St. Peter and Paul (Großkötz)
St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic parish church in Großkötz , a district of the municipality of Kötz in the Bavarian district of Günzburg . She belongs to the dean's office Günzburg in the diocese of Augsburg .
location
The church building stands on a ridge and is visible from afar. The church can be reached from the north via a staircase or from the south via the cemetery. Most of the cemetery is south of the church; some older graves are also on the east, north and west sides in the immediate vicinity of the church building. The entrance is on the west side across from a small Mount of Olives chapel.
history
A first church was probably built in the 12th century at the latest. A Gothic church was built on the same site around 1480 . On February 10, 1496, the Saint Sebastian Brotherhood was founded. In 1541 the parish of St. Peter and Paul was established. A large crucifix (now on the east wall of the choir) and a Maria with child (now on the north-east corner of the nave) have been preserved from the late medieval period . Johann Konrad Ehinger had the choir altar renovated in 1612 and the ciborium in 1626 . After his death on February 16, 1633, he was buried in the parish church next to the altar of the Magi .
The community of Großkötz was pledged to the realm of Wettenhausen for 30 years in 1746 . During the years that it belonged to the Augustinian Canons of Wettenhausen, today's rectory in 1755 as the summer residence of the provost and the church in 1764/1765 were fundamentally rebuilt and furnished by master builder Joseph Dossenberger .
In 1867 the church was given new furnishings (altars, pulpit, choir stalls, choir screens, figures of saints) in the neo-Romanesque style. Around 1965 this equipment was removed again in the course of a further renovation. Between 1997 and 1999 the church was renovated again.
Furnishing
The frescoes are by Johann Anwander from Lauingen . In Dossenberger's time, the church was richly stuccoed in rococo .
organ
The organ is located above the entrance area on the upper floor of the two-story gallery. In 1755, Alexander Holzhay from Tussenhausen built an organ. It was replaced in 1929 by a new instrument made by organ builder Max Dreher from Augsburg. Maximilian Offner from Kissing built today's organ in 1990, which has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal . Offner integrated six stops from Dreher's predecessor organ.
Monument protection
The Church of St. Peter and Paul is included in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments as an architectural monument with the file number D-7-74-148-3.
War memorial
On the north side of the church building, near the staircase, there is a war memorial that is supposed to commemorate the dead of the place in three wars.
literature
- Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Günzburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.91 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-589-6 , p. 281-284 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ St. Peter and Paul Großkötz in the Bavarian Monument Atlas Online (as of December 8, 2016) , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, geoportal.bayern.de, accessed on April 5, 2017 (.pdf file)
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 23.5 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 46.5 ″ E