Holy Cross (Schwabhausen near Landsberg)
The Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Schwabhausen near Landsberg , a district of the community of Weil in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , was built in the years 1701/02 in the Baroque style. The rococo- style painting was done in 1779 by Vitus Felix Rigl .
architecture
Exterior construction
The bell tower, completed in 1719 and covered with an onion dome, rises in the northern corner of the choir . Rectangular blind windows are cut into the tower substructure , the two-storey, octagonal structure is broken up by large, round-arched sound arcades and is structured by corner pilasters and segmented cornice pieces .
inner space
The church is designed as a uniform hall structure. The nave extends over four axes , the retracted choir is closed in a semicircle. The choir and nave are covered by flat needle cap barrels. A double gallery with simple parapets forms the western end of the nave .
Frescoes and stucco-imitating paintings
The frescoes and the painted stucco decoration were carried out by Vitus Felix Rigl . The painted stucco cartouche on the choir arch contains a chronogram with the year 1779.
The large ceiling fresco in the nave with the scene of the rehearsal of the cross by St. Helena , mother of Emperor Constantine the Great , bears the signature "Felix Rigl pinxit 1779" (Felix Rigl painted it in 1779). According to legend, St. Helena found the cross of Christ and was identified as the true cross by being raised from the dead when touched. The two smaller pictures depict the Archangel Michael and the battle of the Milvian Bridge . In this battle Constantine defeated his rival Maxentius under the sign of the cross .
The smaller cartouche pictures in tone-on-tone painting show scenes from the story of the prophet Moses such as the brazen serpent and Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea. The Last Supper is depicted on the choir fresco .
Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Trial of the Cross
Last Supper
Furnishing
- The sculptures on the six-column high altar were created by Johann Luidl around 1735 . The crucifix in the middle is framed by the figures of Mary and the Evangelist John , the outer figures represent Emperor Constantine and his mother, Saint Helena.
- The two side altars date from around 1780, the altar leaves are marked “N. Mozart ”. On the left altar you can see a Pietà , on the right altar the instruction of Mary.
- The pulpit dates back to the baroque period.
- The oval images of the apostles on the gallery parapets date from the second half of the 18th century.
- A processional pole is decorated with the figures of the Holy Family .
Left side altar
Main altar and side altars
Right side altar
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 1099.
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 843-845 .
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 37 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 40 ″ E