St. Vitus (Tafertshofen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Vitus is located in Tafertshofen , a district of Kettershausen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The church is a listed building.
history
The church used to be the summer residence church of the Roggenburg Monastery .
The oldest remaining structural part of the church is the substructure of the church tower and the surrounding walls of the choir from around 1500. The upper part of the church tower was renewed in 1710. The church was extended to the west in 1727. A redesign by Jakob Jehle took place in 1772. In the course of the redesign, the two eastern nave axes were enlarged by side chapels.
Building description
The church is a hall building. There is a flat ceiling above pilasters with a low cove . The flat ceiling also spans the chapel extensions in the north and south. There is a deep gallery on the west side . The little indented choir adjoins the nave with a three-sided end. The choir is slightly off-axis to the south. In the choir there is a basket arched flat barrel. The church tower is on the north side. In the lower area, the tower is square and octagonal above . The church tower is covered with an onion dome .
Furnishing
The fresco above the gallery was created by Konrad Huber in 1801 . The pictures on the underside of the gallery are from 1865, as are the pictures in the transverse arms. Is shown Ecclesia , Maria with a unicorn, and Christ. All other ceiling frescoes were created by Augustin Müller-Warth in 1892 . The martyrdom of St. Vitus is depicted in the choir. The fresco is surrounded by images of the evangelists . The fresco in the nave shows St. Vitus fleeing his father's house with Modestus and Crescentia.
The interior of the church is in Neo-Rococo style and dates from 1892 to 1895. The two side altars and the pulpit are by Georg Saumweber . The font dates from the early 16th century. The Way of the Cross comes from the circle of Konrad Huber from the 19th century. The busts of the 14 helpers in need on metal reliefs are from 1759 by Johann Wilhelm Fleischmann . The life-size crucifix is from the early 16th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 1008-1009 .
- Heinrich Habel: District Illertissen . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard and Adam Horn. tape 27 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1967, p. 198-201 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-221-36 ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 15.5 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 19.8 ″ E