Grave church (Deggendorf)

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The Holy Sepulcher Church

The Holy Sepulcher Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a branch church of the Deggendorf parish of the Assumption of Mary, where the anti-Jewish pilgrimage Deggendorfer Gnad existed until 1992 .

Historical background and sources

According to a contemporary source from 1338, the Jews in Deggendorf were burned and killed in the autumn of the same year. This assault-like murder with victims of unknown number was apparently connected with the high level of debt of Deggendorf citizens with the Jews who were killed. For the following days, as in many similar cases, further pogrom-like mass murders of Jews in the Lower Bavarian area of ​​Deggendorf are recorded.

In the following years, the construction of the grave church began within the Deggendorf city wall, which in 1361 received the then widespread patronage "of the body of Christ and the blessed apostles Peter and Paul". So far it has not been possible to clarify whether the church is located on the site of a former synagogue. Deggendorf already belonged to the diocese of Regensburg , which was then subordinate to Bishop Nikolaus von Ybbs .

art

The three-aisled basilica with a single-nave choir stands at the southern end of the town square. It received its striking, 70 meter high tower between 1722 and 1727. Before that there was only one roof turret on the church.

The foundation stone for the tower was laid on September 1, 1722. It was started according to the plans of Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer from Munich by city mason Johann Mayr. It was continued and completed after Mayr's illness from 1723 by his son-in-law Johann Michael Fischer , whose first works it was. Construction was completed on October 9, 1727. The tower is richly structured and is crowned by a replica of the Gnad monstrance , which was only added to the dome in 1728. The solemn consecration took place on Easter of the same year.

The interior was re-Gothicized except for a communion relief by Martin Leutner in 1868. The so-called "Jewish altar", a memorial altar that can be traced back to 1604 for the first time, stood above the location of the alleged sacrifice of the host under the organ gallery. A part of it is now located as an altar table on the high altar, the so-called "baker's altar", which was built around 1510. This is a carved winged altar with the depiction of the flight into Egypt, the circumcision of Christ, the burial and the twelve year old in the temple. The choir arch crucifix dates from around 1450 and a Madonna and Child was created around 1480.

In 1994 the vault in the south aisle collapsed. Ten years later, the renovation of the grave church began, which was completed in April 2012 with the consecration of the altar by Gerhard Ludwig Müller . 1.8 million euros were invested in the renovation, one million of which came from donations.

literature

  • Manfred Eder : The "Deggendorfer Gnad". Origin and development of a host pilgrimage in the context of theology and history . Passavia-Verlag, Passau 1992, ISBN 3-86036-005-1 ( plus dissertation, University of Regensburg 1991).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Eder: The "Deggendorfer Gnad" , Deggendorf 1992, pp. 198-199.
  2. ↑ Eder, 1992, p. 289.
  3. ↑ Eder, 1992, p. 362. According to this, Pastor Johannes Sartorius first established a connection between the altar and the alleged outrage in 1604.
  4. ↑ Michaela Arbinger: eBay auction is supposed to save the grave church. In: Passauer Neue Presse of December 3, 2008 (p. 25)
  5. ↑ mic: Bishop consecrates altar: grave church open again. pnp.de, April 22, 2012, accessed on March 24, 2019 (xxx): "xxx"

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 44.7 ″  E