Our Lady (Oberrammingen)
Our Lady is a Roman Catholic branch church in the Upper Swabian Rammingen -Oberrammingen in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria .
location
The east- facing church is in the middle of Oberrammingen on the main street. It is surrounded by Kapellenplatz.
history
The current church goes back to a chapel building from the 15th century. The tower was built around 1600, as was the surrounding wall of the eastern part of the chapel. In 1700 the carpenter Johann Bergmüller from Türkheim was active. The first frescoes came from the Türkheim painter Johann Andreas Bergmüller . The building was completely rebuilt and expanded to the west in 1766. The same craftsmen who were involved in the construction of the parish church of St. Magnus in Unterrammingen at the same time , including the master mason Joseph Stiller from Ettringen and Plasterer Andreas Henkel from Mindelheim . Johann Baptist Enderle painted the frescoes . After secularization , the church was initially intended to be demolished. It was acquired by the political community in 1807 and re-used for worship in 1811. Restorations took place in the 1880s and 1955.
Building description
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The church consists of a long room with four axes with a three-sided end. It is covered flat and has a hollow with a hollowed ceiling. The wall structure is achieved by pairs of reddish marbled Corinthian pilasters . The pairs are quite far apart and are connected in the cove by flat arches, indicated in stucco profiles, above the recessed, arched windows. Only one pilaster top is attached to the sides of the choir apex. In the eastern axis there are marbled rectangular doors on both sides, of which the northern one leads to the tower, the southern one to the sacristy with the oratory above. There is a round-arched oratory opening above the sacristy door. The top of the choir has no window. In the west of the nave there is a gallery and an arched door leading into the sign .
The roof is hipped in the west, the sign there from 1766 is transversely rectangular and has basket arch arcades in the west and south and a profiled cornice with a half-hipped roof. The two-storey sacristy with a hipped roof in the south was added in the second half of the 19th century. In the apex of the choir there is an outside niche with a figure.
The tower north of the eastern axis has a two-story, square lower part and a two-story octagon as the upper part. Corner pilaster strips adorned in the upper part enclose narrow fields. The fields of the basement each end in two semicircles on consoles. The upper floor has pairs of arched openings with a round central support, a profiled cornice and a sheet metal onion hood with a weather vane.
Furnishing
The church is richly endowed. The simple marbled choir stalls with tail cheeks with fields were probably created around 1766. The 14 Stations of the Cross in oil on canvas from the second half of the 19th century have carved frames. A painting of the venerable estate, a reliquary with a host , made around 1800 is in the oratory. The pulpit , created around 1766, was removed and has been housed in the Unterrammingen rectory since 1967. It consists of a semi-cylindrical parapet with pilasters and curved fields.
Piece
The stucco of the church from 1766 by Andreas Henkel from Mindelheim is gray and gold on a white background. The main motif are rocailles and palm branches. The three ceiling paintings have curved profile frames surrounded by rocailles. In the cove above the pilaster crowns there are cartouches with tone painting and in the shield arch of the crown there are further rocailles. There are putti on the entablature and angel heads on the sides of the high altar. Above the niche above the door to the tower there is a dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit in front of a halo with an angel's head. The Corinthian capitals are decorated with rocailles. A cartouche between the two eastern ceiling paintings contains the chronostitch DILeCta Mea / Vt aVrora / ConsVrgens with the year 1766.
Frescoes
The frescoes in the church come from the painter Johann Baptist Enderle from Donauwörth . A fresco on the ceiling above the choir depicts the crucifixion of Christ. The main fresco of the nave shows the adoration of the kings, another above the gallery shows the passage to the temple of Mary with the signature Joh. Enderle pinxit . Marian symbols in the haunch are executed in olive-green clay painting.
The southern fresco in the east bears the inscription Pulchra ut luna. cant. 6.9 and shows a moonlit landscape. Another is with Lilium inter Spinas. cant. 22 and shows a lily among thorns. The next inscription reads Portans ramum olivae gen. 8.11 and shows an ark with a dove and an olive branch. The last one on the south side has a tree of life as its content and bears the inscription Lignum vitae. gen. 2.9 . The northern frescoes show a ship in distress with a Mother of God and a star and the inscription Stella maris , a rose growing out of thorns with the inscription Ex spinis sine spina , an arch with signs of the zodiac with the inscription Pertransiit benefaciendo. Act. 10 and an anchor leaning against an altar stone with the inscription In me omnis spes vitae. Ecl. 24 .
Three frescoes on the balustrade show the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, the Adoration of the Shepherds and a depiction of the flight into Egypt.
altar
The red and gray marbled wooden altar with gilded rocailles decor dates from around 1766. The stipes are slightly concave and have beveled corners that bulge like volutes at the top. The classicist tabernacle , created around 1811, is cylindrical with Corinthian columns at the front and volutes at the rear corners. The conclusion is flat arched. A small crucifix in front of the shell niche can be turned inwards using a rotating mechanism. In the second niche is the chalice with the hosts.
The altar structure is concave and has a curved altarpiece . with the scene Mariahilf . Columns on both sides of the picture have narrow concave axes with attached figures of Mary's parents, St. Joachim on the left and St. Anna on the right. They are bordered by curly pilasters . The entablature zone is richly cranked. Putti sit on the volutes of the extract . In the middle a heart of Jesus can be seen in a halo. The cannon board frames with Rocailles carving and embedded mirror shards were created around 1770.
Wooden figures
There are several wooden figures in the church. A crucifix from the middle of the 18th century is attached to the south wall . Below is a painful neo-baroque Virgin Mary . Below the gallery stands a monk from the mid-18th century with a cross on a splendid rocaille console. It could be St. Magnus, the patron saint of the parish church in neighboring Unterrammingen. Saint Joseph on a rocaille cartouche dates from the first quarter of the 18th century. A Jesus with a scourge column on a rocaille cartouche on the north wall dates from the beginning of the 16th century. St. Anthony of Padua from the middle of the 18th century also stands on a rocaille console. The lecture crucifix was made in the second half of the 18th century. The Pietà was probably created around 1500 and changed in the 18th century. Saint Sebastian is neo-baroque, the Madonna is a copy based on a Gothic model. St. John Nepomuk comes from the second quarter of the 18th century. In the sacristy there is a small crucifix and a resurrection savior from the second half of the 18th century, and in the oratory there is an Arma-Christi cross from the 19th century .
Votive pictures
One of the votive pictures under the staircase in a classicistic frame shows a kneeling woman under a Mariahilf picture and was painted on wood around 1800. Another picture painted on wood and labeled EX VOTO 1812 in a classicistic frame shows a woman in a sick bed under a picture of Maria auxiliary . A picture painted on wood around 1800 shows poor souls in purgatory and above the Mariahilf scene. Another picture with a kneeling woman under the Mariahilf scene is painted on canvas and labeled EX VOTO 1810 . Another picture painted on wood shows a young clergyman under the Mariahilf scene and the inscription EX VOTO 1838 .
literature
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Ress (= Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 31 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1971, p. 392-393 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '31.3 " N , 10 ° 35' 10.5" E