St. Vitus (Reistingen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Vitus in Reistingen , a district of the municipality of Ziertheim in the district of Dillingen an der Donau in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , dates back to the 12th century and was originally built as the monastery church of the Reistingen monastery . Parts of the Romanesque predecessor building are still visible in today's church .
history
Reistingen was first mentioned in 1164. At that time donated Adilbert II., A son of the Count of Kyburg-Dillingen , a Benedictine monastery , which a short time later in a secular convent was transformed. In 1450 the monastery was dissolved and its possessions were incorporated into the Augsburg bishopric , to which it belonged until 1803.
The church was originally built as a three-aisled basilica . When the church was repaired after the damage it had suffered during the Thirty Years War , the two aisles were demolished and the arcades of the central nave were bricked up. These can still be seen today on the north wall. The southern nave wall was demolished in 1846 due to settlement cracks . The demolition material was reused during the reconstruction. At the same time, the tower that originally stood on the south side, on the site of the sacristy built between 1903 and 1906, was demolished , and the current tower was added to the west facade.
The former collegiate church, which also served as a parish church, was initially consecrated to the Apostle Peter . St. Vitus was venerated as a co- patron . In 1760 the pastor of Donaualtheim gave the church a relic of St. Vitus, who is counted among the fourteen helpers in need. During the renovation of the church in 1764, the nave was decorated by Johann Anwander with ceiling paintings depicting St. Vitus as the patron saint of the parish. Since then, St. Vitus has been venerated as the sole patron saint . In the course of later restorations, the ceiling paintings were removed again.
architecture
Exterior construction
The church is made of quarry stone and brickwork . The components from the Romanesque period, the choir and the arcades on the north wall, which originally served as a central nave pillar , stand out due to their ashlar masonry made of carefully hewn limestone .
The apse is divided by five arched panels on pilaster strips with semi -columns and cube capitals . The geometric painting on the walls of the apse window is attributed to the time the church was built.
For the five-storey tower on the west facade, the ashlar and quarry stone from the demolished south tower were reused. The third and fourth floors are designed with a glare field framed by corner pilasters and a round arched frieze . The tower is crowned by a four-sided pointed helmet over triangular gables .
inner space
Today's church has a single nave and extends over four bays . In the east, the nave opens into a slightly drawn-in, square choir with a semicircular apse. The nave and choir have a flat ceiling, the apse is spanned by a semi-dome . In the apse is a narrow, with has round bar decorated archivolts window obtained from the previous Romanesque church.
Furnishing
The oldest wooden sculptures are the figures of St. Constantine and St. Helena , both created by Johann Baptist Libigo around 1680/90. The sculpture of the patron saint, Saint Vitus or Vitus, portrayed as a king, dates from the first half of the 18th century. The figures of Saint Sebastian and Saint Antonius are dated around 1720, the figure of Saint Wendelin around 1780.
The baptismal font , a limestone bowl on a baluster base , dates from 1830.
The frescoes in the apse were made by Franz Nagel in 1954.
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. 832-837.
- 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, pp. 430–431.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 35.1 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 39.2 ″ E