Assumption of Mary (Pappenheim)
Assumption of Mary is a Roman Catholic church at Schützenstraße 2 in Pappenheim in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria .
history
Bishop Franz Leopold Freiherr von Leonrod from Eichstätt campaigned for the building of a church in the "Missionsgemeinde" Pappenheim and was present at both the laying of the foundation stone and the consecration of the church on September 29, 1888. A collection throughout Bavaria, which was ordered by the king, brought in about half of the construction costs, the rest was financed by the community, the diocese of Eichstätt and individual donors. Before this church was built, the Catholic parish in Pappenheim celebrated its services in the donkey stable of the castle and other halls.
The neo-Romanesque church of the Assumption of Mary is designed as a three-aisled pillar basilica, as was common in southern Germany from the 12th century. On the western side of the gable there is a large wheeled window above a Romanesque gable portal with a tympanum . The longitudinal fronts are structured by pilaster strips and small arched windows, under the eaves there is an arched frieze. A four-storey campanile with twin windows and a pyramid roof serves as the bell tower.
The Assumption of Mary was built at the foot of the castle and at the entrance to the old town; apparently in order to effectively position the entrance front including the rose window, an east-west orientation was dispensed with. The historicist building, built according to plans by Friedrich Niedermayer , was lavishly decorated with paintings instead of, as was apparently initially feared, of being sparingly furnished.
The murals inside came from Josef or Johannes Lang, a Nazarene from the Munich school . In the apse was a representation of Christ Pantocrator , surrounded by the prophets Isaiah , Jeremiah , Ezekiel and Daniel as well as the four evangelist symbols and the four church fathers Augustine , Ambrosius , Hieronymus and Gregory . In the nave, six scenes from the life of Mary could be seen, as well as figures from the Old and New Testaments.
Assumption of Mary as seen from the old town of Pappenheim
inner space
detail
View to the organ gallery
In the 1960s these pictures were whitewashed. Part of the interior of the church was also replaced by pieces that were modern at the time. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church in the 1980s, however, these measures were reversed as far as possible. Assumption of the Virgin Mary was not only renovated on the outside, but also the wall paintings inside were exposed and restored. This made the church one of the “most important and most beautiful historical documents for Catholic church building in the 19th century”, although the original glazing of the windows is missing.
The neo-Gothic high altar, which comes from the Leonrod Chapel in Eichstätt Cathedral and had to be removed there because a larger bishop's burial place was set up, is not part of the original furnishings . The altar was donated by the diocesan clergy for Franz Leopold von Leonrod's 25th jubilee as a priest in 1876 and designed by the sculptor Basler in Simbach and the painter Gerhäuser in Eichstätt according to designs by Inspector Beyschlag. Gerhäuser also created two angel pictures for the altar. In the middle is St. Francis as the namesake of the bishop, flanked by Matthew and Matthias . The second patron saint, St. Leopold , can be seen in the dismantling ; two angels hold banners that draw attention to the occasion of the foundation.
The sculptor Hans Kreuz created, among other things, the protective cloak Madonna made of Jura marble, which stands on the church forecourt. It includes on the one hand the priest with his community, shown in front of the church and castle Pappenheim , on the other hand Saint Sola , who worked in neighboring Solnhofen .
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Description of the church on the website of the Altmühltal Nature Park
- ^ The church on the website of the city of Pappenheim
- ↑ www.pappenheim.info
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 54.3 " N , 10 ° 58 ′ 20.4" E