Sankt Ulrich

Sankt Ulrich stands in Krumbach, a town in Swabia. It began as the village church of Hürben, which joined the town in 1902. The walls go back to around the year 1000. That makes it the oldest church in Krumbach and one of the oldest in the Diocese of Augsburg. A sandstone plaque inside dates the present building to 1438. The Baroque look you see today comes from renovations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Inside, the first thing to catch your eye is a Neo-Baroque high altar from the late nineteenth century. The Crucifixion altarpiece is Johann Baptist Dollenbacher's work of 1848. The side altars carry paintings by the Fröschle family, made between 1780 and 1790. Overhead, frescoes by Andreas Merck from around 1725 show Saint Ulrich and the Battle of Lechfeld. A pulpit from around 1850 stands below them.

The organ has its own story of renewal. Joseph Anton Dreher built the first instrument in 1827, and the Steinmeyer firm reworked it in 1899. The console and pedalboard date from a renovation of 1986. Every first Sunday in July, Hürben keeps the Ulrichsfest for Saint Ulrich, whose feast day falls on 4 July.