St. Stephan (Kissing)
The Catholic parish church of St. Stephan stands on a hill above Altkissing in the Aichach-Friedberg district in Swabia . The former fortified church was in the 17./18. Refurbished in the 19th century and extended to the west in 1723. The church consecrated to the martyr Stephen is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.
Building history
St. Stephan first appears in the documents around 1200. An older church building is located on the nearby Petersberg, the choir of which has been changed. Between 1400 and 1450 there was a new building in Gothic style, some of which can still be seen in the exterior. In 1616 the Jesuits added the two-story sacristy . The building of the church also suffered during the great Kissings fire in 1646, and repairs could not begin until 1658. In 1723 the church was extended to the west and shortly thereafter stuccoed. Today's ceiling paintings were only created in 1973 on the occasion of a restoration.
architecture
The view from the Lechfeld is determined by the high gable roof tower with its stepped gables, the steep roof structure and the choir-like extension from 1723. The brick building is plastered white and looks rather repellent due to the lack of windows in the western part. The elevated position and the high walls surrounding the churchyard are reminiscent of its function as a former fortified church. The attic of the Gothic church was probably designed as a defensive storey, which is indicated by the narrow pass-through opening on the second tower storey and the remnants of the protruding projection of this storey. Another indication is the narrow staircase running inside the western tower wall, which is also found in a similar form in the masonry of medieval keep .
The medieval condition has been preserved most clearly in the choir . A tracery frieze runs around the apse under the eaves , the masonry is supported by four buttresses.
Furnishing
The original altars, which were made in the workshop of the Augsburg master Hans Sautter in 1658/59 , are no longer preserved. Today's high altar was built around 1720/30 and has a painted altar sheet with the depiction of Saint Stephen by Sebastian Staudhamer from 1893, which is flanked by two columns on each side. The two-column side altars were made by Franz de Paula Arnold in 1782. In the middle shrines there are statues of a Madonna and Child from around 1700 and of St. Sebastian from the early 18th century.
The carved figures of the twelve apostles on the nave walls are the work of the Friedberg sculptor Bartholomäus Öberl (also Eberl or Eberle). The figure of the apostle Simon is dated on the reverse with the year 1730.
The carved Anna herself third from around 1700 is said to come from a broken-down St. Anne's Chapel .
The crucifix opposite the pulpit was probably created by Johann Caspar Öberl (also Eberl or Eberle) around 1740 or 1750.
The pulpit from around 1680 is designed in the style of the Landsberg sculptor Lorenz Luidl . The blessing Christ as Salvator mundi stands on the sound cover , the pulpit is decorated with the figures of the four evangelists .
The most important work of art in the parish church is the Romanesque font from the second half of the 12th century, which today stands in the west under the gallery . The high quality work points to models in Northern Italy and is reminiscent of the simultaneous baptismal font of the St. Michael basilica in Altenstadt near Schongau . On the sides, the symbols of the four evangelists are semi-sculptured out of the sandstone . A palmette frieze runs over it around the basin. As a foot since 1868 a Romanesque cube serves capital from the high medieval church. The baptismal font and capital suggest that the original church was of high artistic quality and was located near the large Guelph Castle of Mergenthau .
Remnants of frescoes from the 14th century are hidden under the plaster of the choir . The tower chapel with the partially well-preserved depictions of the crucifixion, the resurrection and the handkerchief of St. Veronica gives an impression of the painting of the Gothic church .
organ
The organ was built in 1951 by the organ builder Josef Zeilhuber for the St. Josepf Church in Augsburg. This instrument was sold to Kissing in 2009 and set up by the Kissing organ builder Andreas Offner in a new brochure and with a new console in St. Stephan. It was re-intoned by Stefan Niebler. The cone store instrument has 38 stops on three manuals and pedal , and 7 transmissions into the pedal. The keyboards and stops are electric.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II (as normal, super and sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P, III / P, quintuple coupling pedal
literature
- Georg Dehio (revised by Bruno Bushart and Georg Paula): Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Art monuments Bavaria III: Swabia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03008-5 , p. 570.
- Paul Grossmann: Churches of the parish Kissing . Schnell & Steiner, Kissing 1987.
- Georg Paula , Christian Bollacher: Aichach-Friedberg district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.87 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-87490-591-6 , p. 316-318 .
- Kissing - past and present . Kissing 1983.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Kissing: St. Stephan. Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ List of monuments for Kissing (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-7-71-142-6 .
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 47.5 " N , 10 ° 59 ′ 22.8" E