Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Perchting)
The Visitation of Mary , the Catholic parish church in Perchting , was rebuilt after a fire between 1768 and 1774 in the Rococo style. The house of God, which is splendidly furnished inside, belongs to the diocese of Augsburg . The patronage is the Feast of the Visitation on July 2nd. The church and the surrounding cemetery are under monument protection .
history
Early history
The first documentary mention of a church in Perchting comes from 1357. Heinrich Perchtinger von Hohenburg, a member of an old Perchtinger aristocratic family, sold the Perchtingen church loan and the grounds owned by the church to the Polling monastery . It is uncertain whether the church building belonging to it was at the location of today's church. Pastor Joseph Dillizer, an early chronicler of the surrounding villages, writes: “In the older times the church stood outside the village to the west on a beautiful hill, which is now overgrown with large trees, and where a beautiful, There is a brick chapel of the Crucified in memory. ”This refers to today's Kalvarienberg , which is also referred to in a miracle book from the 17th century with the field name “ Kirchberg ” in the parish . The book reports on a pilgrimage to Perchtingen that originated in 1696. The reason for this was a herd of cows that had broken out several times for no apparent reason and escaped the shepherd. The village community promised to donate an altar for “an unnatural woman in the wall” if the flock would return unscathed. In the evening "the whole hearth went in completely sitsam over the Khirchberg". Out of gratitude, the Perchtingen people took the statue of Mary out of the wall niche and built an altar for it, which became a place of pilgrimage for people from the surrounding area who sought help.
Building history
It is not known when the first church was built in the center of the village. The earliest reference to a church building, which was located in the area of today's church, comes from the year 1673. The building must have been very old at this point in time, because in 1685 the church tower is described as “completely in disrepair”. 15 years later, the patron saint at the time , the provost of Polling Monastery, approved a new building. The order was given to Michael Natter, a Vorarlberg master builder who worked as a master builder for the Augustinian Canons in Dießen. Between 1701 and 1705, the massive looking square tower on the west side of the church was built under his direction.
In 1764, the church accounting books report on repairs to the roof structure that were caused by a fire triggered by a lightning strike. The sooty interior of the church was repainted in 1766 by the Munich painter Franz Kurzinger.
Only two years later, another fire led to the complete destruction of the wooden nave . On April 14, 1768, a fire broke out in a mercenary house , which spread rapidly and left four farms, seven Sölden, the rectory and the church in ruins. In a few hours, a third of all Perchtingen properties were destroyed. "It is certainly very painful for me to hear that poor Perchtinger was hit by such a great misfortune by means of such an excruciating conflagration, and I regret it from the bottom of my heart", writes Anton Clemens Graf Toerring-Seefeld , who was the church patron of the Pollingers in 1765 and with it had taken over the duty of care for the church. The old patrons, represented by their provost Franz Töpsl , who was willing to build, also took part and promised financial and practical help with the reconstruction. By the end of 1768 the shell was already in place, the planning and execution of which was carried out by the Munich city architect Balthasar Trischberger . The interior work in the Rococo style, however, dragged on. Only after Elector Max III. Joseph had sought further patrons at the request of the pastor , the work could be continued and completed in 1774.
Furnishing
For the facilities artists were commissioned, which were among the best of their time. Johann Baptist Baader created the splendid ceiling frescoes that draw the eye . Also known as "Lech Hansl" fresco painter chose as the theme for the ceiling painting of the presbytery the right to patronage Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth . The large ceiling fresco of the nave tells the story of the two martyrdoms of St. Sebastian .
The high altar , side altars, pulpit , gallery and baptismal font are the work of Kistler and carver Bartholomäus Zwinck from Murnau . The sculptures on the high altar and sculptures were created in the workshop of the important Rococo sculptor Franz Xaver Schmädl in Weilheim . From the Munich Hofstuckator Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger from the Wessobrunner school which dates stucco of the church and of the Starnberg painter Andreas Schnabl the marbling of the altars. Together they succeeded in creating a work of art that exudes the rococo zeitgeist in old Bavaria.
Choir fresco of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary by Johann Baptist Baader
Detail on the high altar: God the Father as ruler of the world by Franz Xaver Schmädl
West side of the interior with organ and gallery
High altar with sculptures by Franz Xaver Schmädl
Stuccoed pulpit by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder J.
Wrought iron offering box with angel
Early Gothic crucifix from the 14th century
Processional cross by Franz Xaver Schmädl
Bells
To rebuild the church, two church bells were made in 1769 , one of which had to be delivered to the war commissioner during the First World War . “The bitterness was very great. There was a threat of beating the inspector with the bell handle, ”says the Perchtingen pastor's diary. As a replacement, the parish bought two bells from the church in Waltenhofen after the war , which were brought to the village in a festive procession in 1920. A third bell was added in 1921. It was labeled: “The Lord spare us from plague, hunger and war. Dedicated to Perchting's heroes 1914/18. "
Two decades later, two of these three new church bells were picked up and melted down as raw materials essential to the war effort for the Second World War . The last of the bells cast in 1769 was also confiscated, but was found in a bell storage facility after the war and retrieved. To this day it strikes the quarter of an hour.
Two new bells, which the parish was able to acquire from a bell foundry in Westphalia in 1948 , replaced the forced "metal donation". They were paid partly in Reichsmarks and partly - as was common shortly after the war - in barter for timber from Perchting's forests.
literature
- Gertrud Rank, Michael Schmid: A piece of heaven, art historical insights into the Starnberg church landscape. Kulturverlag Starnberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-941167-03-2 .
- Church leader: Catholic parish Perchting with Hadorf and Landstetten. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-656-8 .
- Franz and Siegfried Leutenbauer: Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, Perchting , 1998.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Monumenta Boica. Editor: Royal Academy of Sciences, Volume 10, p. 125.
- ↑ Joseph Dillizer: The Five Lakes region by the year 1800. Althistorische messages. Publisher: Deanery Starnberg, 1987.
- ↑ Perchting Parish, Miracle Book
- ↑ a b c Church leaders, 2010
- ^ A b Franz, Siegfried Leutenbauer, 1998
- ^ Rank, Schmid, 2008
- ^ Parish Perchting, diary of the pastor
Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 11 ° 16 ′ 29.2 ″ E