St. Peter and Paul (Obermumpf)
The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a Christian Catholic church building in Obermumpf in the canton of Aargau . It stands on the southern edge of the village next to the Christian Catholic rectory . The late Baroque building, consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul , was built in 1738 as a Roman Catholic parish church and passed to the Christ Catholics in 1898 as a result of the Kulturkampf .
history
In the 10th or 11th century the church was founded as the foundation of the Säckingen monastery . After excavations in 1956, it was assumed that parts of the foundation walls came from a Roman estate. However, further excavations in 1993 refuted this theory. Presumably, as in Mumpf und Stein, it was a Sackingian church . It was first mentioned in a document in 1302. The pastors lived in Säckingen until the rectory was built at the end of the 15th century . 1803 went Kollatur over to the Canton of Aargau. As a result of the Kulturkampf there was a split in the parish and the Christian Catholics took over the parish church. The Roman Catholics built an emergency church in 1893, which gave way to a modern new building in 1962.
The oldest part that has survived is the church tower built in 1494 . At that time the vestibule and part of the medieval nave were also replaced . Since the church was in a dilapidated condition in the 1730s, it was rebuilt, leaving the tower standing and turning the complex 90 degrees to the southeast due to lack of space. The foundation stone was laid on May 20, 1738. Caspar Stiller from Säckingen is believed to be the master builder. In 1750, the Bishop of Basel consecrated the church, the completion of the furnishings took until 1772. In 1830 the ossuary next to the church tower was demolished. The interior was renovated in 1860, the exterior in 1869, and a total renovation from 1902 to 1905. The church tower had to be renovated between 1966 and 1968. Another complete renovation was carried out in 2002/03.
Building
The late baroque hall church faces southeast on a terrace at the foot of the slope of the Zuzgerberg. The nave and the altar house are equally wide and present themselves as a closed structure with their round arched windows with red frames and the hipped roof over the apex of the choir . The roughly 20 meter high church tower on the slope side of the choir was originally the front tower of the previous building. It is divided horizontally by two coffin cornices and also has a gable roof. The bell was made in 1967 by the Aarau foundry H. Rüetschi , and the oldest bell from 1673 was integrated into it. The sacristy attached to the opposite side of the valley has a small hipped roof.
The interior consists of a rectangular hall and a choir, which is separated by a simple round triumphal arch. Flat stucco ceilings with ornaments in the Regency style span both parts of the room ; the stucco profiles are blue-gray, the surfaces old pink and ocher yellow (until 1760 everything was painted white). The gallery built in 1772 above the entrance area rests on marbled columns and is decorated with stucco garlands. A marbled and sparingly gilded wooden pulpit is attached to the west wall . The wooden high altar is designed as a double column retable, also marbled and provided with sparing gilding. The main picture, created by F. I. Triendle in 1749, depicts a scene of the Annunciation. The shell-crowned niches of the tabernacle contain statuettes of Saints John Nepomuk and Francis Xavier .
literature
- Edith Hunziker, Peter Hoegger: The art monuments of the canton of Aargau . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Volume IX, Rheinfelden District, 2011, ISBN 978-3-906131-94-8 , pp. 370-376 .
Web links
- Parish of Obermumpf-Wallbach
- St. Peter and Paul (Obermumpf) in the inventory of historical monuments in the canton of Aargau
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '26.7 " N , 7 ° 54' 9.6" E ; CH1903: six hundred thirty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty / 263809