Holy Blood (Elbach)

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Choir of the cemetery chapel

The Roman Catholic Heilig Blut cemetery chapel is an originally late Gothic, Baroque-style hall church in Elbach , a district of the Fischbachau community in the Miesbach district in Upper Bavaria . It used to be a pilgrimage church . The church is located directly next to the parish church of St. Andreas and, like this, belongs to the parish of Elbach in the parish association of Oberes Leitzachtal in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . Like the neighboring parish church, this cemetery chapel is one of the protected architectural monuments that are on the list of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments .

History and architecture

Holy Blood Chapel with the parish church behind it

Building history

The late Gothic cemetery chapel of the Holy Blood - a hall building closed on three sides with a slender tower in the west - was largely renovated and enlarged in the Baroque style in 1669/1670 by Georg (II), Martin, Wolfgang and Hanns Zwerger, following a side wall and the vault of the old one Chapel collapsed. The then pastor Benno Plabst donated half of the necessary construction costs. The small church was consecrated in 1671. In 1791 the former pilgrimage church was stabilized with anchors as part of restoration work . Further security measures were necessary in the 19th century. The vault was renovated in 1855 and 1871 because it had got a continuous crack. In 1881/1899 a four-tier supporting substructure was created for the tower, which was in danger of collapsing. Another restoration took place between 1984 and 1987.

inner space

Stuck the dwarf

The hall building, which is closed on three sides, shows a chancel separated from the chancel . At the entrance there is a monochrome illusionistic portal wall painting with a blood savior . The interior is closed by a barrel vault with stitch caps over fluted pilasters .

The rich stucco from Schliersee consists of garlands, vases, tendrils, full- length angel figures and a figure of Christ with wounds .

Furnishing

The high altar from 1633 by Stephan Zwinckh (Miesbach) is equipped with figures of a Blood Savior and a Vespers , Saints Peter , Andreas and Augustine as well as angels with the tools of the Passion ; In 1672 the artists Zellner ( Kistler ), Leisberger (painter) and Kofler (sculptor) added a new tabernacle zone ; to the side are supraported top pictures in rococo frames with the saints Johann Nepomuk and Aloisius von Gonzaga . The side altars by Anton Niggl in the choir with the original version from around 1760 are provided with altar leaves by Saints Leonhard and Florian , Antonius of Padua and Sebastian . About the portals two are stucco reliefs arranged that the spear of Longinus in the side of Christ with the kneeling founder , Father Benno Plabst and the Cross represent.

The walls used to be hung with countless votive tablets .

  • Interior of the chapel with high altar

  • High altar

  • Stucco relief image crucifixion group with Longinus

  • Stucco relief image with two Pharisees in Turkish costume

  • Stucco reliefs on the choir vault

organ

Interior of the chapel to the west with an organ from 1700

The organ in the Holy Blood Chapel is one of the few instruments that have been preserved in Bavaria from around 1700. She was initially in the Church of St. Andrew and was moved here in 1787. The instrument with six registers on a manual and pedal was restored in 2011 by Orgelbau Linder . The disposition is:

Manual CDEFGA – c 3
Copel 8th' Wood, covered
Fletten 4 ′ Wood, open
Principal 2 ′ completely in the prospectus
Quint 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ reconstructed
Mixture 2-fold 1'
CDEFGA – a 0 pedal
bass 8th' Wood, open;
repeated on c 0
Fixed pedal coupler

During the restoration work in 2011, the organ was largely returned to its condition from 1853. The original bellows with two wedge bellows, which can be operated by hand, was reconstructed in the lower case of the organ. The originally existing wing doors have also been added.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , p. 262.
  • Evelyn and Henning von Rochow: The churches of St. Andreas and Hl. Blood in Elbach. Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg 2002.

Web links

Commons : Heilig Blut (Elbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ in the Elbach Holy Blood Church on the Linder company website. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Summary of the restoration from 2011 with pictures , accessed on September 15, 2018.

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 29.7 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 5.9 ″  E