Assumption of Mary (Grassau)
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The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is an originally Gothic, Baroque-style hall church in Grassau in the Traunstein district in Upper Bavaria . It belongs to the Grassau Parish Association in the Traunstein Dean's Office in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .
history
The church of Grassau can be traced for the first time over 1000 years ago. There was once a place of justice on the Grassau church square.
The tower of today's Grassau parish church was built up to Firsthöhe at the beginning of the 13th century. The surrounding walls of the choir and nave date from the 14th century. From 1476 the nave was converted into a three-aisled hall church, heightened, provided with chapels and newly vaulted. The year 1491 can be found above the west portal; the roof structure was dated to the years 1572–1574. In 1570 the entire roof structure burned down due to a lightning strike; From the subsequent reconstruction, today's huge roof structure comes.
A baroque transformation took place in three periods. During the first in the years 1639–1642 the vault was given baroque frescoes, as they can still be seen in the Seeon collegiate church , the three current altars (side aisles, choir) were also erected in their early Baroque original state. As a late addition to this phase, the church was given a pulpit in 1654. In the second from 1672–1685 the Katharinenkapelle was redesigned for the establishment of the brotherhood in the Baroque style and the church naves received rich fresco decorations by Jacob Carnutsch. In the years 1695–1707 a radical redesign was carried out in which the late Gothic vault ribs were chipped off and the vault was decorated with the artistically valuable stucco by Giulio Zuccalli. It was painted again in 1766/1767; all Carnutsch frescoes were covered by Johann Nepomuk della Croce , except for the underside of the gallery. The tower was raised in the years 1734/1735 by Johann Haslinger and Johann Millberger. During the renovation in 1941/1943, the chapel altars were swapped. In the 1950s the church got a new organ. A renovation was carried out on the outside in 1981/1982 and on the inside in 1991/1992.
Building
The three-aisled church is a four-bay structure with a slightly elevated central nave and a strongly recessed choir in the width of the central nave with a three-sided end and a sacristy and a chapel attached to the south. A square west tower with Romanesque triple arcades as well as baroque sound openings and onion closure stands in the axis of the ship and is integrated into the structure by side chapels.
Inside, the nave is closed off by sturdy round pillars and pointed arcades with a polished star vault, the ribs of which were removed in 1706. It is covered by a lavish, highly plastic stucco decoration with acanthus foliage , flower arrangements and angel heads, which is attributed to Giulio (called Christoforo) Zuccalli. The fresco mirror relates to Maria and the Scapular Brotherhood founded in 1700 and was executed in 1766/1767 by Johann Nepomuk della Croce from Burghausen. The procession of the three Grassau brotherhoods is depicted on the arches beneath the galleries as the remainder of the overall painting from 1707 by Jacob Carnutsch from Prien. Remains of medieval paintings from around 1425/1435 in the presbytery , in the nave, the vestibule and above the vaults show saints and the events of salvation and were possibly carried out by Master Ott from Munich, who lived between 1403 and 1423 in Grassau and Högling , Haging and Grafing is demonstrable. Paintings from the end of the 15th century depicting apostles as well as Cain and Abel have been preserved on the gallery parapet .
Gothic south portal
North aisle
South aisle
Wall painting
The Fall of Hell, wall painting with stucco decoration in the south aisle
Facility
The three altars from the years 1639–1642 were probably made in Wasserburg and reworked in 1766. The high altarpiece shows the Assumption of Mary in a copy after Peter Candid from 1620, above it a depiction of God the Father , executed by the Munich court painter Caspar Amort the Elder; the carved figures on the side depict St. Joseph with the baby Jesus and Johannes Evangelista , made by the court sculptor Matthias Schütz.
The paintings of the side altars were done by della Croce in 1766, on the left an Anna herself , on the right a Sacra Conversazione with Saints Augustine and John the Baptist . The Vesper picture from 1767 on the nave pillar also comes from della Croce .
A late Gothic sacrament niche made of red marble is arranged at the end of the choir . Next to the choir arch are large assistance figures of a crucifixion group, which were executed around 1706 by Johann Schwaiger from Reichenhall.
On the west wall is the former brotherhood altar from around 1767 with an Ecce homo painting by della Croce.
Figures of the evangelists can be seen on the pulpit basket, putti playing music on the sound cover.
On the north wall there is a rare motif of a pastor (Matthias Winkler) on the death bed from the period after 1715. A painting depicting the death of St. Joseph from 1696 can be found by the staircase.
Left side altar, Anna altar
Right side altar
the pulpit
Seven Refuge Chapel
On the south side of the church two chapels have been drawn together to form a space similar to a nave: the eastern chapel with the patronage of St. Catherine from before 1476 and the western chapel from after 1500. In the years 1693–1697 a reconstruction and vaulting took place by Michael Steinmüller. The painting from 1696 was partially exposed and shows the coronation of Mary by Joseph Eder and Adam and Eva von Carnutsch in the west.
On the east wall there is a magnificent, baroque columned altar with foliage carving by the Frauenchiemsee monastery carpenter Matthias Piechlinger from the years 1694–1696. Georg Pämer from Traunstein made the side figures . The altar panel with a representation of the seven refuge was created by Carnutsch.
The brotherhood altar stands on the west wall of the chapel. In the simple, four-columned aedicule made of Untersberg marble, there is a rococo shrine with the Grassau Brotherhood or Scapular Madonna. This figure of Mary with baby Jesus, dressed in brocade, is carried during processions.
Ceiling painting: Coronation of the Virgin
War memorial chapel and tombstones
North of the tower is the baroque chapel shortly before 1700 and painted by Carnutsch with pictures of the work of death. The altar dates from around 1700.
Several tombstones from the 16th to 18th centuries on the choir and nave are worth mentioning: the epitaph for the Eichstätter canon Johann von Hiernham, a red marble stone with a strongly plastic coat of arms in Renaissance aedicula , which was made in 1557 by a master GV; furthermore the epitaph of the Rotmair family from 1555 with the relief of a prayerful clergyman.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , pp. 401-402.
- Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 , p. 305-308 .
- Peter von Bombard: Parish Church of the Assumption in Grassau . Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Kleine Kunstführer series, 5th edition 2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the history on the website of the community of Grassau. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 45.2 ″ N , 12 ° 27 ′ 3.9 ″ E