St. Peter (Kissing)
The Catholic Chapel of St. Peter is the baroque remnant of a Romanesque choir tower church in the old village center of Kissing ( Aichach-Friedberg district , Swabia ). The small church is considered to be the oldest church building in the community area, which may be connected to the Römerstrasse in Lechfeld .
history
The Petrus patronage indicates that the church is very old. In the post-Roman-early Christian period numerous Petruskirchen were laid out along the old Roman road in Lechfeld. The nearby Augsburg may have been the seat of an early diocese.
The village of Kissing developed around the Peterskirche and the nearby castle on the Fuchsberg, of which only traces of terrain can be seen today. After the parish church of St. Stephen was built in the 12th century, St. Peter was only a side church. South of the new parish church laid their precious free Men Kissing another castle , whose mighty tower hill since the Baroque period is crowned by a chapel.
The Romanesque choir tower church on the Petersberg was rebuilt in post-Gothic forms around 1600, the tower was demolished. In the older literature, the building that has been preserved is usually viewed as the choir of a larger church, but this could be refuted by a soil survey. The formerly open pointed arch of the west wall probably only indicates a vestibule.
After the destruction during the Thirty Years' War , the Jesuits began restoring the chapel in 1661. The ribs of the post-Gothic vault were chopped off and the vault was stuccoed. The vestibule also disappeared. As early as 1658/1659 the order, which was wealthy in the village and owned the nearby Mergenthau Castle, ordered the new altar of St. Peter's Church.
Around 1730/1735 the vault was re-stuccoed. At the same time the preserved ceiling fresco was created, which is sometimes attributed to Matthäus Günther .
In the course of the secularization , this sacred building should also be demolished (1806), but this could be prevented by the efforts of the community.
description
The chapel is located on a hill tongue above the Lech Valley. The single-nave nave is spanned by the needle cap barrel of the post-Gothic vault, the ribs of which have been replaced by stucco decorations (ribbon and latticework, shells). The choir is not drawn in and closes in three sides of the octagon. A baroque roof turret with an onion dome sits above the west gable , the curved window openings close in round arches. The head of the choir is only illuminated by a tiny round window in front of which the altar stands. In place of the former buttresses , flat wall templates structure the exterior.
Most of the equipment had to be removed from the room for security reasons. The ceiling fresco in the nave shows St. Peter kneeling before Christ. Hans Sautter created the altar in 1658/1659. Two slender columns flank the altar sheet with the patron's name (Jonas Umbach, re. 1660).
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Bavaria III: Swabia . Arr .: Bruno Bushart , Georg Paula. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1989.
- Paul Grossmann: Churches of the parish Kissing . Schnell & Steiner, Kissing 1987.
- Kissing - past and present . Kissing 1983.
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 55.4 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 27.4 ″ E