St. Ursula (Kempten)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Ursula is a listed building in Ursulasried , a church village and part of Kempten (Allgäu) . It belongs to the parish of St. Magnus, based in the district of Lenzfried , to the parish community of Kempten-St. Ulrich in the Deanery Kempten of the Diocese of Augsburg .
The essentially late-Gothic church was mentioned in 1378, was initially under imperial city patronage , and since 1545 under Stiftkemptic patronage. The nave was expanded in 1683 and 1864. The church is surrounded by a small cemetery.
description
A three-sided chancel with a pointed arched window and a needle cap barrel, in which the ribs have been knocked out, is reminiscent of the old core structure .
The flat-roofed nave with two pointed arch window axes is extended by two window axes of the Emporenjoch from 1864. The church tower in the northern choir corner has a groin vault in the basement, is stepped on the outside against the upper floor, which closes with a profiled cornice, and carries a wooden octagonal bell floor with a pointed helmet.
The furnishings in the chancel date from 1867 - the altars are Aedicula-shaped wooden structures, the altar leaves show the Crucifixion , St. Ursula and the Annunciation . The sheets come from the year 1867 by an A. Morshäuser .
Individual evidence
- ^ Deanery Kempten , overview on the website of the Diocese of Augsburg.
- ^ Alexander Duke of Württemberg: City of Kempten (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.85 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , p. 124 .
- ^ Bernard Kühling: Allgäuer Künstlerlexikon . 1st edition. Kempten 2012, p. 245.
- ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 147.
literature
- Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 473.
- Josef Wahl, Martin Mayr, Johann Hemmerle: The history of the branch church Ursulasried. In: Parish Council Sankt Magnus (Ed.): 350 years parish St. Magnus in Lenzfried. Kempten 1992, Agrar Verlag Allgäu, pp. 16-20.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 7.1 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 7.7 ″ E