St. Peter and Paul (Niederstaufen)
St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic parish church in Niederstaufen . It dates from the 19th century.
prehistory
A legend to live Guta Adelberg in the 12th century at the castle Adelsberg, the east was of low baptisms. A previous building by St. Peter and Paul is said to go back to the legacy of this pious woman. Because Guta von Adelberg had decided that after her death, her body should be placed on an ox cart. A church should be built where the oxen would come to a stop.
In fact, the existence of a church in Niederstaufen is already documented for the middle of the 13th century: In a letter dated September 17, 1249, Pope Innocent IV guaranteed the Mehrerau monastery the right of patronage over the church in Niederstaufen. The place was called "Understophen" in this document. In 1369, Abbot Walter von Schauffhausen sold the place to Count Heinrich von Montfort-Tettnang, and in 1523 it was sold on to the House of Habsburg and thus part of the Austrian rule of Bregenz . From 1787 Niederstaufen belonged to the Weiler district court, which passed into Bavarian ownership in 1805.
According to a letter from Pastor Balthasar Gerum, Guta von Adelberg's grave was still there in 1652 in what was then Niederstaufen church. There are two panels from 1675 that remind of Guta von Adelberg and show a picture of the parish church at that time. The tower of this church had a gable roof . It was changed in 1690 and 1723. After the church became dilapidated, it was replaced by a new building, which was inaugurated in 1828.
The fact that a new church was being built at that time also had something to do with the administrative structure of the place. The two districts of Unter- and Oberstaufen existed in medieval times. Unterstaufen as well as the western and southwestern branches belonged to the abovementioned Mehrerau monastery. Oberstaufen, however, belonged to the Langnau monastery and was cared for by Hergensweiler from the end of the 18th century . After the two districts had been united and Oberstaufen had been re-parish, the parish of St. Peter and Paul Niederstaufen needed a larger church than before.
The plans for the church were created by a “brave master mason” and approved by the authorities. The cost of construction ranged from 7,000 to 8,000 fl.
A chaplain was funded by various bequests; Part of this was a teacher from Geislehen and three unmarried Hoferben from Hölzlers who were persuaded by a priest to their salvation's sake a corresponding donation to make. From this, however, the congregation was obliged to build a house for this chaplain. Therefore the so-called chaplain's house was built; it has the address Allgäustraße 28.
description
The church, built between 1825 and 1831, was expanded in 1871 by a sacristy , which was added to the tower on the east side. The interior of the building was renovated for the first time in 1895. At that time the church also received a new organ.
In a further redesign of the interior in 1953, the wall and ceiling paintings that had been attached in 1895 were whitewashed. These paintings were exposed again in 1994.
In 1927, 1931 and 1977 restorations were carried out on the exterior of the church.
Furnishing
Of the five bells with the tuning h ° d 'e' g 'a', four were cast at the Wolfart-Kuhn bell foundry in Lauingen in 1949 , the fifth is a little older: It comes from the Ulrich brothers' foundry in Kempten, where it was cast in 1922.
The side altar sheet with the Adoration of the Three Magi comes from Alois Keller from Pfronten . The oil painting with the dimensions 230 × 120 cm was created in 1827. According to Bauchronik, Keller received 52 fl. 42 kr. For twelve pictures of the apostles on the walls of the nave, which he painted in oil on wood, he received 66 florins. The apostle medallions are 122 × 92 cm in size.
On February 4, 1850, the unmarried journeyman bricklayer Joseph Gaurüder from Unterelching tried to steal a gold cross with a silver chain from the tabernacle of the church. According to a report in the Augsburger Tagblatt , early in the morning of that day he was surprised by the sacristan's son in the bell tower and said he was looking for a swallow's nest. After he was locked in the church and questioned about a duplicate key in the tabernacle, he tried to hide his booty; Objects came to light that he had stolen the day before in the church of Weißensberg . "Gaurüder fully admits the theft of the church in Weißensberg," wrote the newspaper, "but he does not want to know the slightest thing about the theft in Niederstaufen, because he was completely drunk and when he came to, he found himself in prison [ sic!]. Now it is testified that the Rößlewirthin bought four halves of new lake wine for four kr. had drunk, but he was still able to walk properly, and one doesn't get drunk so easily from said wine [...] ”Gaurüder was found guilty at the trial and sentenced to eight years at work.
Web links
- Church bells and a brief description on www.youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ a b Who we are , at www.kirchenschiff.de
- ↑ a b Wolfgang B. Sutter, Heimatgeschichte Niederstaufen , at www.vgem-sigmarszell.de
- ↑ Heinrich Kurz: Bavaria's Chamber of Deputies from 1831. 1831, p. 1025 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ↑ a b Church bells and a short description on www.youtube.com
- ↑ Andreas Tacke (ed.), Herbst des Barock , Munich / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-06229-7 , p. 461 and plate 105 on p. 400
- ^ Reichel: Augsburger Tagblatt. Reichel, 1850, p. 1130 ( limited preview in Google book search)
- ^ Haas & Grabherr: Augsburger Postzeitung. Haas & Grabherr, 1850, p. 817 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '2.2 " N , 9 ° 47' 33.7" E