St. Stephan (Bonstetten)

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St. Stephan in Bonstetten

The Catholic parish church of St. Stephan in Bonstetten , a municipality in the Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria , is located on Kirchstrasse. The choir and tower of the church are listed .

history

Presumably since the beginning of the 11th century - and thus before the first documentary mention of the place - there was a first sacred building made of wood. It is possible that the square around the church was part of a castle in the 10th century. The wooden church was replaced by a stone church in the second half or towards the end of the 12th century. In 1231 the Benedictine Abbey of St. Ulrich and Afra acquired the right of patronage over Bonstetten from the ministers Adalberto and Sifrid.

Around 1500, the Romanesque choir was demolished and a late Gothic choir was rebuilt, the longitudinal walls of which leaned on the old Romanesque foundations on both sides. In 1604 the old, Romanesque nave was finally demolished and replaced by a new one. The builder was probably Abbot Johannes Merk from the St. Ulrich and Afra Monastery. This is indicated by a stone discovered in 1849 which, in addition to the year 1604, also bears the initials IMA ("Ioannis Merk Abbas").

In 1594 there was a bitter dispute between the pastor Johann Kerler, previously a schoolmaster in the monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra, and the Ulrican bailiff Thomas Demharter about the use and rights of the parish Widdumgarten. In the course of this, Kerler was captured by the abbot and transferred to the episcopal jurisdiction. The trial even called on the papal legate. The pastor has since been shunned by his parish and in 1601 exchanged Bonstetten for another parish.

In 1690 the old rectory was demolished and rebuilt from scratch at the expense of the then pastor Weimann. In the 18th century the choir and the nave were made Baroque. A lightning strike in the summer of 1741 severely damaged the church. In 1777 the church was repaired. The cost was 900 florins. Since then, the church consecration has been celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. After the secularization , the right of presentation fell to the Bavarian sovereign.

Due to dilapidation, the nave was demolished in 1980 and replaced by a new one, longer and wider in plan. The consecration took place on October 17, 1982 by the then Augsburg Bishop Josef Stimpfle . The parish is currently headed by Manfred Lochbrunner .

Furnishing

The two side altar paintings were created by the painter Joseph Kober around 1850/60. On the left they show the care of St. Sebastian and on the right St. Joseph. The high altar sheet represents St. Stephen depicts an angel handing him the martyr's palm. In a niche in the south wall of the choir there is a relief depicting the death of the Virgin from around 1510/20. A new organ was purchased from the Offner organ building workshop in Kissing in 2013.

literature

  • Sankt Stephan in Bonstetten - Festschrift for the church consecration on October 17, 1982, published by Heide Weißhaar-Kiem on behalf of the church foundation

Web links

Commons : Parish Church St. Stephan Bonstetten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Findings from an archaeological rescue excavation as part of the expansion in 1980.
  2. ↑ Michael Kalb: On a journey to medieval Bonstetten. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ Dr Friedrich Oswald, Leo Schaefer, Hans Rudolf Sennhauser, Werner Jacobsen, Central Institute for Art History in Munich: Pre-Romanesque church buildings: Catalog of the monuments to the exit of the Ottonians . Prestel-Verlag, 1990, ISBN 978-3-7913-0961-3 ( google.de [accessed on October 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Anonymous AC02842283: contributions to the history of the bishopric of Augsburg . Kollmann, 1850 ( google.de [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  5. ^ Günter Stauch: The church builders. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria. Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 ( google.de [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk Georg Impler: Zwölfuhrluten: Bonstetten in Swabia . July 21, 2013 ( br.de [accessed October 20, 2019]).
  8. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine: Figure of Mary adorns the pipework. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '23.8 "  N , 10 ° 42' 36.4"  E