St. Sebastian (Sankt Sebastian)
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St. Sebastian is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage chapel in the Upper Swabian town of Sankt Sebastian , a suburb of Kammlach .
history
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The church was built on an old plague cemetery in 1635. It was completed in the spring of 1636. The consecration took place on May 1, 1636. The chapel used to be surrounded by an oak forest and it was popularly called St. Sebastian im Eichwald . A hermit lived by the church until 1729 . The chapel was probably rebuilt in the early 18th century. During the battle of Oberkammlach in 1796, French republican troops devastated the chapel. In the following two years the church was renovated. The turret was renewed in 1858. In the years 1884, 1919/20, 1939/40 and 1966 (exterior) renovations took place again.
Building description
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The flat-roofed hall has three axes with a semicircular end . The inner walls are structured with pilaster strips arranged axially . In the west corners they are narrow and kinked. The semicircular end is also divided into three axes. A cornice closes the pilaster strips on the sides of the crown axis. In the inclined axes and the two eastern nave axes there are round-arched, recessed windows. In the western part of the chapel there is a fielded wood gallery . The west door is arched . The outside of the chapel is structured by pilaster strips that meet at the western corners. Above it is a short, profiled and cranked cornice and a thin cornice on the west gable. A sheet metal roof turret on the west gable protrudes on profiles and has a square base and an octagonal upper floor with arched openings . A profiled cornice is attached to the main sides.
Furnishing
The neo-baroque ceiling paintings show Saint Sebastian in the large oval field and Marian symbols in yellow tone painting in the diagonals. The oval field was painted in 1951 by Ludwig Dreyer from Ottobeuren in Upper Swabia , the Marian symbols, a rose, a morning star, a tower and an ark are from 1947. The Eternal Light was created in the middle of the 18th century as a lively Rococo work. The pulpit made of marbled wood was created in the period of historicism in the second half of the 19th century. The basket is polygonal with evangelists painted on wood in the arched panels. The chairs, created around 1700 and mainly made of softwood, have tail cheeks with spiral acanthus carving and angel heads made of oak on the front cheeks.
The two cupboards flanking the altar are marked 1798. They have flat tail gables and are adorned with rich folk painting. The two door panels of the left cabinet are painted with the hearts of Jesus and Mary, the door panels of the right cabinet bear a Jesus and Mary monogram. In the popular lectern from the 18th century an inlay forms the Jesus monogram. Saint John Nepomuk and Saint Magnus were created around 1720 from the painted wooden figures in the chapel. Saint Sebastian probably dates from the middle of the 18th century. A lecture crucifix was made in the second half of the 18th century.
altar
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The pink and gray marbled wooden altar was created around 1710/1720. The stipes are box-shaped, the polygonal tabernacle is decorated with corner pillars and a flat dome. In the central axis there is a wrought iron grid in spiral shapes. Two statues in the two shell niches of the oblique axes each carry a book. A baby Jesus from Prague stands on the tabernacle . The altarpiece depicting Saint Sebastian as intercessor for the poor souls closes with a flat curve. On either side there are three winding Corinthian columns, of which the middle ones are staggered. The cornice is richly cranked. Next to the outer pillars is openwork acanthus leaves with angel heads. A heart of Jesus in the altar extract is flanked by four angel heads. The sloping volutes have flower pendants and an angel's head at the top.
painting
Among the paintings in the church is a half- length Ecce Homo from the 17th century. A mother of God, also as a half-length figure, is depicted in the image of grace and dates from the 18th to 19th centuries. Other half-figures are a Saint Magnus from the 18th century and a Mater Dolorosa from the mid-18th century. The painted on wood of plague Rochus and Sebastian are from the first half of the 18th century and are Bandelwerk taken -Schnitzrahmen.
Votive pictures
Some of the stately stock of votive pictures is of high artistic quality. Most of them are oil paintings on canvas. The easternmost picture on the north side is about one meter high and curved flat. It shows the chapel, in front of which the parishioners stand in line. Cattle can be seen in the background. Above is the plague saint Sebastian. The inscription on a banner at the lower edge of the picture reads: To honor S. Sebastian, from the union of the two communities to kamlach / bey the danger of self futzes in 1740. In small print it can be read: Ruinirt bei der franzosenschlak 1796 and. .. been killed. The next picture is about half a meter high and bears the inscription: EX VOTO 1..6 . The year cannot be deciphered, but the picture probably dates from the middle of the 18th century. In the lower part of the picture a kneeling family is depicted, cattle in the background, the chapel in the middle, and the Virgin Mary between Saint Sebastian and Saint Wendelin above. The third picture is about a meter high and bears the inscription on the left: Anno 1700 a pestilent addiction tore under Kamlach under the / Vich, which is why georg hörnagel baur there, a 2-year-old / stürlein already slumped there, and fell as soon as possible but he / it sacrificed it to the holy Sebastiano alhir, and completely given it, / the same instantly got up again, fresh and healthy / it went away. Hence, God has ordained this Daffel to the almighty of his future / Mother Maria and Saint Sebastiano to special honor and / thanksgiving to Georg Hörtnagel. / REV. Ao. 1744 . This picture is a high quality work as a votive tablet. In the right foreground is a farmer with a spade in conversation with an elegantly dressed man, in the middle a calf and the chapel. St. Sebastian fills the upper part with an angel on clouds.
Votive picture
Votive picture re. with 1735
Votive picture
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The fourth picture is about three feet high. It is drawn in above concave approaches and closed in a round arch. It's with Ao. Inscribed 1755 . In the foreground there are five farmers with their cattle, in the background a procession to the chapel. Above is Saint Sebastian as an intercessor before Christ. The fifth picture on the north wall is about half a meter high and shows a kneeling family and a horse in front of the chapel. Above, Saint Sebastian is depicted on clouds. The inscription reads: Anno 1723 the 6th of augusty I got Michael anwander the old and Maria anwanderin to St. Sebastian in Under-Kamlach because I show a big accident with a horse. khein kreizer woldt daruor give, with name / Michael anwander, the dick, with a holy mess and a walfarth gang sambt / a praise daffel betrothed was immediately helped, god and his holiest mother / Maria and the holiest Sebastian in the aüchwald sey it thanks said before grace. The sixth picture on wood is from the 18th century. It shows cattle with a martyred Saint Sebastian pictured above and the chapel on the right. The seventh picture is also painted on wood and shows a kneeling man in the chapel on the left, the chapel on the right and the Virgin and Saint Sebastian above it. The inscription reads: Praise be to God in his holy place. Because I was freed from a disease through his / intercession / 1833 .
Votive picture re. with 1755
Votive picture re. with 1723
Votive picture
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The easternmost picture on the south side, more than a meter high, is drawn in over concave approaches and has a rounded end. The inscription reads: To the greater honor of God Vndt / of H. Sebastian has 1746 / an honorary congregation underkamblach / in aldasiger vüh seucht this table albero . Cattle can be seen in the lower part of the picture, in the middle the kneeling community in the village square and above St. Sebastian. The next picture shows a kneeling family and their cattle, in the middle the chapel and above St. Sebastian. The inscription of this picture reads: Anno 1727 Verlobt frantz / hertnagen Vnd Ursula hertnaglen / in Vnderkamlach Albero Mitt / dißer daffel Has been helped them after / what they loved . The next picture is titled with the words EX VOTO 1732 . Below is a cow and a horse, above St. Sebastian and on the left the chapel. The next picture on wood shows a couple kneeling on either side of a cow. Above on the left the Virgin Mary is depicted and on the right St. Sebastian. The inscription reads: ex voto 1854 by Adam Ostler von Mattsies . The last picture is from the 18th or 19th century. It has no inscription, shows cattle and St. Sebastian in the upper right corner.
Votive picture re. with 1746
Votive picture re. with 1727
Votive picture re. with 1732
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Epitaphs
In the church there are epitaphs made of painted wooden panels, the first of which was made for Johannes Hanzel, also known as Haineler, during his lifetime in 1632. Hanzel was pastor of Kammlach and died of the plague in 1633. The priest is shown kneeling in front of the crucified Savior. A coat of arms is depicted in the lower right corner. Above and below there are numerous banners with inscriptions. The inscription on the lower edge, FAMM 1755 , probably comes from a renovation of the panel.
In the second epitaph, Saint Antonius Eremita and Paulus Eremita are in conversation. The damaged panel was probably intended for the last hermit Joseph Ernst, who died in 1729.
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literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 499-501 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 17 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ E