Pfarrkirche St. Katharina, Catholic parish church in Wolfegg, Germany.
Pfarrkirche St. Katharina is a Baroque parish church featuring a rectangular nave with a semi-circular apse and four window bays marked by alternating pilasters and round-arched windows. The building displays typical Baroque proportions and symmetry throughout its exterior walls.
Construction of the church took place between 1733 and 1742 under architect Johann Georg Fischer's supervision. The neo-Baroque bell tower was added much later, in 1906, based on designs by Joseph Cades.
The ceiling painting in the nave shows the 1487 duel between Count Johannes von Sonnenberg and the knight Antonio Maria d'Aragonia di San Severino, with Catherine appearing in a cloud and deciding the fight in Sonnenberg's favour. In the choir, scenes from the lives of Catherine and of Walburga, Willibald and Wunibald are painted. Figures of Walburga and Catherine from 1736 by Anton Stapf stand in the niches of the choir tower.
The church stands in the centre of Wolfegg, in the Ravensburg district of Upper Swabia, and can be reached on foot from the village centre. The exterior, including the choir facade with its statues, is visible at any time; the interior is open during services. The organ loft and the side galleries are reached by stairs.
The organ was built by Jakob Höhr in 1736, not 1742, with 27 stops on three manuals and pedal. Orgelbau Kuhn extended it in 1981 and 1984, and Hermann Weber restored it in 2007/2008. Its only coupler is the pedal coupler, alongside a Plenus Chorus register.
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