St. Vitus (Nassenbeuren)
St. Vitus is a Catholic parish church in Nassenbeuren near Mindelheim in central Swabia . The patronage is celebrated on June 15th.
history
The church probably comes from a Romanesque or early Gothic choir tower from the 12th to 14th centuries. The present choir was used as a nave until 1739, when it was converted into a choir and slightly shortened. In the same year the hall-like nave was added and a new choir arch was drawn in. The old choir arch was redesigned into a large round arch and the sacristy was set up on the ground floor of the tower. Seven years after the exterior renovations, the church was renovated inside in 2016.
location
The church stands on a hill in the former eastern part of the village just before the protected lime tree avenue that leads to the Maria Schnee pilgrimage church . With the exception of the east side, it borders on new development areas and old buildings. A municipal road leads past the north side to Mattsies . The church stands in the center of the churchyard, which is bordered by a cemetery wall.
Furnishing
The interior of the church is baroque. Around 1600 the church received a new altar. The sources do not reveal how the old altar was designed. The fourteen emergency helpers of today's altar were employed in this altar . The altar structure, dating from 1600, was modernized in 1852 with neo-Romanesque parts in keeping with the spirit of the times. In 1920 an attempt was made to adapt the altar to the baroque shell again. The design comes from the Munich architect Joseph Elsner junior . The altar consists of an altar table with a tabernacle , a central section and a pull-out . In the middle of the antependium is a gold, isosceles cross in a ring. Rays emanate from the center of the cross on all four sides. There are two pictures to the left and right of the cross. The left shows the scene around Abraham with his son Isaac . The standing Abraham is shown in the middle. His son Isaac kneels next to him on a bench that is already burning in the background. Abraham's right hand, holding a knife, is stretched out to the right and points to a ram caught in the bush. Abraham's hand is held back by an angel hovering to his right.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments: Bavaria 3rd Swabia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-422-03116-2 , p. 767-768 .
- Hans Pörnbacher: The churches of Nassenbeuren . Ed .: Parish Nassenbeuren. Dietmar Wagner, Mindelheim 1998, p. 5-13 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Dehio, p. 767
- ^ The churches of Nassenbeuren, page 5
Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 41.1 ″ N , 10 ° 30 ′ 30.3 ″ E