Assumption of Mary (Hohenfurch)
The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is a Gothic , later Baroque-style hall church in Hohenfurch in the Weilheim-Schongau district in Upper Bavaria . It belongs to the parish of St. Michael Altenstadt in the diocese of Augsburg .
History and architecture
The church belonged to the St. Mang monastery in Füssen from 1394 to 1785 , after which it belonged to the Premonstratensian monastery in Steingaden until secularization in 1803 . The stately tower with a gable roof has been preserved from the originally Gothic church . The baroque renovation under the abbots Benedict III. Pantner (1738–1745) and Leopold von Rost (1745–1750) began to extend the nave in 1739, presumably according to the plans of master bricklayer Stephan Socher, and ended with the consecration on August 30, 1754 by the Füssen abbot Gallus Zeiler. An exterior renovation was carried out in 1977, an interior in 1999.
The building is a hall church with a strongly drawn-in, three-sided closing choir and a tower on the north side. The nave is closed by a barrel vault with stitch caps , which is decorated with stucco in the late Regency style with lattice and bandwork by Joseph Fischer from Faulenbach from 1743–1745. The ceiling painting by Johann Baptist Heel from Göggingen shows the Assumption of the Virgin. The guardian angel picture above the gallery from 1749 shows the work of the angels. The stab cap barrel in the choir rests on wall brackets and bears the coat of arms of Abbot Leopold von Rost. The rococo stucco from the years 1748/1749 in Wessobrunn style is attributed to Ignaz Finsterwalder . The ceiling paintings are from the late 19th century. The Stations of the Cross frescoes also come from Heel, were uncovered in 1932 and supplemented by Herbert Jäger in stations 5, 10 and 13.
Furnishing
Three altars from the middle of the 18th century are the main pieces of equipment. The high altar , which was created by Joseph Fischer in 1748, contains an older sculpture of the enthroned Mother of God from around 1700 and is flanked by the patrons of the Füssen monastery, Saints Benedict and Magnus . On the north wall of the choir there is a Gothic Madonna from around 1420 and a figure of St. Barbara from the 17th century attributed to Johann Pöllandt . On the confessional to the right of the high altar is a carved figure of St. John Nepomuk from the mid-18th century.
The left side altar is decorated with a painting of the Fourteen Holy Helpers , the right shows the vision of Johannes Evangelista on Patmos and on the cafeteria a Vespers from the middle of the 18th century. On the pilasters of the nave there are sculptures of Saints Sylvester and Ulrich from the 17th century and of Our Lady from 1430 on the north side; on the south side are a group of guardian angels and the Saints Anthony of Padua , Franz Xaver and Leonhard from the 18th century. The organ is a work by Franz Borgias Maerz from 1885 with ten stops on a manual and pedal .
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 , p. 484.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the history on the pages of the Altenstadt parish community. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on the organ database Bavaria online. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 58.3 " N , 10 ° 54 ′ 17.1" E