St. Otmar (Ottmarsfeld)

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The church in August 2014

The St. Otmar Church is a Roman Catholic church in Ottmarsfeld , a district of Höttingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is a branch church of the parish of St. Georg in Ellingen in the parish association Weißenburg in Bavaria in the deanery Weißenburg-Wemding . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-141-21 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval , underground components of the church are also registered as a ground monument (number: D-5-6931-0007). The patronage of the church is St. Otmar von St. Gallen , after whom the village is presumably named.

The hall church is essentially a Romanesque complex from the second half of the 12th century. The church is a rectangular building with an attached in the east truss - roof skylights . Romanesque arched windows have been preserved on the east side ( choir side ) . The church was expanded in 1603 and from 1670 to 1680. The ceiling shows stucco from the Baroque period (around 1670–1680). On the altar you can see the coat of arms of the Teutonic Order Master Johann Caspar von Ampringen (1664–1684), under which the church was made Baroque. The altarpiece (Maria appears to St. Othmar) was painted in 1885 by Alois Süßmeier from Eichstätt in the Nazarene style . It is flanked by two wooden figures of St. Michael and St. George . Other wooden figures are a St. Katharina (from the beginning of the 16th century) and a Madonna on a cloud base (from the end of the 17th century). Another renovation of the church took place in 1912. The cemetery is walled. The building also served as a fortified church .

In 1670 the Teutonic Order priest and director of the Mergentheim seminary, Johann Caspar Venator, stated in a visit report: "[...] Ottmarsfelden, in the latter only a chapel, which was probably built."

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catholic Filialkirche St. Otmar , list of monuments of the municipality of Höttingen at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf)
  2. ↑ 800 years of the German Order. P. 408

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 54.7 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 38.1 ″  E