St. Nicholas (Kardorf)

The church of St. Nikolaus in Kardorf , Upper Swabia, is a branch church of the Illerbeuren parish .

St. Nicholas in Kardorf

location

The church is centrally located in the village of Kardorf, a district of the Kronburg community in Upper Swabia on a hill above the Iller . Around the church there is a walled village cemetery.

history

Nothing is known about the earlier church. What is certain is that building materials from the previous church were used for the new building in 1730. The church was built by the Rot an der Rot monastery under the abbot Hermann Vogler . At least the lower late medieval tower floor was reused.

Building description

The choir room

The east- facing single-nave aisle church has three window axes and a slightly recessed choir with two window axes in front of it. The choir is closed in a semicircle; on the north side there is a square tower with an octagon and an onion dome. The windows are closed at the top and bottom with rounded arches. Between the tower and the choir there is a two-storey extension with a pent roof as a sacristy.

Furnishing

The furnishings come from the time it was built around 1730. Hermann Vogler's coat of arms with the designation 1730 is attached above the sacristy door. The choir fresco shows St. Norbert von Xanten with his attributes and is surrounded by ornamental paintings on the side. In the nave there is a fresco of St. Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld on the north side of the choir arch , and one of St. John Nepomuk on the south side . The ceiling fresco of the nave is about the transfiguration of the church patron Nikolaus von Myra . The altar sheet of the baroque high altar contains a copy of the Innsbruck miraculous image of Mariahilf under a canopy held by white angels . Saints Joachim and Anna can be seen in the excerpt . In the choir room, the saints Andrew and Nicholas stand on consoles on the walls . The simple confessional on the south side of the choir has a statue of St. Nicholas on top. The pulpit on the south side is simple. In a bulge on the north wall there is a seated Madonna from the mid-14th century. A gallery is built into the west wall.

See also

• List of churches and chapels in the administrative community Illerwinkel

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Bavaria III: Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03008-5 , p. 519-520 .
• Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Bavarian art monuments. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 131-132 .

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 19.6 ″  E