Assumption of Mary (Brannenburg)
The parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Brannenburg is a late Gothic hall church . The listed building characterizes the townscape with its yellow paintwork and the high, pointed church tower.
history
The church is documented for the first time in 1315. From 1455 to 1956 she was parish at Großholzhausen . The church, built in the Gothic style, was redesigned in Baroque style between 1670 and 1680 and in 1723/24, and from 1772 it was designed in the Rococo style.
In 1789 Sebastian Rechenauer the Elder painted the church with Rococo frescoes. It was painted over in the Nazarene style in 1883/84. In 1920 it was painted again. In the course of this, frescoes from the 16th century were uncovered on the left choir wall.
architecture
The almost east-facing nave with a steep pitched roof is built in the middle of a cemetery, the walling of which dates back to the 16th / 17th centuries. Century. On the south side there is a small cemetery chapel with a canopy and roof turret .
The narrow nave is eight meters wide and is closed off in the east by a 3/8 choir. High, arched windows from the baroque era illuminate the interior. A pointed triumphal arch connects the nave with the choir. The total length from the western porch to the choir is 31 meters.
The undivided, windowless west tower on a square floor plan has two narrow acoustic arcades below the gable. The clock faces of the tower clock are attached to the four stone triangular gables on all sides. A slender, eight-sided, gothic pointed helmet is crowned by a gilded tower button with a cross and reaches a height of 42 meters. In the west there is a pillared porch from 1788 with a curved gable, which bears the Preysinger coat of arms .
Furnishing
The three altars were created in 1685, the main altar redesigned in 1724. The side altars are dedicated to St. Florian and St. Sebastian , which are shown in a large round arch between two columns with gilded capitals. The main altar shows the Madonna and Child in the arched field, surrounded by putti . Instead of the two flanking double columns, the altar was widened in 1724 by the two side wings, which depict St. Joseph and St. Show Joachim .
On the north long side is the pulpit with a sound cover from 1772 in the Rococo style. Access to the pulpit is made possible from the sacristy . The pulpit cross with crucifix on the opposite south wall dates from the middle of the 18th century. Ludwig Tachinger designed the oldest epitaph in 1332. The wooden church stalls with carved cheeks leave a central aisle free.
The ceiling painting goes back to Martin Niedermaier from 1920, who took up the themes of the rococo frescoes painted over: Assumption in the ship and Mary's temple passage in the choir.
organ
The organ was rebuilt in 1999 by the Orgelbau Linder workshop ( Nussdorf am Inn ) using the case of the previous organ and old pipe work by Franz Borgias Maerz (I + P / 7, 1905) , and a Rückpositiv was added. The instrument has 17 registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal . The action is mechanical, the wind chests designed as sliding chests. The pipework from the previous organ was completely incorporated into the new main organ. The organ has the following disposition
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P.
- Super octave coupling: II
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Mood :
- Height a 1 = 440 Hz.
- Neidhardt temperature.
- Remarks
- ↑ a b excerpt from mixture.
- ↑ a b Pipe inventory from the previous organ.
- ↑ Extension from sub-bass.
- ↑ Extension from Octave bass.
Bells
The parish church has a four-bell ring. The three largest bells were cast in 1950 and 1951 and are attached to the wooden bell chair. Before the Second World War, the church had four bells, all of which were melted down except for the smallest. The smallest bell (weighing 72 kg) was brought to safety by some villagers at the beginning of the war and was hidden at a nearby farm throughout the war. The little bell has a steel yoke.
| No. |
Casting year |
Mass (kg) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1951 | 900 |
| 2 | 1950 | 500 |
| 3 | 1951 | 400 |
| 4th | 1921 | 72 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Brannenburg Monuments , accessed on December 14, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e Information on the church from the Degerndorf-Brannenburg parish association ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2013 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. , accessed December 14, 2013.
- ^ Orgelbau Alois Linder: Organ Brannenburg. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 .
- ^ Organ in Brannenburg , accessed on July 29, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 44 '22 .4 " N , 12 ° 5' 29.4" E