St. Verena (Bad Wurzach)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Verena is an early classicist gallery in Bad Wurzach in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia . It belongs to the parish of St. Verena in the pastoral care unit Bad Wurzach in the dean's office Allgäu-Oberschwaben in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart .
History and architecture
In 1275 a parish is recorded for the first time in this place; from 1422 this is also mentioned by name. The tower base with the date 1487 has been preserved from a previous building from the late Gothic period. The current building was built by the Wurzach master builder and sculptor Johann Jakob Willibald Ruez (1728–1782) together with Christian Jäger in the years 1775–1777 with funds from the not inconsiderable private fortune of the city pastor and doctorate theologian Johann Nepomuk von Kolb (1726–1799) built on the model of the Bad Buchau collegiate church . Externally, the model can only be recognized on the north and south walls with wide, deeply drawn arched windows and the classicistic console frieze on the building. The convexly curved west facade with the central tower, which is essentially older, and a structure with Tuscan pilasters on high plinths still shows a pronounced monumentality in the sense of the Baroque.
The interior of the church is designed as a three-aisled gallery with a wide central nave and a recessed choir. The model of the Bad Buchau collegiate church can also be recognized inside, but here the gallery hall type is more strongly oriented towards the design principles of the late baroque than the model. The central nave is widened considerably at the expense of the side aisles; Rounding off the east ends creates a direct transition to the choir, which is also emphasized by the concave oscillation of the entablature around the central nave and the choir.
Furnishing
The stucco work in the Louis-Seize style was created by Jakob Willibald Ruez. In the nave, a ceiling painting from 1777 by Andreas Brugger is framed over a cove in a wide frame. It shows from east to west the representations of King Solomon , who has the temple floor plan presented to him, further a group of the New Testament characterized by the cross with evangelists, church doctors, donors of orders, martyrs and virgins and finally angels with the church plan, surrounded by secular rulers , partly portraits of the princely family of Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach . In the choir, the veneration of Mary by the various regner stands from 1776 is shown.
The high altar was fitted into the retracted apse of the choir like a picture by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger and equipped with a cafeteria and tabernacle in the shape of the ark . Feichtmayer also created the figure of the unbelieving Thomas in the altar niche, while the laterally arranged figures of Saints Verena and Konrad are by Johann Friedrich Vollmar . The carvings on the Altarmensa, which depict the burning bush and the Lamb of God , were created by Konrad Hegenauer around 1780. The wall niche was provided with figures by Johann Ruez from around 1778, while the figures on the side altars and the baptismal font are from the same artist, but are younger. A crucifix from 1742 and an ecce homo depiction are also works by Johann Ruez. The statues of the twelve apostles and Maria, Joseph and Sebastian were created by Franz Anton Kählin in the years 1740–1746. A group of figures with God the Father and Christ from around 1480/1490, like the colored marble epitaph for Truchsessin Helena von Waldburg († 1515) with a representation of the deceased in prayer position, was taken from the previous building.
The organ is a new building by the Giengener Orgelmanufaktur Gebr. Link from 2004 in a housing by Joseph Höß from 1784 with 36 stops on three manuals and pedal .
Two pulpits face each other symmetrically. The left appears as a sermon pulpit, while the right carries a statue of Christ.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg II: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 52–53.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 17, 2019 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 53 ′ 58" E