Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Hohenschambach)
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is a baroque hall church in the Hohenschambach district of Hemau in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg . It belongs to the parish community of Hohenschambach-Aichkirchen in the Laaber deanery of the diocese of Regensburg .
History and architecture
The church was donated in 1007 by Heinrich II. To the newly created diocese of Bamberg. In the year 1109 the church was incorporated into the convent , which lasted until 1803. A previous building, which was destroyed by Swedish troops in 1634, was repaired again in 1694 and burned down again in 1758, although the miraculous image of 1753 was retained. After another fire in 1758, the foundation stone for a new building was laid by Abbot Peter II vonprüfunging (the monastery coat of arms can be found on the choir arch); the consecration took place in 1764. The ceiling painting was done by Otto Gebhard , is signed and dated to 1760. In 1934, new baroque side altars were added. In 1961 the floor and chairs were renewed. A restoration was carried out from 1976 to 1979. The church cemetery was reduced to the north in 1960.
The church is a simple hall church with a retracted, semicircular closed choir with the same ridge height as the nave. The exterior is structured by wall strips. The tower, which is attached to the choir yoke on the south side, is closed by a Welsche hood over a curved cornice. The interior of the church is designed in a rustic, yet carefully executed Rococo style. On the walls of the choir and nave, cranked pilasters with richly profiled entablature pieces catch the barrel vaults with stitch caps . A curved double gallery is built into the west. The rocailles on the capitals and the generous ceiling cartouches may have been made by Joachim Anton Pfeffer fromprüfunging, the ceiling paintings across yokes by Gebhard. Abbot Peter is represented in the choir, who places the parish under the protection of the miraculous image, which is venerated by Benedictine monks . An angel holds the floor plan of the church with the (historically incorrect) year number 1209. In the nave, Maria Immaculata is depicted as Queen of Heaven enthroned over saints. At the edge of the picture is an angel with the floor plan of the convent, also with the year 1209.
Furnishing
The four-column high altar was created in 1760 and is adapted to the end of the choir. At the center is the miraculous image of Mary of the Good Council , whose carved frame is carried by angels in a glory and crowned by the dove of the Holy Spirit. In the altar extract , God the Father is shown in glory. Life-size carved figures of the princes of the apostles can be found above the side passages . The pulpit dates from 1760/1770. Above the sound cover you can see Christ carrying the cross with angels, on the body a relief with the storm on the Sea of Galilee.
A group with a crucifix and a Mother of Sorrows is dated to the third quarter of the 18th century. Several open confessionals are designed in the shape of a canopy. The Stations of the Cross are probably from the early 18th century.
The organ is a work by Josef Maier from 2007 with 19 stops on two manuals and pedal .
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. 236-237.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 21 ″ N , 11 ° 50 ′ 47.9 ″ E