Monastery Church of St. John the Baptist (Holzen)

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Church and monastery
High altar
Stucco ceiling with frescoes
Gallery

The monastery church of St. John the Baptist forms the center of the Holzen monastery . The former pilgrimage and abbey church is one of the most important sights in the Augsburg district . It is protected as an architectural monument .

history

In 1556/59 the monastery, which until then had been made of wood, was replaced by a stone building by the builder Ulrich Unsinig. In 1561 a two-aisled hall church was consecrated . At the beginning of the 17th century, a chapel dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo was built on the site of today's monastery church and a little later a Loreto chapel . The square was therefore given the field name "Karlsberg".

The damage caused by the Thirty Years' War required a new building at the end of the 17th century. On May 5, 1696, the foundation stone for today's monastery church was laid on the Karlsberg, for which the chapels on the site had to give way. The master builder was the Vorarlberg architect Franz Beer . The construction management took over the Ottobeurer Father Christoph Vogt, who had been confessor in the monastery since 1694 . The shell was in 1704. In 1710 the church was consecrated by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Johann Kasimir Röls. Master mason Hans Georg Radmiller from Holzen built a Laurentius chapel on the site of the old monastery church.

In 1740 the pilgrimage developed into the "divine child", a miraculous figure of Jesus in precious robes. With the secularization , the monastery was dissolved and the former abbey church became a parish church. Today's Parish Curatie Holzen was a branch of Druisheim until 1864 and is a member of the parish community Nordendorf-Westendorf.

description

The monastery church has a single nave and has a choir closed on three sides . The two square towers with octagons are each provided with a lantern dome . The interior is rectangular with three bays and recessed pillars with side chapels. The gallery consists of three floors with a silver chamber on the ground floor, the nuns' choir on the first floor and the organ above.

Furnishing

The interior was designed by Abbess Maria Benedikta Freiin vom Remchingen (1723–1743). The rich stucco work in the Wessobrunn style is attributed to Benedikt Vogel, a student of Melchior Steidl. The ceiling frescoes were created by the Augsburg painter Johann Rieger around 1704/06. In the choir they show the representation of the sacrifice of the Mass and the four types of prayer and in the nave, the patron saints of the monastery and the eight Beatitudes .

The high altar around 1730 is a work by the Augsburg sculptor Ehrgott Bernhard Bendl with a version by Veit Joseph Klein from Allmannshofen. The old altarpiece Baptism of Christ by Johann Georg Schmidtner from 1671 was reused. The figures between the columns were carved by the sculptor Anton Sturm . The paintings above the tower entrances in the choir are by the Augsburg painter Johann Georg Bergmüller . The side altars were also created by Brendl around 1730:

The four chapel altars were made around 1710/20 by Bschorer and Ehrgott Bernhard Bendl based on designs by Christoph Vogt:

  • the altar of the Holy Family with the reliquary of the martyr Nicolinus
  • the brotherhood altar with a figure of Mary and the reliquary of the catacomb saint Aurelia
  • the Charles Altar in honor of St. Karl Borromeo as a replacement for the abandoned Karl Borromeo Chapel
  • the altar of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (pilgrimage altar since 1740) with a figure of Mary in the center and a figure of Jesus dressed in precious robes, made around 1610/20

The pulpit was held in 1731 by Veit Joseph Klein from Allmannshofen. It was donated by the Haslang family.

The early baroque organ was built around 1680 for the old monastery church and transferred here under the direction of Christoph Vogt in the year the new monastery church was completed. She owned the only known spring drawer in southern Germany, which was removed in 1938/39 for a new building in the old housing.

  • Mary Altar

  • Anna Altar

  • Side altar

  • Side altar

  • pulpit

literature

Web links

Commons : Monastery Church of St. John the Baptist  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments: Bavaria: Franconia. Lower Bavaria. Swabia. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Regensberg and the Upper Palatinate . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1989 ( google.de [accessed May 24, 2019]).
  2. ^ Bavarian art monuments . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1973 ( google.de [accessed May 24, 2019]).
  3. ^ Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese e. V. Verlag des Verein für Augsburg Diocesan History., 2006 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Hans Jakob Wörner: Former district of Wertingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1973 ( google.de [accessed May 24, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Holzen: Kuratie St. Johannes Baptist. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  6. ^ Jürgen Dillmann: Sauerkraut and Baroque painting. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Werner Schiedermair: Klosterland Bavarian Swabia: in memory of the secularization of 1802/1803 . Fink, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89870-127-3 ( google.de [accessed May 24, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Martin Klonnek: Augsburg Land: Sights of the district of Augsburg . epubli, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-3220-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Hans Jakob Wörner: Former district of Wertingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1973 ( google.de [accessed on May 25, 2019]).
  10. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Historical organs in Swabia . Schnell & Steiner, 1982, ISBN 978-3-7954-0431-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 25, 2019]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '15.2 "  N , 10 ° 48' 53.9"  E