St. Moritz (Zell)
St. Moritz in Zell is the Catholic parish church of the Eisenberg community in Ostallgäu , which also includes the Maria Hilf pilgrimage church and the St. Rasso chapel .
history
The parish of Zell was originally a curate of the parish of Hopfen . After the von Freyberg family was enfeoffed with the rule of Eisenberg, they tried to found a parish independent of hops here. To this end, she had a church built in Zell soon after 1400. In 1460, Bishop Peter von Augsburg approved a foundation by the pastor in Hopfen so that an auxiliary chaplain could read mass here on Sundays and public holidays. Accordingly, a house of God must have existed in Zell back then. An Oswald Keller was not mentioned as a chaplain until 1545.
The Knights of Freyberg chose Saint Mauritius , patron saint of the army, to be the patron saint of the new church .
As building studies show, the church was rebuilt and enlarged several times. Around 1710, a solidly constructed choir dome, probably on top of a building stock from the late Gothic or early modern era, was put on. In 1800 the church tower was in danger of collapsing. It was demolished and re-performed "from scratch" until 1816. The church was then expanded around 1870, when the nave of the church on the west side was extended by about four meters. The last renovation was completed in 2007. It was mainly aimed at securing and refreshing the frescoes.
Furnishing
The Church Foundation of St. Moritz has always had to get by with relatively little capital. That is why the furnishings of the church are simple. The very high quality ceiling fresco in the nave is an exception. According to the signature, it was painted by the prince-bishop's court painter Joseph Keller in 1775 and shows St. Joseph as intercessor. People kneel behind the balustrades who, in contrast to other figures, are portrayed in portraits. Presumably it is the donors of the fresco, on the left probably Klemens Karl von Freyberg-Eisenberg with his wife Ignatia Franziska von Pfuhl and across from them their bailiff Johann Baptist Reichert and his wife Anna Hacker, each with children.
The four evangelists in the spandrels of the choir ceiling are also likely to be by Keller. The longitudinally oval central fresco, on the other hand, depicts the martyrdom of the patron saint of the Church, St. Mauritius, by an unknown artist. It had already been painted over and could be exposed during the last restoration and added again.
A particularly old piece of equipment is a holy water font on the right side of the southern entrance. It shows the coats of arms of the von Freyberg and von Hohenems families. This means that the red marble stone can be identified as the foundation of Peter von Freyberg-Eisenberg (died 1530) and his wife Praxedis von Hohenems.
literature
- Anton Steichele: The Diocese of Augsburg , Vol. IV, Augsburg 1883
- Bertold Pölcher: From the history of the parish and parish church of St. Moritz in Zell , in the commemorative publication 200 years of the parish of St. Moritz, 1987
- Albert Guggemos: Eisenberg through the ages, Eisenberg municipality 2006
- Erwin Georg Hipp / Ulrich Lange / Bertold Pölcher: Zell im Allgäu with its parish church St. Moritz , self-published by Prof. Dr. Erwin Georg Hipp, 2007
- Michael Petzet: Bavarian Art Monuments - City and District of Füssen , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1960
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Ludwig Dorn, The visitation protocol of the Diocese of Augsburg from 1549 , in the yearbook of the Association for the History of the Diocese of Augsburg , 12th year, Augsburg 1978, p. 213
- ↑ Martin Stankowski, report by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, 2002
- ^ Parish archives of Zell, saints' invoices
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 14.6 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 14.6 ″ E