St. Stephanus (Köngetried)
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The Catholic parish church of St. Stephanus is located in Köngetried, a district of Apfeltrach in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building. The place Kunigunderiet (Köngetried) is mentioned as early as 1155 . The church set was sold on February 27, 1432 by Pentelin von Heimenhofen to the Heiliggeistspital in Kaufbeuren . Since then, the city council of Kaufbeuren has exercised the right of patronage and sold it to Georg II von Frundsberg in 1575. As a result of impoverishment and the plague, the parish was temporarily unoccupied in the 15th century until 1471.
location
The church building is located in the eastern part of Köngetried on the sloping side of the village on the western slope of the Westernachtal. The cemetery is laid out around the church. The cemetery fortifications were removed in 1750.
history
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The oldest part of the church is the tower substructure. This probably dates from the 14th century. All other building components such as the upper floors of the tower, the choir and the core of the nave date from the last quarter of the 15th century. The ribs of the late Gothic choir vault were removed in 1632. The church was rebuilt and extended to the west in 1750. The church tower was covered with a pointed helmet in 1862, replacing the previous saddle roof. In 1880 the church was restored. In this context, the baroque interior was replaced by a neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic one . The gallery as well as the sign also date from this time. The frescoes in the choir were exposed during the renovation in 1929. During a further renovation in 1957, the 19th century furnishings were removed or simplified.
Building description
The nave, equipped with a flat ceiling , with four window axes with arched windows, connects to the retracted choir. The floor of the nave rises slightly to the west. On the west side is the gallery, created in the 19th century, which overlaps the windows. The gallery is supported by four pillars, with the two front pillars made of wood being renewed. The two iron columns are still original. In the choir, which is closed on three sides, there is a needle cap barrel over baroque, curved consoles. The vaulting of the crown axis was removed in the 18th century so that the vault intersects with the wall as a barrel.
The outer facade of the choir is supported by stepped buttresses . The buttresses are tiered by a monopitch roof. A double-cantilevered eaves cornice runs around the nave. On the white side there is a sign with rectangular doors on the north and south sides. Access to the pulpit is through an attachment on the north side of the nave. The square church tower is installed in the northern corner of the choir . This is clearly visible, inclined about 1.10 m to the north and 0.5 m to the east. The original tower substructure is not structured and made of tuff , river pebbles and bricks. There is a groin vault on the ground floor of the church tower . The late Gothic upper floors are made of bricks and have corner pilaster strips. These floors are divided into three floors by cornices, with the exception of the west side. Two ogival sound openings are located on the top floor of the tower. Opposite the church tower on the south side is the two-storey sacristy with a pent roof. Rectangular windows and an arched door are used in the sacristy.
Furnishing
Altars
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Originally there were three neo-Romanesque altars from around 1880 in the church, but they were removed in 1951/1952. The box-shaped stipes of the new altars are bricked. On the high altar is a gilded tabernacle in the style of the 1920s. The tabernacle is crowned with the Lamb of God on the book with the seven seals. On the right side altar there are two glazed reliquaries from around 1720. The two reliquaries with tail gables are made of wood and framed. The four gilded wooden candlesticks in the main altar date from the first half of the 18th century. The high altar picture shows the Rosary Queen as intercessor before Jesus . In the lower area of the picture on the left is St. Dominic and on the right St. To see Catherine of Siena . It dates from the first half of the 18th century. Above the left side altar there is a painting depicting the Assumption of the Virgin . It was created by Christoph Thomas Scheffler in the middle of the 18th century. The painting was acquired and restored in Regensburg in 1950. The former picture of the high altar by Andreas Merkle comes from the second half of the 19th century and shows the stoning of St. Stephen. It is with A. Merkle v. Called mutton .
Frescoes
The frescoes in the choir date from around 1720/1730 and depict the Mother of God with Child Jesus at the feet , Saint Stephen , Sebastian and Johann Nepomuk . Above this scene, God the Father is shown. The central fresco is surrounded by a painted tail frame decorated with acanthus. The four fields in the spandrels represent the four evangelists . The neo-baroque fresco on the nave ceiling dates from 1929 and 1931 and was created by Gustav Kuttruff. The G (eorg) Kuttruff inv. Et. pinx. The fresco marked in 1929 shows the speech of St. Stephen before the council.
There are eight neo-baroque paintings on the gallery parapet. These alternate symbols - in purple clay painting - and saints. All paintings contain inscriptions.
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| No. | inscription | description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Name christ | Two putti flank the Christ monogram. It is marked G. Kuttruff pinx. 1931. |
| 2 | Holy Mother of Christ | |
| 3 | Christ our light | |
| 4th | St. Othmar | |
| 5 | St. Leonhard | |
| 6th | Christ our hope | Two putti hold an anchor. |
| 7th | St. Nicholas | |
| 8th | Christ our peace | Noah's Ark is shown with a flying dove. |
characters
In the church there are a number of wooden figures. The high altar is flanked by the neo-Gothic figures of St. Isidore and St. Notburga . The figure of Mary on clouds comes from around 1720/1730 . On the chancel arch is a statue of St. Stephen from the middle of the 18th century. The statuette of St. Sebastian comes from the 19th century. There are also other neo-Gothic and modern figures in the church.
Funerary monuments
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In the sign of the church there is a sandstone relief from 1600. The relief without an inscription shows a kneeling priest in front of an altar with a crucifix. At the apex of the choir in the outer facade is the grave slab made of Solnhofen slab for pastor Gebhard Schmidt († 1825). In the southern inclined axis of the choir, the grave slab of pastor Johann Georg Böck († 1767) is made of sandstone. The grave slab is already very weathered. Another grave slab is on the east side of the sacristy. This is for Pastor Andreas Zettler (Zöttler) († 1740). The oval Solnhofen plate contains a long Antiqua inscription with chronograms .
Mount of Olives scene, painted on wood, late 19th century
Relics on the side altar
Frescoes in the choir from 1720/1730
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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. 606 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 195-197 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-113-16 ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, page 606
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 49.6 ″ N , 10 ° 27 ′ 23.2 ″ E