St. Pankratius (Wiggensbach)

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Church of St. Pankratius in Wiggensbach
Interior view of St. Pankratius

St. Pankratius is the Catholic parish church in Wiggensbach in the Oberallgäu district .

History and description

The listed church consists of a hall with a short transept and a retracted choir and a northern saddle roof tower made of unplastered roll and quarry stone masonry. The tower is late Gothic . In the years 1770/71 an extension in the Rococo style with a nave was carried out by Johann Georg Specht .

The frescoes in the interior are by Franz Joseph Hermann and the stucco marble altars were built by Johann Georg Wirth .

The church is dedicated to St. Pancras . The high altar dates from 1773.

Web links

Commons : St. Pankratius (Wiggensbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 153f.
  3. Holy Pankratius on Jakobuspilgergemeinschaft-augsburg.de: Oberallgäu - 1st stage
  4. www.allgaeu.info: Churches and Monasteries ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 77; PDF file @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allgaeu.info

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 44.3 "  N , 10 ° 13 ′ 53.7"  E