Our Lady of the Cape

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Our Lady of the Cape 2012

Our Lady on the Kapf is located in Aufhofen, a district of Schemmerhofen in the Biberach district in Upper Swabia . It is a church of the pastoral care unit Schemmerhofen and monastery church of the community of the Oblates of the Immaculate Virgin Mary (OMI), which has been resident there since 2005 . Her second patronage is dedicated to Saint Michael . It is therefore also called St. Michael and the Aufhofener Käppele .

history

inside view

Schemmerhofen is located on the federal highway 465 between Biberach an der Riss and Ehingen an der Donau . The originally Gothic church was built at the beginning of the 15th century. A pilgrimage to the Käppele developed early on . In 1418, Pope Martin V issued a letter of indulgence in favor of the pilgrims. In a document dated February 14, 1484, the then responsible Bishop of Constance confirmed the pilgrimage to the chaplaincy . The pilgrimage church was expanded between 1736 and 1738 to become today's hall church with a wooden ceiling. On May 8, 1827, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg approved the elevation of the chaplaincy to a parish . Until 1919 the King of Württemberg exercised the right of patronage alternately with the Bishop of Rottenburg . The Gothic bell tower from 1480 was 19.5 meters high. In 1958 it was increased by two floors. In the course of this, the original tower end was reconstructed.

On Sunday, February 4, 2012, the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg Winfried Kretschmann gave a sermon on fasting in the Käppele .

Furnishing

The furnishings include a Madonna from 1460 from the school around Hans Multscher and an 80 centimeter high Baroque Pietà from 1726. The panel paintings from 1742 were painted by Max Selg and have the life of Saint Mary as their theme. Two bells date from 1504 and 1511, the remaining three from 1822 and 1958.

organ

Prospectus of the organ

The church only received an organ in 1929 . Reiser Orgelbau built a new work with a cone store as Opus 99 behind a historic organ case . The five-axis prospectus by an unknown master was designed around 1735 to 1740 in the Rococo style. The origin of the case is unclear; originally the organ had eight stops on one manual. The high round central tower is followed by two flat fields, which are flanked by round side towers. Gilded carvings with rocailles close off the pipe fields at the top and connect the towers, while tendrils and latticework crown the side towers and decorate both sides in the form of "ears". When the organ was installed, the lower case was shortened and set into the floor, and the crown of the central tower was removed in order to fit the instrument into the gallery. The organ has 20 stops on two manuals and pedal and has a romantic disposition .

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Large-covered 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Salizional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
II Manual C – f 3
Violin principal 8th'
Trumpet 8th'
Viola damour 8th'
Night horn 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Voxcelest 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
tremolo
Pedal C – d 1
Violon bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Subtle bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: I / P, II / P
    • Super octave coupling: I / I, II / I
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : Fixed combinations (p, mf, f, tutti, hand register down, reeds down, crescendo down, pedal piano down), trigger, crescendo roller

literature

  • Dehio , Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, p. 19.
  • Reinhard Wortmann: A late Gothic church tower version in the Oberland. Pilgrimage church in Aufhofen, Gde.Schemmerhofen, Kr.Biberach . In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 19th year 1990, issue 3, p. 108f. ( PDF )

Web links

Commons : Our Lady of the Cape  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SE Schemmerhofen: Description of the Schemmerhofen pilgrimage site, in particular the pilgrimage church of our dear Lady on the Kapf, ("Aufhofener Käppele") ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 11, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-schemmerhofen.de
  2. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Kretschmann convinces as a fasting preacher from March 5, 2012, viewed on March 9, 2012.

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 1.5 ″  E