanctorum honorem.” On the building history of the Tannheim parish church. In: Local history sheets for the Biberach district. Vol. 29, No. 1, ISSN  1430-9475 , 2006, pp. 13-24
  • Günter Hütter: Church and chapels in Tannheim / Württemberg = Catholic parish church Sankt Martin in Tannheim (= art guide. No. 2033, ZDB -ID 51387-8 ). Schnell & Steiner, Munich et al. 1992
  • Catholic parish Tannheim (Ed.): 300 years of the Church of St. Martin Tannheim. Festschrift for the jubilee in 2002. Catholic parish Tannheim, Tannheim 2002

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio Baden-Württemberg II, administrative districts Freiburg and Tübingen, page 701
  2. ↑ Fallen memorials: Tannheim, Biberach district, Baden-Württemberg ; accessed on January 27, 2011

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 12 ″  E