Holy Cross (Oberfinning)
The Catholic parish church Heilig Kreuz in Oberfinning , the main town of the municipality of Finning in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , is a Gothic hall building from the second half of the 15th century, which was redesigned in the Rococo style in the middle of the 18th century . The church belongs to the parish community Windach in the diocese of Augsburg . The building is on the list of protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.
history
In the second half of the 15th century the nave , which was modified around 1710, and the tower were built. The choir was added to the late Gothic nave in 1754 . In the years 1751 to 1754, the interior was given a stucco decor in the Rococo style, which was probably carried out by Georg Dötl from Obermühlhausen based on designs by the master builder and plasterer Nikolaus Schütz from Landsberg am Lech . The ceiling paintings were created by Karl Vorhölzer , who works in Dießen am Ammersee , around 1850. Renovations were carried out on the outside in 1978 and on the inside from 1980 to 1982 and 1993/94.
architecture
Exterior construction
In the northern choir angle of a steep stands gable roof covered, five-storey tower, which the bell storey on all four sides coupled Abat-son has. The floors are divided by glare fields, which are framed by cornices with Gothic tracery friezes . To the west of the tower is a sacristy covered with a pent roof . A sign with a hipped roof is attached to the shingled west facade .
The nave and choir are broken up by high arched windows, and a strong eaves cornice runs under the roof approach . The outer walls of the choir are structured by flat double pilasters , the pilaster strips on the nave are painted on.
inner space
The four-bay nave has a barrel vault , in the two-bay, semicircular closed choir, this is interspersed with stitch caps . In the west there is a double gallery with swinging parapets, the floors of which have minimal headroom. The paintings on the lower gallery parapet depict scenes from the life of Jesus and the apostles, which are probably also by Karl Vorhölzer.
organ
On the upper gallery is in the style of Neo-Romanesque performed organ .
Stucco and ceiling paintings
The entire interior is covered with rococo stucco in the form of foliage, rocailles , brocade and grid fields. In the choir, the early Rococo stucco, made from 1751 to 1754, is more richly designed than in the nave. The colored smalt version was renewed in 1980/82. The ceiling paintings on the choir vault show Jesus' descent from the cross , the ceiling painting in the nave shows the finding of the cross .
Stucco decor in the nave
Descent from the Cross, stucco decoration in the choir
Finding the Cross
Furnishing
- The high altar , made of stucco marble in 1789 , is in the transitional style from late rococo to early classicism . The altar panel shows Jesus on the cross with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene.
- On the north wall of the choir stand the baptismal group of Jesus made by Lorenz Luidl and St. Veronica with the handkerchief .
- The side altars with high baroque echoes, made in 1710, are also by Lorenz Luidl. The altar panel on the left shows St. Catherine before Mary, assisted by the apostles Peter and Paul, the right altar shows a crowned crescent Madonna , assisted by St. Apollonia and St. Barbara .
- The most important work of art is the monumental, approximately five meter high, expressive crucifix with a Mater Dolorosa by Johann Luidl .
- The late Rococo pulpit from the 1780s came into the church at the same time as the high altar.
- The figures of the Archangel Michael , St. George , St. Hubertus and a monk on the nave walls were created by Lorenz Luidl.
- Lorenz Luidl also created the figure of St. Anthony as a hermit under the gallery and a group of Mounts of Olives in the sign .
- The fourteen Kreuzweg panels were painted in 1826 by Peter Schmid from Pflugdorf.
- A votive panel from 1615 with an elaborately carved Renaissance frame hangs under the gallery .
pulpit
Saint Veronica
Saint Anthony
Votive tablet from 1615
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 902.
- 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. 182-184 .
- Michael Meier: The art and cultural monuments in the Munich region - western perimeter. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1977, p. 101.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oberfinning: Holy Cross Diocese of Augsburg.
- ↑ List of monuments for finning (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-81-120-1 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 12.3 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 45.3 ″ E