St. Martin (winter peace)

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Church of St. Martin in Winterrieden
inside view

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin is located in Winterrieden in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building.

history

Including parts of the late Gothic predecessor church, St. Martin was built from 1751 by Johann III Wiedemann . Four years later in 1755 the church was consecrated. The single-nave church building from the 18th century was expanded to a three-nave church in 1987/1988 according to plans by Franz Xaver Gärtner and Peter Jenkel .

Building description and equipment

The slightly retracted choir, closed on three sides , has an oval flat dome. The square church tower on the south side is finished with an onion dome. The high altar from 1961 is made of stucco marble and is executed in the neo-coco style. The altarpiece , created by Franz Georg Hermann around 1753, shows Saints Martin and Benedict in front of Our Lady . To the right and left of the high altar, above the passages, are the figures of the Emperor Constantine and his mother, Saint Helena from around 1720/1730. Johann Georg Wirth created the economical rococo stucco from 1753 . The choir arch is adorned with the coat of arms of Abbot Benedikt Denzel of the Ochsenhausen monastery , who built the church. The frescoes in the church from 1753 are by Franz Georg Hermann . In the choir the glory and in the nave the donation of the coat of Saint Martin is shown. The gussets in the nave bear pictures of the church fathers and the saints Joseph and John of Nepomuk . The paintings of the evangelists in the spandrels in the choir date from the 19th century. The baptismal font dates from 1676. The paintings of the Archangel Raphael leading the young Tobias and the Holy Spirit as a youth come from the middle of the 18th century. The Way of the Cross was created by Fanz Joseph Zeller in 1851. The wooden figure of the Pietà dates from around 1680/1690.

organ

The Sandtner Organ (1998)

In 1998 the church received a new organ with a slider shutter . It replaced a Heinrich Koulen organ . The instrument with 18  stops on three manuals and a pedal was built by the Dillingen organ building company Sandtner . Some stops from the previous organ were taken over into the new work. She has the following disposition :

II main work C–
1. Principal 8th'
2. Covered 8th'
3. Harmony flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. flute 4 ′
6th Super octave 2 ′
7th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
I + III swell C–
8th. Reed flute 8th'
9. Gamba 8th'
10. Vox coelestis 8th'
11. Transverse flute 4 ′
12. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Piccolo 2 ′
14th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Tremulant
Pedal C–
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. Octave bass 08th'
17th Chorale bass 08th'
18th bassoon 16 ′

  • Pietà around 1680/1690

  • Ceiling fresco in the nave with the scene of the donation of the coat of St. Martin

  • Baptismal font from 1676

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 1124-1122 .
  • Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 224-226 .

Web links

Commons : St. Martin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry D-7-78-217-2
  3. ↑ Details on the St. Martin Winterrieden organ , sandtner-orgelbau.de, accessed on December 8, 2016.

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 13 ″  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 30.5 ″  E