St. Vitus (Steinekirch)

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St. Vitus in Steinekirch
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The Catholic parish church of St. Vitus, Modestus and Kreszenzia in Steinekirch , a district of the market town of Zusmarshausen in the Swabian district of Augsburg in Bavaria , essentially dates from the late Gothic period and is a protected architectural monument .

history

The history of the parish of Steinekirch goes back a long way. It is assumed that it goes back to an original parish in the Zusamtal. The patronage of St. Vitus was later replaced by that of St. Sebastian and St. Leonhard expanded. The altar patronage is documented in a missal around 1400. The rulership of Wolfsberg had had the right of patronage since the 15th century . Until 1507 the parish also included the villages of Dinkelscherben and Au. On July 22, 1589, Steinekirch fell to the cathedral chapter of Augsburg, along with the patronage rights .

The lower floors of the tower made of Nagelfluhquadern date from the 13th century. In 1499 a newly built late Gothic church was consecrated, of which the choir is still preserved. In 1760, the Augsburg court architect Ignaz Paulus redesigned the interior in Baroque style, while the northern nave was expanded and the 500-year-old roof structure was integrated. A Mount of Olives chapel was added to the east choir around 1790. Several restorations took place in the 19th and 20th centuries. The last comprehensive one was in 2002.

Together with the parishes of St. Martin in Gabelbach , St. Leonhard in Gabelbachergreut , St. Stephan in Wollbach , St. Michael in Wörleschwang and Maria Immaculata in Zusmarshausen, St. Vitus forms the parish community of Zusmarshausen.

description

The hall building with a Gothic frieze has a retracted choir and a northern tower with an onion dome. A chapel is built to the east of the choir.

inner space

Furnishing

The stucco work is the work of plasterer Franz Xaver Feichtmayr the Elder . Ä. The frescoes with scenes from the life of St. Vitus and the altar leaves were created by the Augsburg artist Joseph Christ. The high altar shows the glory of St. Vitus and the side altars St. Ignatius and the Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew. The ceiling fresco is about the crucifixion scene. The altars and superstructures were made by Dominikus Bergmüller on behalf of the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter in 1760. The figures were mainly created by Johann Michael Fischer.

A late Gothic Madonna may have come from the Wolfsberg castle chapel. The renaissance style pulpit was built around 1670/1680. The red marble font from 1642 bears the inscription: “ HOC BAPTISTERIUM IN HONOREM SVMI DEI… BEATISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE ST. VITI FIERI CVRAVIT M. SEBA (stianus) SVITTER PAROCK… IN STEI (ne) KIRCH Anno 1642 2 Aug (ust) "

  • crucifix

  • Madonna

  • Baptismal font

  • pulpit

  • organ

Bells

The church tower houses three bells from 1513 from the workshop of the bell founder Sebold Schönmacher. The inscription reads: "Ave Maria Gratia Plena Dominus Tecum" . The largest also says: "Master Sebold gos me" .

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Vitus (Steinekirch)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steinekirch: St. Vitus, Modestus u. Kreszentia. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Franz Brunhölzl, Max Spindler: Handbook of Bavarian History . Beck, 1981, ISBN 978-3-406-04845-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria. Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Martin Klonnek: Augsburg Land: Sights of the district of Augsburg . epubli, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-3220-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 22.2 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 41.5"  E