Pfarrkirche St. Georg und Jakobus, Catholic church in Isny im Allgäu, Germany

Pfarrkirche St. Georg und Jakobus is a three-aisled hall church in Isny im Allgäu, built as the church of the Benedictine monastery and attached to the former convent buildings. Massive square pillars carry rounded arches, and the ceiling vaults hold four large framed frescoes in gold borders. The high altar stands as a colonnade of columns and statues, with light wooden benches in rows before it.

A church consecrated in 1042 was destroyed by fires in 1269 and 1284; Brother Heinrich von Brunow rebuilt it and it was consecrated in 1288. After the monastery burned in 1631, it was rebuilt in Baroque style from 1650 to 1666 under masters Giulio and Pietro Barbieri, with the onion dome finished in 1709. Secularisation dissolved the monastery in 1803, and in 1868 the owners gave the church to the town as a parish church.

The church is dedicated to Saint George and Saint James, and the frescoes show the monastery founders beneath an abbot holding a plan of the 1666 rebuilding. The high altar was consecrated in 1760, and the side altars hold relics framed in rocaille ornament.

The church stands at Kirchplatz 2, next to the former monastery converted into a castle, in the northeast of Isny's historic centre. The interior is a rectangular hall, so the colonnaded high altar and the angled side altars only appear to form a rounded choir. The four large nave frescoes each span two bays of the central vessel.

The four large nave frescoes each span two bays of the central vessel, a layout chosen so the painted scenes could be larger and read more clearly from below. The middle fresco shows an abbot floating above the earthly realm holding a monastery plan, pointing to the 1666 rebuild; his features are those of Wolfgang Schmid, who saved the abbey from dissolution as administrator and abbot in the early 17th century. Below him are the monastery founders, above him the church patrons with other saints, and at the top Saint Benedict ascending to the Holy Trinity.