St. Peter and Paul (Genderkingen)

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St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic parish church in Genderkingen in the Donau-Ries district and in the Augsburg diocese with Rococo furnishings.

Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Genderkingen
View of the choir and the altars
Main fresco with the martyrdom of the church patron
Main altar
pulpit
Rococo figures of the Holy Family
Memorial plaque for the composer and pastor Franz Anton Bieger

location

The parish church is located in an east-west direction in the northern area of ​​the village at Kirchplatz 1 in a walled former cemetery.

history

Peterskirchen in places that end in "-ingen" are usually very old. According to this, a first small church could have been built in Genderkingen around 600 AD. In the 14th century the marshals of Oberndorf ruled Genderkingen; the Gothic tower of today's church dates from around 1350. In the 15th century, in 1478, the place and the church became the property of the Cistercian monastery in Kaisheim . This only changed with the secularization of the monastery in 1803.

Building history

With partial use of the walls of the previous building, an early Gothic choir tower church , the current church was rebuilt from 1750 to 1755 by Pastor Maximilian Hegenauer "with his own resources" - according to a Latin inscription on the church - and with the support of the villagers. A possible involvement of the Kaisheim monastery cannot be determined due to a lack of sources. After a period of several years of furnishing, the inauguration took place on August 30, 1781. The 19th century mainly changed the appearance of the church tower roof. The 20th century saw several exterior and interior restorations. The bells were replaced with new ones several times over the years; today's date from 1950. The most recent exterior renovation including the tower took place in 2016.

Building description

The single-nave, brick-built church has a 10.5 m wide and 16.8 m long, four-bay nave with a flat needle cap barrel . In the west the church has a double gallery. The retracted rectangular choir has a barrel with five stitch caps and is closed with a semicircle. The nave walls are divided by four high arched windows each and by painted pilasters on the outside . The sacristy was built in the southern corner of the choir . The west portal, a carved wooden door from 1740, is in the sign .

The low-looking, square tower from the Gothic period stands in the northern corner of the choir. It ends with a gable roof between stepped gables ; the sound openings underneath are coupled with a rounded arch.

Furnishing

  • The four-pillar rococo high altar was created in 1790 by the sculptor Thaddäus Kronenbitter from Neuburg an der Donau; the current version is from 1829 by Josef Kopf. In the shrine there is a crucifix with two accompanying relief medallions depicting Mary and her favorite disciple Johannes in half-length portraits. The assistant figures are the church patrons. On the classicist tabernacle, rebuilt in 1913, a pelican figure can be found as a symbol for Jesus Christ and a statue of Salvator (before 1790).
  • The north (left) side altar has two columns (around 1760). It shows a statue of the Virgin Mary with a child (around 1450/60). The assistant figures represent St. Leonhard and the Cistercian saint Bernhard von Clairvaux . In the Antependium the fall of St. Johannes Nepomuk in the Moldau depicted as a silver-framed wooden relief. On the little tabernacle there is a St. Anna selbdritt (around 1500), who came to church in 1931.
  • The southern (right) side altar (around 1760) also has two columns. The main character here is St. Sebastian , the assistant figures are St. Ulrich as the diocesan patron and St. Anthony of Padua . Here the antependium relief shows the flagellation of Christ. On the altar is a richly carved rococo shrine with the painful mother and assistant figures, a work from Kaisheim (around 1750/60).
  • The pulpit (around 1790) is marbled ocher red and decorated with silver and gold. At the lower edge of the polygonal body sit putti with symbols of Christian virtues, on the back wall there is a figure of Christ. At the sounding board , the symbols of the four show evangelists , concluding with a trumpeting angel .
  • The figurative decoration shows a “good” Madonna (around 1480; later revision), busts of St. Joachim and St. Anna (around 1730) and a late Baroque crucifixion group.
  • The 15 Stations of the Cross , oil on canvas in carved shell work frames , are attributed to Johann Baptist Enderle (around 1750–60).
  • The two confessionals and the cheeks are Rococo work (around 1750).
  • The organ , which came into the church in 1869 under Pastor Franz Anton Bieger , who was active as a composer of sacred works far beyond Genderkingen , is the work of the organ builder Steinmeyer in Oettingen . A memorial plaque in the church commemorates Pastor Bieger.

Stucco the paintings

The light Rocailles stucco was created around 1755 and was revised around 1790.

Above the choir arch there is an inscription with a chronostitch for the year 1755.

The paintings in the church are attributed to the Rococo artist Johann Baptist Enderle; two of his signatures are available and dated 1755. His uncle Anton Enderle from Günzburg may also have participated. The main fresco of the nave shows the martyrdom of the church patrons in a simple stucco frame, the surrounding cartouches show scenes from their lives in painted stucco frames. The choir fresco again depicts the church patron, with a coronation of Mary above it; The cartouche pictures are dedicated to the four other secrets of the Glorious Rosary . On the upper gallery the frescoes show the hll. Aloysius and Johannes von Nepomuk, at the lower one the hll. Josef, Franz Xaver and the torture of the so-called child saint Anderl von Rinn , a ritual murder legend .

Others

  • The parish church has a nativity scene created by the academic sculptor Sebastian Osterrieder shortly before the First World War.
  • The church choir of St. Peter and Paul can trace its tradition back to 1824.
  • The pair of keys, attribute of the church patron Peter, can be found in the community coat of arms.

Appreciation

Especially in the frescoes and the figural decorations of the altars, Rococo art is of a high standard. "The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a testimony to the fact that artistic skills from the Rococo era were not only reserved for art centers in cities and monasteries." (Gabriele Schwab)

literature

  • Bruno Bushart and Georg Paula (arrangement): Handbook of German Art Monuments by Georg Dehio , Bavaria III Swabia; 2nd, revised edition, Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2008, pp. 390f.
  • Genderkingen , in: Adam Horn (arrangement): Die Kunstdenkmäler von Schwaben, III district Donauwörth ; Munich 1951, pp. 253-255.
  • Gabriele Schwab (text) and Luis Rohrer (photos): Kath. Pfarrkirche Genderkingen. [Church leaders]; Genderkingen / Höchstädt n.d. (after 1986).
  • Karl Dasser: Johann Baptist Enderle (1725–1798), a Swabian Rococo painter; Ulm 1970.

Web links

Commons : Saints Peter and Paul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Schwab, p. 3
  3. ↑ Schwab, pp. 3–6
  4. ↑ Bushart / Paula, pp. 390f.
  5. ↑ a b Horn, p. 253
  6. ↑ a b c Bushart / Paula, p. 391
  7. ↑ a b Horn, p. 254
  8. ↑ Schwab, p. 9
  9. ↑ a b Horn, p. 255
  10. ↑ Schwab, p. 16; Horn p. 255
  11. ↑ Schwab, p. 17f.
  12. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.genderkingen.de  
  13. ↑ Awards of the church choir ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.genderkingen.com
  14. ↑ [2]
  15. ↑ Schwab, p. 23

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 31 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 44 ″  E