St. Peter and Paul (Zell)
The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is located in Zell in Upper Swabia , a district of Bad Grönenbach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building. The church in its current form was built in 1874.
history
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In the first documentary mention in 1447, Bishop Johannes von Augsburg confirmed an indulgence from the parish church of Zell. However, it can be assumed that there was already a church in Zell at the time of the Ottobeurer Abbot Isingrim . During the time of the iconoclasts of the Reformation , Zell was not spared either. In 1531 the Gothic Pietà from the Afra Chapel, which was once located on Hörpolzer-Weg, was to be destroyed. The Pietà escaped destruction because it was hidden in the collegiate monastery in Bad Grönenbach. In 1676 she was brought back to the parish church in Zell in a procession.
After Wolfgang von Pappenheim's death in 1558, three of his sons, Philipp, Wolfgang and Christoph von Pappenheim, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1559 . Philip turned back in Venice and got to know the Reformed Calvinist faith in Switzerland . Philipp von Pappenheim converted this doctrine of faith and introduced it to Grönenbach according to the principle of " cuius regio, eius religio ". This also affected subjects in Zell, as a result of which they refused to pay their "tithe". Due to the refusal, the parish in Zell was no longer able to support its own pastor. Thus, from 1559 to 1595, Zell received pastoral care from the canons of Grönenbach.
The church and its interior furnishings began to fall into disrepair as early as 1658. This is confirmed by a visitation report from 1658. It took almost 100 years before the church was renovated in 1750. As early as 1841, in a report to the royal district court, the pastor described the state of the church as one of the poorest in the diocese. Therefore, Johann Prestele was commissioned to restore the side altars, the pulpit and the baptismal font, as well as the confessional and choir stalls and the church ceiling, which he carried out in 1844. The altar leaves of the side altars with the motifs of Mary and Joseph were painted by Johannes Kaspar in 1850 . Due to the collapse of the church in Weißenhorn on February 22nd, 1859, which claimed eleven lives, the Zeller church was closed by the police. From then on, the Sunday service could only be held in the shed belonging to farmer Johannes Schindele.
In 1858 Josef Bachschmied was pastor of Zell. On August 14th of this year the church administration commissioned Mr. Kernried from Memmingen to work out a draft for a new church building. Seven years later, on October 28, 1865, the new church was blessed. From this point on, the service took place in the church itself. However, the start of construction on the church was delayed by three years due to lengthy negotiations about a subsidy from the Bavarian state. In the end, a grant of 60,000 guilders was approved and Ambros Madlener was commissioned with the new building.
The entire interior and the church tower were taken over from the previous church. The new parish church was consecrated on September 16, 1874 by the Augsburg Bishop Pankratius von Dinkel . Pastor Friedrich Eisenmann had the painting of the church completed in 1909 and a tabernacle built into the high altar. During the Second World War , 1941, the stained glass windows were made. In 1949 Pastor Franz Seidl took over the parish, who found the church again in bad condition (inside and outside). First, the organ, which could no longer be repaired, was replaced in 1958.
The main renovation of the church began in 1964 with the repair of the church tower (cost approx. 20,000 DM). As the rectory in Zell urgently needed to be rebuilt, the renovation of the church was interrupted. Renovation was resumed in 1973, when a ventilation ditch was built around the church to reduce moisture in the masonry. In the following year the church roof was re-covered and the outer walls were sandblasted and renovated. The exterior renovation was completed this year (costs approx. 160,000 DM). The church interior, which was taken over from the previous church in 1874, and the painting work from 1909 were restored by Josef Schugg from Kimratshofen . Finally, in 1978, a new tower clock was installed. The total renovation was completed in 1980 and resulted in total costs of around DM 280,000 .
Building description
The church consists of a single nave nave . There is a coffered wooden ceiling in the nave. At the nave, the confiscated five other closed includes choir at. There is a ribbed vault in the choir . The church tower is on the north side of the choir. The square church tower is covered with a pointed helmet. The corners of the steeple are beveled. The sacristy is located in an extension on the southern choir corner. Access to the church is through a pointed arched door in the sign on the south side.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar comes from Franz Joseph Kaspar and was created in 1840. The altarpiece from around 1850 by Johann Kaspar shows the Mother of God with the two princes of the apostles Peter and Paul . The side altars were made by Johann Georg Prestele in 1844. The altarpieces on the side altars, also by Johann Kaspar, show Maria on the left and St. Joseph .
In the interior of the parish church, motifs from the life of Christ are depicted in six large wall paintings, namely the Annunciation of the Lord , the birth of Christ , the Adoration of the Magi, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ , the Ascension and the Spiritual Mission. The frescoes on the north side were created in 1909 by Joseph Maierle, the frescos on the south side by Joseph Albrechtskirchinger. The crucifixion group contains statues from the 1920s. Depicted are St. Antonius , Notburga and Isidore. The baroque statue of St. John the Baptist is dated to around 1750.
The fallen soldiers of the Franco-German War of 1870/71 and the fallen of the First World War of 1914 to 1918 are commemorated on two stone tablets .
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The cross from Ivo Strigel's workshop that was erected in the parish church was already in the parish church until it was demolished in 1860 and was then taken over in the pastor's yard. The cross had been in Memmingen since 1949 , most recently in the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin and was later returned to the parish church in Zell. After a restoration, the cross has been in the church since 2009. The Pietà under the cross dates from the 16th century.
Memorial plaque 1870/1871
John the Baptist, around 1750 "Ecce Agnus Dei - See the Lamb of God"
Adoration of the Magi
List of pastors in Zell
| No. | from | to | Surname |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1496 | Peter Bög | |
| 2 | 1502 | 1505 | Georg Weishaber |
| 3 | 1513 | ? | Michael Rotenstein from Memmingen |
| 4th | ? | 1515 | Paulus Pfister |
| 5 | 1515 | 1541 | Georg Wiedemann |
| 6th | ? | 1559 | Peter Kollmann |
| 7th | 1559 | 1595 | During this time, the parish of Zell is cared for by the canons of the collegiate monastery in Grönenbach, without anyone being designated by the bishop. The dean of the abbey at that time, Andreas Weiß, created the parish registers in 1585. |
| 8th | 1614 | 1622 | Johann Erhard Wooden Shark |
| 9 | 1622 | 1633 | Adam Anwander |
| 10 | 1633 | ? | Michael Häberle |
| 11 | 1656 | 1657 | Johann Georg Küllin |
| 12 | 1662 | 1664 | Philipp Jakob Ettlinger |
| 13 | 1664 | 1672 | Magnus Franz Egg |
| 14th | 1680 | 1681 | Johannes Weller |
| 15th | 1681 | 1682 | Johannes Gottfried Mayr |
| 16 | 1682 | 1682 | Ignaz Xaver Thadäus Hochstetter |
| 17th | 1682 | 1692 | there was no pastor appointed for Zell |
| 18th | 1692 | 1694 | Christoph Miller |
| 19th | 1694 | 1702 | Johann Michael Schmid |
| 20th | 1703 | 1714 | Franz David Mörsperger |
| 21st | 1714 | 1731 | Franz Josef Selzam |
| 22nd | 1731 | 1757 | Bernhard Hörmann |
| 23 | 1757 | 1781 | Franz Xaver Kaltenhauser |
| 24 | 1781 | 1795 | Johann Georg Mayr |
| 25th | 1795 | 1798 | Leopold Zech |
| 26th | 1798 | 1812 | Josef Anton Epple |
| 27 | 1817 | 1840 | Sebastian Landerer |
| 28 | 1841 | 1864 | Josef Bachschmied |
| 29 | 1865 | 1877 | Sebastian Sauter |
| 30th | 1878 | 1899 | Jakob Kinzelmann |
| 31 | 1899 | 1907 | Longinus Preinig |
| 32 | 1908 | 1949 | Friedrich Eisenmann |
| 33 | 1949 | 1978 | Franz Seidl |
| 34 | 1978 | 1978 | Paul Finkenzeller, parish vicar |
| 35 | 1978 | ? | Stefan Ried |
| 36 | ? | ? | Rainer Remmele |
| 37 | ? | today | Klemens Geiger |
graveyard
Due to the conversion of some of the citizens of Zell to the Reformed (Calvinist) faith, a separate burial place was made available to them in the Zell cemetery in 1657. However, this own burial place was not accepted and burials continued to take place between the graves of the Catholics. When the reformed carpenter Hans Henkel, who died on January 10, 1670, was to find his final resting place in the Catholic part of the cemetery, a dispute broke out between the dean of Zell and the Calvinist preacher von Grönenbach, who did not want to tolerate a burial according to the reformed rite. On January 14, 1670, the deceased was buried in Zell. At the protest of the Catholic dean of Zell at the prince monastery of Kempten, he was exhumed again on the day of the funeral, by order of the prince abbot of Kempten Roman Giel von Gielsberg , and reburied in Herbishofen .
In order to avoid such disputes in the future, the parish auditor made a corresponding request to the deanery in 1717 : From now on the Reformed should be allowed to bury their dead according to the Calvinist rite, if the Catholics at Theinselberg experience the same concession should. The community of Theinselberg was originally also owned by Philipp von Pappenheim, so its citizens had to join the doctrine of Calvinism in 1559 and made up the majority there. Seven Reformed families lived in Zell in 1770.
Mary's Grotto
A Marian grotto has been erected in the cemetery north of the church . This had its origin in 1896, when Pastor Jakob Kinzelmann erected it in the northern entrance of the church after a pilgrimage to Lourdes . When the church was renovated (until 1980) it was moved to the cemetery.
End of the Catholic parish Woringen (1805/1806)
Since there were only a very small number of Catholics in Woringen, the Woringen parish was annexed to the Zell parish. This was communicated on July 29, 1805 to the ordinariate of the Electoral Palatinate Bavarian State Directors of Swabia and Ulm . The demolition of the Catholic Church in Woringen was, against the resistance of the last Woringen pastor, Adalbert Scholl, also promoted by the pastor of Zell Josef Anton Epple, because he needed the building material for the rebuilding of the rectory in Zell.
The demolition of the church was to begin on September 23, 1805. For this purpose, the district judge asked the Woringen pastor Adalbert Scholl to remove the Holy of Holies from the church, which he refused and referred to the lack of permission from the ordinariate. The dispute escalated to such an extent that even Elector Clemens Wenzeslaus of Saxony had to comment on this matter. Finally, on April 8, 1806, the Holy of Holies was removed from the tabernacle in Woringen and the demolition of the church began.
See also
- List of churches with the patronage of St. Peter and Paul
- List of churches and chapels in the Bad Grönenbach administrative community
Web links
literature
- Commemorative publication on the occasion of the renovation, 1980
- Tilmann Breuer: City and District of Memmingen . Ed .: Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959.
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 1140 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-144-43 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ↑ Allgäu Chronicle, Data and Events , Alfred Weitnauer, 1971, pp. 290–291.
Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 57.2 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 19.5 ″ E