St. Michael (Kettershausen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Michael is located in Kettershausen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building.
history
The late Gothic church tower dates from around 1500. The church choir, originally from the same period, was completely redesigned in the neo-Romanesque style by Hugo von Kern in the years 1855-1859.
Building description
The church is a flat-roofed hall building with a pilaster structure. There is a double gallery on the west side . The heavily drawn-in, three-sided closed choir adjoins the nave . There are oratorios with triple arcades on both sides of the choir . There is a stab cap barrel in the choir . This is located above wall templates flanked by quarter columns. The outer facade of the nave is structured by pilaster strips and arched friezes. A relief figure of Christ created by Johann Riedmiller in 1858 is located in the western vestibule in the tympanum .
Furnishing
The church has a neo-Romanesque interior that was created around 1858. It goes back to designs by Thomas Guggenberger. The high altar contains a crucifixion group from the years 1720/30. The assistant figures of the high altar come from the same time. On the right side altar there is a carved Virgin Mary from 1510/20. The Mother of God is an Ulm work from Gregor Erhart's environment .
The frescoes in the choir were created in 1858/59 by Thomas Guggenberger, in the nave in 1896 by Basilio Coletti. They show scenes from the Old and New Testament .
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 580 .
- Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 133-134 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-221-8
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 5.4 " N , 10 ° 15 ′ 42.7" E