Parish church of St. Gallus and Ulrich, Kißlegg

Roman Catholic church in Kißlegg, Germany
Interior of the parish church of St. Gallus and Ulrich in Kißlegg

The Parish Church of St Gallus and Ulrich is a Roman Catholic church in Kißlegg, Germany. It was built in 1734-1738 by Johann Georg Fischer through the conversion of a Gothic church predecessor.[citation needed] The tower, which survives from the original construction, is from the twelfth or thirteenth century.[1] It was extensively renovated between 1974 and 1980. The church contains a Madonna of 1623 (attributed to Hans Zürn the Elder), a baroque pulpit of divination Johann Wilhelm (1745) and numerous tombs of the 16th and 17th century. The church also has a valuable treasure of silver (1741-1755) from the workshop of the Augsburg silversmith Franz Christoph Mäderl.[citation needed]

The sarcophagus of "Saint Clemens"

The church also contains a purported relic of Saint Clemens that is in fact an example of a so-called catacomb saint, a corpse that has been taken from the Roman Catacombs, decorated, given a fictitious name, and presented as the relic of a Roman Catholic saint.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Hitchcock, Henry-Russell (1968). Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany. Phaidon. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-7148-1339-4.
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