Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Amberg)
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The Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is located in Amberg in Upper Swabia in the Unterallgäu district in Bavaria . The parish church is a listed building.
history
A church on this site from 1249 was originally dedicated to John the Baptist . This was rededicated in 1399 to the Patronage of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary . Maria Barbara Welser founded in 1435 in childbirth , a statue of Mary, this led to the emergence of a pilgrimage . The core of the church building is late Gothic. In 1577 a family crypt was built into the church by Bartholomäus Welser . This can be seen on the designated red marble slab in the floor below the pulpit . The church was remodeled in the 17th or 18th century. In 1865 there was another redesign in romanized forms. During this time the walls were raised and the vaults and the upper floors of the tower were renewed. The sacristy and portico were also built by Joseph Miller during this period.
description
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The outer facade is structured by pilaster strips and panels with a round arch frieze. A cassette frieze is located above this. The square substructure of the church tower on the northeast side of the nave dates from the late 15th century and is decorated with keel and clover-leaf arch friezes. The corners of the upper floors of the tower are bevelled. A pointed helmet closes the church tower . The nave is covered with a needle cap barrel. The retracted choir adjoins the nave with a three-sided end.
Furnishing
The high altar dates from around 1680, the neo-baroque extract from 1900; however, the substructure is marked with "1792". The high altar picture was created by Matthias Pussjäger in 1680 and shows the Visitation of the Virgin . The side figures of the high altar, which are attributed to Johann Pöllandt , represent the saints Katharina and Barbara .
The two side altars were created by Paul Gedler around 1765 and consist of vertical structures decorated with rocaille . The group of figures of Anna Selbdritt on the left side altar is attributed to Johann Michael Hegenauer. The right side altar shows the Gothic miraculous image of Mary in childbed , which was revised in the 18th century . In the excerpt, an angel with a crown hovers over Mary and God the Father .
The Rococo pulpit , probably also by Paul Gedler, dates from around 1760/70. |
Ludwig Caspar Weiß created the Way of the Cross from 1842. Other figures in the church are a Saint Sebastian around 1680 by Johann Pöllandt and an apostle with Salvator mundi and Maria by Martin Beichel from the beginning of the 18th century. A dungeon christ from 1737 in the sign comes from Ignaz Hillenbrand. A crucifixion group stands in a round arch panel. The donors are depicted at the feet of Saints George and Ursula .
A grave monument next to the high altar commemorates Anna Imhof († 1548), a daughter of Bartholomäus Welser. A sandstone epitaph for Bartholomäus Welser († 1561) was created in Augsburg in 1530/40.
Baptismal font
cross
Side altar with the miraculous image of Mary in childbed
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literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 24 .
- Heinrich Habel: Mindelheim district - Bavarian art monuments . Ed .: Torsten Gebhard, Anton Res. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1971, p. 31-34 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-78-111-4 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, page 24
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 48.2 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 46.1" E