Holy Trinity (Weilheim in Upper Bavaria)

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Trinity Church, 2016

The Heilige Dreifaltigkeit church (also known as the Holy Trinity Church or Holy Spirit Hospital Church ) is located in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria in the Weilheim-Schongau district . The address is Münchener Straße 2, 82362 Weilheim .

The house of God, consecrated to the Most Holy Trinity , is one of the most important classical churches in Bavaria and, together with its furnishings, is a listed building .

history

At the place in front of the former smith's gate there was probably a church from around 1476. For the Franciscan monastery founded in 1639, a new church was built on this site, which was dedicated to St. Joseph was consecrated. The monastery was secularized in 1802 , the church profaned and then used as a storage room and theater. When the economic wing of the monastery, which had been converted into hostels (condominiums), burned down in 1825 and the Heilig-Geist-Spital was relocated from the city center to the gates of the city, the largely spared, converted church was designed in a classicist manner in 1826/27 based on designs by Leonhard Schmidtner around.

In 1909, the interior was redesigned based on Schmidtner's plans, which were only partially implemented in 1827 for financial reasons. The town of Weilheim has owned the church since the hospital foundation was dissolved in 1943. Renovation work took place in 1951 and 1979.

After static defects were identified in 2013 and an emergency backup had to be carried out, the city council decided to renovate the church at the beginning of 2014, and from the beginning of 2015 to January 2017, both outside and inside were renovated and refurbished, restoring the appearance of 1909.

architecture

The italizing hall church has a strongly recessed, semicircular apse . The four-bay nave is elongated and has a barrel vault , the bays are separated by rosette-covered belt arches . In front of it is a Tuscan columned portico , which is mainly made of natural stone and bricks. In the gable triangle it bears the inscription TRINO DEO GRATA CIVITAS 'To the Triune God the Grateful Citizenship' in memory of the mild fire in the adjacent buildings in 1825. The west facade, which bears an ox-eye in the center , is covered by two facade turrets that house the two bells .

The south side is structured by a narrow plinth and " arched windows , rectangular panels and a cornice band ".

Furnishing

Altars

The high altar was made of stucco marble in 1908 according to plans from 1827/28 . The high altar picture, which was already installed in the previous altar, shows the coronation of Mary . The then hospital administrator Martin Hipper gave the painting by Johann Michael Wittmer from Murnau am Staffelsee to the church. The altar was consecrated by Bishop Maximilian von Lingg on September 18, 1909. He also used relics of Saints Crescentius and Restituta .

The left side altar , the Marienaltar, initially also carried a painting by Johann Michael Wittmer from 1827, which depicts the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian . The right side altar, the Josephs altar, showed the death of St. Scholastica , a loan from King Ludwig I from the depot of the royal central gallery. Both representations were replaced in 1830 by new paintings by Richard Purnickl ( Marien and Josefstod ). In 1908 the altars were redesigned again (now according to Schmidtner's original plans) and Purnickl's pictures were placed in stucco frames on the sides of the high altar. In addition to the design of both side altars, their titles were also changed: The Marien Altar was given the title " Holy Family ", the Joseph Altar " Sacred Heart of Jesus ". The new pictures were made by Colombo Max , they show the Holy Family on the left and the vision of Margareta Maria Alacoque of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the right.

Ceiling painting

Until 1908, the ceiling vault was only adorned with stucco . The free fields were then - as originally planned by Schmidtner - colored by Georg Winkler based on designs by Joseph Huber-Feldkirch .

The pictures in the choir show on the one hand the vision of Francis of Assisi and on the other hand the bird sermon of the same and thus point to the former adjoining Franciscan monastery.

There are three representations in the longship:

Church stalls

The stalls for the beneficiaries from 1827 are still preserved today. Choir stalls for the Sisters of Mercy were made in 1910 by the Weilheim carpenter Anton Geisenhofer. It is decorated with carvings by the Munich Finster and Schuhmann.

organ

Due to damage, the old organ was replaced in 1868 by parts of the old organ in the parish church of the Assumption of Mary , until a completely new instrument from the Munich organ builder Franz Borgias Maerz was purchased in 1898 . In 1975 this was also replaced and a new one with 18 registers on two manuals and pedal was built , taking over some of the stops from the Maerz organ . This instrument with pocket drawer and electric play and stop action has the following disposition :

I main work
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Salizional 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flute 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II subsidiary work
Dumped 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Field flute 2 ′
Minor fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbal 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Gamba 4 ′
Rauschpfeife 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
  • Coupling : II / I, super octave II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 1 free combination, tutti, crescendo roller, crescendo off, piano pedal off, tongues off

Bells

The bells of the previous building were remelted for the new church in 1827. According to the inscription, the smaller bell was cast in 1476, the larger one probably also came from the 15th century, but no year was written on it, only the names of the four evangelists . The casting was done in 1827 by Wolfgang Hubinger in Munich : the new large bell, consecrated to Saints John and Paul , weighed 185 kg, the smaller 115 kg was the patronage of Saint Mary Magdalene . Both bells were melted down during World War I in 1917.

In 1923 the Dreifaltigkeitskirche received two new bells cast by Hans Kennerknecht from Weilheim. They weighed 175 and 125 kg and were consecrated on April 19, together with other bells for the other Catholic churches in Weilheim on Marienplatz. The smaller St. Joseph bell was adorned with a crucifix on one side and a depiction of the patron saint and the inscription S. Josef tuere nos morientes (“Saint Joseph stands up for our dying”) on the other . This death bell had to be delivered to be melted down in 1942 during World War II . The second, larger bell was spared, it is decorated with an image of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary .

The meltdown in 1942 was compensated for by a new bell in 1965, it is adorned with a crucifix.

The iron bell chair was replaced by a wooden one in 2015.

Bell jar Caster Casting location Casting year Chime Weight
(in kg) 		inscription
Ave Maria bell Hans Kennerknecht Weilheim 1923 175 AVE MARIA
HANS KENNERKNECHT IN WEILHEIM. 1923
Holy Cross Bell Georg Hofweber regensburg 1965 it 139 CRUX AVE SPES UNICA ("Greetings, O cross, you only hope")

literature

  • Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ...". The Weilheimer Heilig-Geist-Spital as an example of private and communal social welfare in the Middle Ages and modern times (around 1328 to 1943) (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , pp. 200–213 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c Maria Hofstetter: A sacred jewel. In: Kreisbote.de. January 25, 2017. Retrieved March 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ List of monuments for Weilheim (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, p. 12. Accessed on March 22, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c d Joachim Heberlein: Trinity Church at the Heilig-Geist-Spital. In: weilheimerglocken.de. November 26, 2016, accessed March 21, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c “The end crowns the work!” - Renovation work on the Holy Spirit Church completed. In: weilheim.de. February 4, 2016, accessed March 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Richard Bittner: A touch of great architecture at the Weilheimer Dreifaltigkeitskirche . In: Heimatverband Lech-Isar-Land (Hrsg.): Lech-Isar-Land 2018. Heimatkundliches Jahrbuch . Self-published, Weilheim in Oberbayern 2018, p. 227–230 , here p. 230 .
  7. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "A house full of glory looks ..." (PDF; 3.5 MB) In: VERBO. Parish community Weilheim, January 2017, p. 20 , accessed on March 21, 2018 .
  8. ^ Chronicle / History. In: buergerheim-wm.de. Städtisches Bürgerheim Weilheim, accessed on March 22, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Brigitte Gretschmann: Heilig-Geist-Spitalkirche: renovation behind a closed door. In: Merkur.de. August 17, 2016, accessed March 22, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Emanuel Gronau: A charity campaign that is second to none. In: Merkur.de. February 6, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ..." (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , p. 201 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  12. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ..." (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , p. 204 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  13. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ..." (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , pp. 204-207 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  14. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ..." (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , pp. 207 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search).
  15. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ..." (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , p. 213 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  16. ↑ Joachim Heberlein: "What you did to the least of my brothers, you did to me ..." (= Munich theological contributions . Volume 14). Dissertation at the same time . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8316-0989-5 , p. 210 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  17. ↑ Michael Bernhard (Ed.): Organ database Bavaria online. Data records 30351–30353. 2009. Retrieved March 2, 2020.

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 33.7 ″  E