St. Michael (Prem)
The Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Prem am Lech , in the Upper Bavarian part of the Ostallgäu, in the district of Weilheim-Schongau , is a Gothic building with a Romanesque tower, probably built in the 14th century.
history
The Romanesque previous building was from the 12th century, 1197-1803, the church was the monastery of Steingaden from vikarisiert . When Gothic construction of the Roman church tower was taken over.
From 1754 to 1757 the parish church received a fundamental redesign, in the course of which the ribs of the choir vault were chipped off. Renovations with new versions of the ceiling frescoes took place in 1819 and 1898. During the renovation in 1973, the nave was extended and the west wall straightened.
Architecture and equipment
St. Michael consists of a three- bay nave with an elongated gallery yoke, which has a flat vault inside with stitch caps and rounded corners, and a two-bay choir with a stitch cap barrel . The Romanesque saddle roof tower on the north side is not structured. A large sign and the sacristy are built on the south side .
Furnishing
The stucco marble high altar made by Joseph Fischer in 1757 contains the sculptures of Saints Michael , Peter and Paul by Thomas Seitz . Above the side portals are the figures of saints Wolfgang and Norbert and, in the excerpt, Archangel Michael as a soul weigher .
The side altars at the same time have paintings, on the left Maria Magdalena as a sinful prayeress (1852) by J. Schmalz and on the right the death of Joseph (1739) by Johann B. Ramis. As figurative decorations, the altars show Saints Leonhard , Joseph (to the side) and Notburga (excerpt) on the left and Johannes d. Baptist and Magnus up.
The high baroque pulpit (2nd half of the 17th century) on the north wall was redesigned in the Rococo style in the years 1755–56 . The ceiling frescoes Coronation of the Virgin Mary with apostles in the nave and Archangel Michael as the general of the angels as well as the church fathers in the choir also come from Johann B. Ramis and were made in 1756. On the south wall there is a Scourge Heiland made by Johann Luidl around 1720/30 next to a statue of Sebastian . Under the gallery hang pictures of the Way of the Cross and between them a Johann Nepomuk (19th century?).
In two niches in the sign are the expressive representations of Jesus resting and a Pietà , which are of exceptional quality and date from the 17th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , pp. 985-986.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 39.4 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 11.9" E