Heart of Jesus (Velburg)
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church Herz Jesu is a baroque central building that has been expanded several times in Velburg in the Upper Palatinate district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate . It belongs to the diocese of Eichstätt .
History and architecture
The pilgrimage church Herz Jesu is visible from afar on the Kreuzberg west of Velburg, which was later called Calvariberg and is the only pilgrimage church of this patronage in Bavaria. In 1723 a hermit hermitage founded by the forest brother Constantin was acquired by the hermits Frater Arsenius († 1756) and Frater Andreas Müller († 1769) from Erasbach in the Rhineland . A Holy Sepulcher Chapel was built around 1740, which was expanded to the west in 1770 by a small three-bay hall church, which forms the current chancel. A flourishing pilgrimage in the years 1791/1792 required another expansion by the Velburg mayor and sculptor Joseph Däntl through an octagonal central building. A restoration was carried out in 1966–1971. The octagonal east tower with a tent roof was only built in 1920 over the grave chapel. To the west adjoin the present sacristy and the chancel, which are closed off by a flat ceiling over a Tuscan pilaster structure. The sacristy is slightly retracted as a former choir and ends in a three-sided conclusion. The slightly elongated octagon is crowned by a low octagonal tower with a tent roof.
Inside, a flat ceiling closes off the room with coves with stitch caps over a structure of coupled pilasters with entablature pieces. The ceiling painting was done in 1795 by Lorenz Joseph Forster from Kallmünz. The large ceiling painting depicting the veneration of the Heart of Jesus by the stands of the earth is surrounded by cartouche-like medallions with biblical motifs and was exposed during the restoration until 1971. On the balustrade of the gallery are local views and the founder of the Sacred Heart Devotion, Saint Margaret Maria Alacoque . The ceiling painting in the choir shows a depiction of the Last Supper by an unknown artist.
Furnishing
The uniformly early classicist furnishings including the doors, church and confessionals also come from Däntl. The noble setting in white and gold of the altars and pulpit, which was restored during the aforementioned restoration, creates a friendly spatial effect in conjunction with the bright lighting.
The high altar was created in 1794 and redesigned in 1817 by the sculptor Adam Bittner. The six-column structure is provided with side figures and an altarpiece of the Sacred Heart from the middle of the 18th century by Konrad Wild from Amberg. The side altars, which are also noteworthy, are furnished with four-column retables in empire shapes with artistically valuable altar leaves by a Munich artist and show on the left a depiction of the heart of Mary with figures of Saints Joachim and Anna, on the right Saint Sebastian with side figures of Saints Felix and Nabor.
In the choir there are votive pictures with city views of Landshut and Neumarkt (1785) and Deining and Greding (1796), as well as numerous votive candles , some of which date back to the 19th century. Limestone reliefs with inscriptions made by Frater Andreas Müller can be found on the sloping western sides. In the grave chapel there are life-size sculptures of the corpse of Jesus, St. Magdalena and Peter from the middle of the 18th century by Andreas Müller.
organ
The organ is a work by Wilhelm Hepp from Amberg (student of Johann Adam Funtsch ) from 1803 with 12 stops on a manual and pedal . In 1898 Ludwig Edenhofer carried out a renovation, in 1917 the prospect pipes were expanded due to the war. In 1979 a general renovation was carried out by Georg Jann . In 2017 it was extensively restored by the Dlabal & Mettler company in Bilsko . Today's disposition is:
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literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03118-0 , pp. 813–815.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ in the online edition of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung from June 20, 2017. Accessed June 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '2.7 " N , 11 ° 39" 46.7 " E