St. Stephan (Burggen)

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Parish Church of St. Stephan
View from the northwest

The Catholic parish church of St. Stephan in Burggen , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau , is a baroque hall church with a Romanesque tower. It belongs to the parish community Auerberg in the diocese of Augsburg . The building is on the list of protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

history

The church was rebuilt in 1680/82 by the Wessobrunn master mason Johann Gannebacher with the exception of the tower. In 1778 the interior was redesigned and refurbished. Renovations were carried out inside in 1954/55 and outside after 1971.

architecture

Exterior construction

The square bell tower, which goes back to the previous Romanesque building, adjoins the nave in the west and forms the northern end of the west facade. The tower is broken through on three sides on the bell floor by triple- coupled sound arcades . The high pointed helmet comes from later times. The crypt or baptistery, which is covered by a pent roof, is built on the north side of the tower , and the entrance to the church is integrated in a sign next to it. The entire west side of the church is wood shingled .

Choir

inner space

inside view

The church is a hall building with a strongly drawn-in, three-sided closed choir . The wide nave with a flat ceiling and stitch caps in the high cove is structured by flat pilasters with Ionic capitals and high entablature pieces.

The square in plan Choir is of a flat Pendentif dome arched. The western end of the nave is formed by a double gallery , the depth of which is significantly reduced in its northern half by the installed tower. The organ is built into the upper gallery . The rectangular crypt or baptistery is covered by a barrel cap.

Nave fresco

Stucco decor, ceiling and gallery paintings

Stucco ceiling of the crypt chapel

The heavy stucco decor of the crypt chapel was created in the course of the new baroque building of the church around 1680. He is attributed to Caspar Feichtmayr , one of the co-founders of the Wessobrunn School.

The ceiling frescoes in the choir and nave are surrounded by a painted stucco imitation and date from the time the church was redesigned in 1778/79, as can be seen from the chronogram above the choir arch . They were carried out by Franz Xaver Bernhard from Eggenthal .

The dome fresco in the choir shows a depiction of the Last Supper above an attic in illusionistic architectural painting . The four evangelists are depicted on the spandrels in grisaille painting . The ceiling fresco of the nave shows the defense speech of St. Stephen in front of an architectural prospectus. The painting bears the signature: "Franc Xaveri Bernhard de Eggenthall pinxit 1778" (Franz Xaver Bernhard from Eggenthal painted it in 1778). The scenes from the life of the patron saint in the spandrels are executed as grisaille like the pictures of the gallery balustrades.

  • Dome fresco and chronogram on the choir arch

  • Frescoes in the nave

  • Signature on the nave fresco

  • Double gallery with grisaille

Furnishing

pulpit
  • The high altar was created in 1732/33 by Paul Pfeiffer from Bernbeuren . In the center of the altar you can see the figure of St. Stephen kneeling in front of the high priest , which dates from around 1680/81 and is attributed to Johann Pöllandt . The other sculptures were made by Anton Sturm from Füssen and depict Mary as intercessor in the altar extract and the apostles Peter and Paul to the side.
  • To the side of the high altar are the sculptures of the Augsburg diocese patrons, Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra , also works by Anton Sturm from around 1730.
  • On the choir stalls from the years 1730/31 by Paul Pfeiffer small figures of the church fathers are placed at about the same time , on the left Pope Gregory the Great with tiara, Pope's cross and dove in his hand and St. Augustine with the bishop's staff and the flaming heart , on the right side St. Jerome and St. Ambrose .
  • Like the high altar, the side altars were created by Paul Pfeiffer and Anton Sturm. The northern altar from 1736 is decorated with sculptures of Immaculata , the plague saints Rochus and Sebastian and in the extract with the figure of St. Florian , the southern with the sculptures of Saint Joseph , Saint Barbara and St. Agatha , and in the extract mt the figure of Saint Isidore .
  • The crucifix and Our Lady of Sorrows on the left choir wall, like the Pietà on the right choir wall, are dated to around 1730.
  • The pulpit from the years 1699/1700 was bought from the parish church of Schongau in 1732 , the small sculptures possibly come from the vicinity of the Landsberg Luidl workshop, the Archangel Michael on the sound cover was added in 1928.

  • North side altar

  • South side altar

  • Crucifix and mater dolorosa

  • Pulpit

Organ loft

organ

The organ is a work by the Schmid organ building company from 1996 with 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

Peal

The ringing with five bells was created in 1989 by the Perner bell foundry .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Stephan (Burggen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burggen: St. Stephan Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Burggen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-90-118-10 .
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The bells of the parish church St. Stephan on YouTube. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 31.4 "  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 4.9"  E