St. Sebastian (Stetten)
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The Roman Catholic Expositurkirche St. Sebastian is located in Stetten in the Unterallgäu district ( Bavaria ). The listed church building was mainly built in the 17th or 18th century. The church bears the patronage of St. Sebastian, whose feast day is January 20th.
history
The church was formerly a branch church of the Oberauerbach parish , which in turn was incorporated into the Rottenbuch monastery . The financial resources for the construction of the first St. Sebastian chapel , the foundation stone of which was laid in 1483, came from the Rottenbuch monastery. The late Gothic church tower of the existing church building dates from this time. The rest of the church was built in the late 17th or early 18th century. The groin vault in the choir was changed later (18th or 19th century) in the style of a needle cap barrel, and the nave was redesigned and expanded several times. A cost estimate for construction work on the church has been preserved from 1828. In 1855 the church was embellished and repainted, and the altars were gilded and decorated with new paintings.
The exposition was built in 1861 . More extensive changes were made in 1878. This year the church was extended to the west, the sacristy and the portico were added and the entrance was moved to the west side.
During a restoration in 1886, a new high altar with a four-column ciborium and a new pulpit were created by carpenter Xaver Vogg from Mindelheim. The high altar and the pulpit were made by Franz Xaver Holzbauer, also from Mindelheim.
In 1922/23, as part of an extensive renovation under the direction of the Augsburg architect Karl Kurz, the altar from 1886 was removed and the niche in the apex of the choir was exposed. A terracotta figure of St. Sebastian created by Carl Bauer from Munich was placed in this niche. New ceiling paintings with expressionistic echoes by Josef Bergmann from Munich also date from this period.
Further renovations were carried out in 1946/47 by the architect Josef Ruf from Mindelheim, with the nave being converted into a basilica and extended to the west. A new wooden ceiling was put in under the nave ceiling , the fields of which are decorated with paintings by Josef Wiedenmann from Mindelheim. The paintings on the ceiling of the choir as well as the pulpit are by Willibald Diernhöfer from Munich . Both the figure of St. Sebastian on the high altar and that of St. Wendelin on the right side altar come from Franz Hoser from Günzburg .
Organs
The organ installed by Ottmar Sauter from Mindelheim in 1858 on the newly built gallery was replaced in 1886 by Steinmeyer from Oettingen. The Hindelang brothers from Ebenhofen made the organ from 1958.
Building description
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The nave of the church has been completely modernized. Plans from the parish archives from 1874 still show a nave with four window axes and arched windows. The portal was then on the south side and a dungeon niche in the sign. The core of the central nave, which was extended in 1878, has old building fabric. In 1946/47 this was connected to the two side aisles, which are half-height compared to the nave. Arched windows are in the upper aisle of the central nave, while the side aisles have circular windows. The gallery is built on the inside of the west wall, behind it there is a newly constructed gallery , which is connected to the central nave by three arcades. To the nave joins through the re-entrant, semicircular closed chancel the retracted choir, with five-eighths circuit to. At the top of the choir there is a baroque shell niche that contains a modern figure of St. Sebastian. The rectangular doors on both sides lead to the church tower in the north and the sacristy in the south.
A profiled Traufgesims with cornice is located outside of the chorus, as well at the central aisle of the nave. The central nave, which is covered with a gable roof, is joined on both sides by the half-height side aisles with a monopitch roof. The late Gothic church tower rises on the north side of the choir. This has a groin vault on the ground floor . The square church tower has corner pilasters from the second floor . The floors are structured by overlapping arched friezes. Coupled pointed arch arcades are on the top floor. The church tower is covered with a transverse gable roof. There are clock faces on both gable sides of the church tower. For this reason, the vertical, wedge-shaped central post is no longer continuous. The two-storey sacristy with a pent roof was built on the south side of the choir in 1878 .
Furnishing
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The interior of the church is of modern origin. The stucco decor on the choir vault dates from 1922/1923. The fresco depicting the Trinity was created by W. Diernhöfer in 1945/46, as were the six small gussets with depictions of angels in green clay painting. The pictures of the nave ceiling are by J. Wiedenmann and W. Diernhöfer and show scenes from the life of St. Sebastian.
On the left side altar there is a framed figure of Our Lady from around 1480. Furthermore, there is a crucifix from around 1520 in the church , as well as a Mater Dolorosa from the middle of the 18th century. The lecture crucifix also dates from the middle of the 18th century, as does the figure of St. Joseph and the dungeon savior. After the renovation, the latter is located in a new niche in the western part of the church.
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 997 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 434-436 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-199-1
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 25.3 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 32.7 ″ E