Our Lady in the Moos (Kicklingen)
The Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of Our Lady in the Moos in Kicklingen , a district of Dillingen an der Donau in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , dates back to 1702. Around 1760, the choir was decorated in the Rococo style and sculptures by the Dillingen sculptor Johann Michael Fischer .
location
The church is located on the western edge of the former village in a walled cemetery .
history
In 1387 a chapel in the hamlet of Kirstatt (Kirchstatt) near the parish village of Kicklingen was first mentioned in a document. Two inns next to the house of God are attested to in 1441, which is interpreted as an indication of a pilgrimage, probably to a miraculous image of the miraculous child Jesus . Nothing is known about the origins of the pilgrimage.
In the second half of the 15th century, when Kicklingen and Kirchstatt had grown together, the parish seat was moved from Kicklingen to Kirchstatt and the former branch church became the parish church. Documents from 1410 and 1425 attest to a parish church in Kicklingen consecrated to St. Ulrich , which presumably existed until the Thirty Years' War . In 1485 the parish of Kirchstatt is mentioned for the first time .
From 1425 Kirchstatt belonged to the Carthusian monastery Christgarten . When the monastery joined the Reformation , a Protestant priest was installed in the Kicklingen-Kirchstatt parish in 1558 and the pilgrimage came to a standstill. The miraculous image was sold to the Dominican convent in Dillingen. In 1618 there was again a Catholic priest in the parish and in 1626 the image of grace returned, whereupon the pilgrimage flourished again. The original pilgrimage to the Infant Jesus became a Marian pilgrimage . After the Carthusian monastery was abolished in 1649, Kicklingen-Kirchstatt fell into the possession of the Counts of Oettingen-Oettingen , who sold it to the Carthusians of Buxheim in 1701 . As early as the following year they began building a large pilgrimage church, of which only the choir was completed. In 1718, the Dillinger Bartholomäerinstitut , which owned the church until secularization , became the new owner. During this time the choir received its rococo furnishings and Johann Michael Fischer created most of the sculptures.
In 1884 the tower was raised and during the First World War the nave , which was extended in 1672/73, was replaced by the current nave . The ceiling frescoes were made from 1940 to 1942.
architecture
Exterior construction
In the northern corner of the choir rises the six-storey tower covered with a pointed spire, the foundation of which is made of quarry stone from the late Gothic period. The upper part of the tower is on four sides of twin sound arcades pierced over which a neoroman circular arc fries runs.
The entrance on the north side is provided with a sign . Another entrance is on the south side of the church.
inner space
The single-nave church interior is divided into four axes. In the east, the three include yokes , half-round closed choir of increased by one step to. Its barrel vault is underpinned by belt arches . The walls are structured by stepped pilasters with ionizing capitals . A double gallery , which rests on stucco marble columns and carries the organ , forms the western end .
Stucco and ceiling paintings
The stucco decoration of the choir, which was created in 1702 by Hieronymus Mair from Dillingen, is only preserved on the door walls and the pilaster capitals. The ceiling paintings were created by Josef Albrechskirchinger and Johann Michael Schmid during the Second World War . The central theme is Mary, Queen of Heaven , surrounded by saints.
Furnishing
The main altar is a work by the Dillingen sculptor Johann Michael Fischer from the year 1760. In the middle, Mary is enthroned, who, like the baby Jesus, wears a crown on her lap. The miraculous image of the baby Jesus is attributed to Johann Baptist Libigo, who is said to have created it in 1683 for the previous church. The figure of St. Anne , who stands on the right of the altar, is also attributed to Libigo . On the far left is St. Elisabeth with her son, John the Baptist as a child, to whom the attributes of the lamb and the cross have been added. The two inner figures represent Zacharias (with a smoke barrel) and St. Joseph (with a blooming staff). Six columns with Corinthian capitals carry a canopy on which God the Father sits with a scepter and globe. Behind it is a crucifixion group with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene .
On the left side altar is the figure of a Mother of Sorrows from 1770 by Johann Michael Fischer. The sculpture (from 1944) next to the altar represents St. Dominic with his attribute, a dog with a burning torch in its mouth. The figure of St. Sebastian by Johann Baptist Libigo from 1680 stands above the right side altarpiece. The sculpture of St. Leonhard comes from the first quarter of the 18th century. The sculptures of St. John Nepomuk by St. Franz Xavier were created by Stephan Luidl around 1730.
The pulpit is - like the entire interior of the nave - a baroque imitation and dates from the 20th century. A wooden figure of Archangel Michael from 1750/60 by Johann Michael Fischer was reused for the crowning of the sound cover .
The baptismal font , a limestone shell with an octagonal rim on a square base, is dated to 1702.
Saint Leonhard
Saint Anna
Saint Elizabeth with John the Baptist
archangel Michael
organ
The organ was installed in 1922 by GF Steinmeyer & Co. from Oettingen .
literature
- Xaver Käser: Short guide through the parish and pilgrimage church of Our Lady in the Moos in Kicklingen . no year
- Werner Meyer (arr.): The art monuments of Bavaria. The art monuments of Swabia. Vol. VII. The art monuments of the district of Dillingen on the Danube . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1972, ISBN 3-486-43541-8 , pp. 486-495.
- Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Landkreis Dillingen ad Donau (Ed.), 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 232–236.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our Lady in the Moos Diocese of Augsburg
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 57.1 ″ E