St. Stephan (Pfaffenhausen)

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Church of St. Stephan in Pfaffenhausen

The Catholic parish church of St. Stephan in Pfaffenhausen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria is a listed building.

history

Interior view of St. Stephan

In the place of today's church there was a previous building from the Gothic period until the middle of the 18th century. This had to be canceled due to massive structural damage. Of the first church there is still a crack by Simpert Kraemer from 1713, which shows the interior of the church, which was initially Gothic and later baroque. Accordingly, it had five altars (choir altar, altar of St. Anthony, altar of the fourteen helpers in need, altar of the women's brotherhood, cross altar). Under Prince-Bishop Joseph Ignaz Philipp von Hessen-Darmstadt from Augsburg, the seminary for the ordination candidates was moved from Dillingen to Pfaffenhausen. The parish church served the students and secular clergy as a seminary church. The foundation stone for today's church building was laid in autumn 1780. The main inspection was entrusted to Ludwig Rössle, the Bishop of Augsburg, Clemens Wenzeslaus . The first service in the new, unfinished church took place on December 21, 1781. The consecration was carried out on July 12, 1789 by Bishop Clemens Wenzeslaus himself. In 1948 four new bells were cast by Czudnochowsky from Erding. In 1954 the pastor and dean Johann Ev. Sauter the last renovation of the church took place. In the years from 1982 the outside of the church was restored; Heinrich Waibel from Günzburg restored the facade painting.

Building description

The church is a hall building with five window axes in the nave and a rectangular floor plan. The main portal is on the south side of the church. The retracted, slightly elevated choir adjoins the nave in an easterly direction. There are two arched windows on either side of the high altar in the choir. To the north of the choir is the sacristy and on the west side of the nave there is a three-tiered gallery with curved parapets. The uppermost gallery carries the organ . The nave and the choir are divided by gray marbled pilasters . The flat ceiling in the nave is painted with an oval fresco .

Furnishing

High altar with crucifix, the Mother of Sorrows and the Apostle John

The high altar , created in 1783, is flanked by four columns. In the middle there is a crucifix with the Mother of Sorrows and the Apostle John . In the excerpt from the high altar, God the Father is depicted with the dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit . The Jesus monogram is attached above the canopy. To the right and left of the high altar, two angels carry the instruments of suffering, on the left the vinegar sponge and the sweatcloth of Veronica , on the right the lance with which a soldier pierced Jesus' side .

Both side altars are surrounded by free columns and contain colored wooden figures. In the left side altar with the Marian monogram, the Queen of Heaven, Mary, holds the Christ Child in her right arm and carries a scepter in her left hand and a crown in a star wreath on her head. On the right-hand side with the Joseph monogram in the extract, Saint Joseph holds a lily in his hand. In addition, an angel carries a carpenter's hatchet.

A small altar on the south wall of the nave is dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua , who is depicted as a relief chest image with the apparition of the Christ child. A similar altar dedicated to St. John of Nepomuk on the north side bears the relief image of the saint with an angel who puts his finger to his mouth as an indication of the keeper of the confessional secret. Above both altars, the indestructible tongues of the two saints are shown in the extract.

The fresco painter Johann Joseph Anton Huber from Augsburg created the ceiling paintings . The main fresco in the nave is signed Huber August P , FX Zimmermann renov. 1882 . The ceiling paintings of the choir and the nave contain scenes from the life of the church patron St. Stephan. In the choir the speech of the deacon before the council and in the nave the martyr's death is depicted. The stoning of Stephen takes place before the Triune God ( Acts 7.56  EU ). The friends and enemies of the martyr are depicted to the right and left of the picture edge of the ceiling fresco . At the bottom of the painting, Saul guards the stoners' clothes.

The pulpit is attached to the north side wall of the nave. The pulpit bears the symbols of three evangelists : a winged person with a gospel book for Matthew , a lion's head for Mark and a bull's head for Luke . For the fourth Evangelist John there is an eagle on the sound cover. Angels hold the tablets with the ten commandments on the cover. In a triangle above it stands the Hebrew name of God, Yahweh, as a reference to the Holy Trinity. Opposite the pulpit on the south wall is shown Christ being baptized by John .

  • Ceiling painting in the choir. Speech of the deacon before the council

  • Triple west gallery with organ

  • Church stalls with name tags

Web links

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

literature

  • Julius Schöttl, Anton H. Konrad: Pfaffenhausen - Swabian Art Monuments Book 11 . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1985.
  • Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 398-404 .
  • Christian Mazenik, Wolfgang Wallenta, Josef Hölzle: Pfaffenhausen, parish church St. Stephan and seminary chapel St. Ulrich . Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-916-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-187-14 ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  • Julius Schöttl, Anton H. Konrad: Pfaffenhausen - Swabian Art Monuments Book 11 . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1985.
  1. ↑ p. 2
  2. ↑ p. 4
  3. ↑ a b p. 12
  4. ↑ p. 17
  5. ↑ a b c p. 14
  6. ↑ a b c d p. 16

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '14.4 "  N , 10 ° 27' 20.6"  E