St. Ulrich and Johannes Baptist (Schwenningen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Ulrich and Johannes Baptist in Schwenningen , a parish in the district of Dillingen on the Danube in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , goes back to a late Gothic predecessor church. The present church is a baroque building with facilities in the style of Neo-Renaissance of the late 19th century.
history
A parish was probably established in Schwenningen at the beginning of the 14th century . The first church building followed in the 14./15. Century a late Gothic church, of which the lower floors of the tower have been preserved. From 1543 to 1619 and during the Swedish rule from 1632 to 1634 the church was Protestant and suffered considerable losses of works of art. After 1634 it fell into disrepair and was not repaired until 1684, as the year on the door frame of the sacristy testifies. The church suffered renewed damage during the War of the Spanish Succession , especially in the battles of 1703 and 1704 . In 1726 the church was rebuilt according to the plans of master mason Andreas Moosbrugger . With the stucco was Balthasar Suiter commissioned. On September 13, 1740 was consecrated the new church by Bishop Johann Jakob von Mayr instead. In 1747, Joseph Eberhard from Dillingen, based on a design by Balthasar Suiter, increased the saddle roof tower that had been preserved from the previous church by adding the octagon floors and the double onion hood with lantern . In 1863 the side entrances were walled up and the sign was erected on the west facade . In 1879 the church was given new furnishings in the neo-renaissance style. The last renovation was completed in September 2010.
architecture
Ashlars and quarry stone masonry were used for the lower floors of the tower , otherwise the church is made of brick and plastered .
Exterior construction
The outer facade is structured by pilasters with Tuscan capitals and large arched windows. The west facade has a stepped gable designed with pilaster strips and glare fields , the corners of which end in volutes .
The eight-story tower adjoins the northern choir corner. The six lower floors, which taper upwards in pairs, are square, the two upper floors form an octagon, the corners of which are emphasized by pilaster strips with profiled spars .
inner space
The single-nave nave extends over four bays and is vaulted by a basket-arched barrel with stitch caps . In the east it opens into a retracted square choir with a semicircular apse raised by one step . The choir has a groin vault to which the semi- dome of the apse adjoins. The western end of the nave is formed by a double gallery , with the organ from the mid-18th century on the upper one . The walls are structured by flat pilasters with profiled capitals.
Piece
Vaulted fields, belt arches and gallery balustrades are richly decorated with stucco, which was created by Balthasar Suiter in 1727 and restored again. Ornaments, tendrils and shell consoles alternate with picture cartouches , angel heads and fruit baskets, in gray on white and white on ocher and pink.
Frescoes
The ceiling paintings were executed in 1726 by the court painter Augustin Laur from Dillingen. On the ceiling of the choir, Jesus is depicted as the Good Shepherd , surrounded by the four evangelists . The three medallions in the apse represent the Heart of Jesus in the middle and Saint George and the Archangel Michael on the sides .
The middle scenes in the nave represent: Ascension of Christ , St. Sebastian and St. Ulrich as intercessors for the congregation before the Holy Trinity and the Assumption of Mary .
On the north side, scenes from the life of St. Ulrich are depicted, such as the fish miracle, the battle on the Lechfeld , the raising of a dead person by St. Ulrich or how he celebrates mass.
The scenes on the south side are dedicated to St. Sebastian and show the saint with an angel giving comfort to a woman, his martyrdom and his death.
The representation of St. Cecilia playing on the organ on the upper gallery parapet was added during the interior renovation of 1923/24.
Furnishing
The altars , the pulpit , the confessionals and the choir stalls date from 1879, when the furnishings of the church in the neo-renaissance style were renewed.
The baptismal font , a conch shell from around 1700, has an engraved cross with Christ's monogram on its foot .
The figures of the apostles , like most of the interior fittings, date from 1879. The oldest sculpture is a crucifix with a larger than life Christ, which was created around 1520.
literature
- The art monuments of the district of Dillingen an der Donau , edited by Werner Meyer, in the series: The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. District of Dillingen on the Danube . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 854-862.
- Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities ; in: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Ed. from the district of Dillingen an der Donau, 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, p. 375.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 39 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 11.1 ″ E