St. Peter and Paul (Lautrach)

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Church of St. Peter and Paul in Lautrach

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is located in Lautrach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building. It is dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul .

history

In 1735 the nave and the choir were rebuilt. During this construction phase, older parts of the building were very likely reused. The lower floors of the church tower date from the 12th or 13th century. The upper tower floors are late medieval . The church tower was provided with a gable roof in 1604 , but rebuilt in 1711 by Christian Anton Weber . The nave was extended in 1749 by an axis to the west.

Building description

The nave consists of four window axes. The sides are each equipped with two arched arcades . In the nave there are windows with stepped round arches. The southern of the two chapels contains only simple arched windows. The nave is provided with a flat barrel with lance caps . The two chapels contain a flat ceiling . After a pressed choir arch, the rectangular choir joins. This is finished with a butt-broken end wall. The choir has a flat cross vault . In the front wall of the choir there is a round arched door framed with pilaster strips. The nave of the church and the chapels are covered with a hipped roof.

Furnishing

inside view
Madonna
Northern chapel with the figure of St. Sebastian and the wooden reliquary

The high altar is made of marbled wood and was made around 1758. Christ carrying the cross is depicted on the altar panel , it bears the inscription Franc. Ludo. Herman invenit et pinx. 1758 . The altar painting is surrounded by staggered, diagonally placed columns. The side altars date from the middle of the 18th century and, like the high altar, are made of marbled wood. The left side altar contains a modern altar sheet. The right side altar shows St. John of Nepomuk and dates from the 18th century. The two excerpts from the side altars are surrounded by putti heads and show God on the left and angel putti on the right. The canteen of the high altar as well as the canteens of the side altars and the southern chapel are concave.

The ceiling paintings were created by Franz Ludwig Hermann around 1759 . The ceiling paintings were partly heavily revised and renewed in the course of the renovation in 1904. God the Father, the adoration of the Eucharist and the Archangel Michael are depicted in the choir . The east end of the nave bears a painting of the Holy Spirit surrounded by angels. The nave ceiling is decorated with the martyrdom of Peter and Paul and is a modern replica. The glory of the names of Jesus and Mary are affixed to the shield walls in the nave.

The pulpit is like the altars made of marbled wood and decorated with gold-plated Roccailledekor. This was created around 1758 and consists of a curved basket and a basket-arched pulpit door. The dove of the Holy Spirit is on the sound cover. Consisting of sandstone made baptismal font dates from the second half of the 16th century. The choir stalls and the pews of the church are made of softwood and date from the late 18th century.

There are several wooden figures in the church. These are a Mother of God around 1460, a St. Anna Selbdritt from 1720/30, the figures Petrus and Paulus from 1750/60 and a crucifix from the middle of the 18th century. A processional pole from the 18th century contains the wooden figure of Our Lady surrounded by a rosary. In the church there are the epitaphs of Christoph Bernhard Giel von Gielsberg († 1653) and Wolff Philipp von Landau zu Lautrach († 1566). Two tombstones from the end of the 18th century are still attached to the outer wall of the choir.

Northern chapel

The altar of the chapel was made of wood around 1700. The modern altarpiece is made of wooden figures of St. Joseph and Antony of Padua surrounded. The pull-out niche contains the figure of St. Sebastian , to the right and left of it are the figures of St. Augustine and a holy bishop. The altar is crowned by angels and a wooden reliquary . The ceiling painting of the northern chapel shows the glorification of a saint. There is a weathered coat of arms stone on the outer wall of the chapel.

Southern chapel

The veil of Veronica is depicted on the ceiling painting of the southern chapel. The marbled wooden structure of the altar dates from the early 18th century. The wooden niche structure bears a Vespers from 1420. The heart of Jesus is shown in glory in the elevator.

See also

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer : City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 139-141 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-164-6 ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / geodaten.bayern.de
  3. ^ Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 139
  4. ^ Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, pp. 139, 140
  5. ↑ a b c d Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 140
  6. ↑ a b c d e Tilmann Breuer; Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 141.

Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '43.8 "  N , 10 ° 6' 48.4"  E