Assumption of Mary (Karpfham)

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St. Mary of the Assumption from the southeast (2017)

St. Mariä Himmelfahrt is a Roman Catholic church in the Karpfham district of Bad Griesbach in the Rottal , built in the 1470s. It is the parish church of the same parish , which together with the parishes Holy Family (Bad Griesbach) , Holy Trinity (St. Salvator), St. Valentin (Reutern) and St. John the Baptist (Weng) the Pfarrverband Bad Griesbach in the deanery Pocking ( Diocese of Passau ) forms. The church was added to the list of architectural monuments in Bavaria under No. D-2-75-124-104 .

history

The first church in Karpfham could have existed as early as the 8th century after the foundation of the Passau diocese in 739 and the establishment of a network of churches and pastoral care offices. In a document from the first half of the 11th century, when Bishop Berengar expanded the parish system with permanent parishes in the diocese due to the growing population, Karpfham was named as a "parish", in which viticulture was also practiced. Karpfham is one of the oldest parish institutions in the Diocese of Passau and also included the area of ​​the later outsourced parishes of Griesbach and Weng . The first pastor known by name ( parrochianus ) is attested to by pilgrims around 1180 when he appeared as a witness in a documented legal process.

Bishop Reginmar (1121–1138) transferred the parish rights in Karpfham to the Passau cathedral chapter , which as a legal person was the actual pastor. Pastoral care in the parish was provided by a paid vicar appointed by the cathedral chapter . The incorporation of the parish to the cathedral chapter is on April 10, 1179 by Pope Alexander III. and in 1182 by Pope Lucius III. approved. The parish of Karpfham was apparently wealthy and owned many properties. Multiple were higher clergy pastor in Karpfham, the Canon Otto von ink Elsen to Söldenau († 1340), brother of Vice cathedral at the Rott Schweiker I. Tuschl of Söldenau . Her nephew Heinrich Tuschl founded an “eternal mass” in Karpfham in 1376 . Karpfham was the destination of a pilgrimage to the Blessed Mother Mary from the 13th to the 15th century , which in the late 13th century led to the construction of a larger, late Romanesque church, of which the lower part of the tower has been preserved.

In 1550 Weng and in 1634 Griesbach were raised to dependent parish vicariates until they were spun off as independent parishes from the mother parish of Karpfham in 1807 and 1805, respectively. In 1648 Karpfham became a pastor again from a beneficiary of the cathedral chapter in Passau, the pastor of which was freely appointed by the Passau bishop. In the following years, priests from Austria were often pastors in Karpfham.

From 1864 to 1964 there was a monastery and a school for the English Misses next to the church , the buildings of which now serve as the rectory. The fourteen helper chapel, built around 1500, was an institute chapel. Today the parish of Karpfham has about 1200 Catholics. The parish area also includes the spa area of ​​Bad Griesbach, where in 1991/92 an ecumenical pastoral care center with the ecumenical Emmaus church was established.

Construction and equipment

Today's church at Rottalstrasse 26 in the center of Karpfham was built in the 1470s as a late Gothic single-nave vaulted building with partially retracted buttresses in an east-west orientation , which was added to the north of the church tower of the previous church from the late 13th century. The nave hall with tracery windows has four bays , a length of about 40 m, a width of about 12 m and a three-axis gallery on the west side. According to the dates on the building, the nave was built in 1470, the side chapel in 1473, the walls of the choir with a 5/8 end in 1476 and the vaulting in 1477 by master builder Michael Sallinger, who also built the Kößlarn fortified church . The choir vault, designed as an eight-pointed star, is probably inspired by the choir of the monastery church of St. Maria and Markus in Reichenau-Mittelzell , in the vault of the nave with plant tendril paintings from the time of origin, influences of the Vienna Cathedral School can be seen. From 1730 to 1737 the church was furnished in baroque style, partly by the sculptor Wenzeslaus Jorhan, who lives in Griesbach . The tower had an onion hood from 1707 , but was given its pointed helmet in 1873 as part of the regotization of the church . Also in the 19th century the sacristy and the Lourdes chapel were added to the north side .

In front of the south portal with richly profiled walls and branched wrought iron fittings is a vestibule with a late Gothic vault; the coronation of Mary by the Trinity is depicted in the tympanum above the portal , made in the late 15th century. The marble stoup dates from the 18th century.

In the choir arch there is a large late Gothic crucifix from the second half of the 15th century. The high altar , like the two side altars and the pulpit , came into the church as part of the regotization and was executed by Anselm Sickinger from Munich from 1854–67 based on a design by Leonhard Schmidtner from Landshut . It has the shape of a Gothic winged altar , which in the altar shrine, according to the church patronage , shows the Ascension of Mary in the circle of the apostles, above it Moses and two prophets . Above the shrine there is a plastic representation of the coronation of Mary by God the Father , God the Son and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. The altar wings contain scenes from the life of the Blessed Mother Mary. The program of figures on the left side altar with Maria and her parents Anna and Joachim identifies it as a “clan altar”, the right altar is dedicated to St. Stephen . Both side altars also show several saints and on the outside of the wings, which can be seen during the Passion , scenes from the passion of Christ .

Four reliefs from the earliest winged altar relief from the pilgrimage church with depictions of the life of Mary, created around 1525, now hang on both sides of the choir walls. They were brought to Passau by Bishop Heinrich von Hofstätter in 1866 and were returned to Karpfham in 2003.

The main altar is by Curt Porzky and was created in 1974. The pews offer seating for 200 people and have had neo-Gothic cheeks since 1975. The five bells have a total weight of 5379 kg.

Web links

Commons : Mariae Himmelfahrt (Karpfham, Bad Griesbach im Rottal)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kath. Pfarramt Karpfham, Rev. Alois Anetseder (Ed.): Mariä Himmelfahrt Karpfham. 2007 (Text: Oswin Rutz) [1] , p. 14f.
  2. ↑ bistum-passau.de: Pfarrverband Bad Griesbach
  3. ↑ Kath. Pfarramt Karpfham, Rev. Alois Anetseder (Ed.): Mariä Himmelfahrt Karpfham. 2007 (Text: Oswin Rutz) [2] , p. 14f.
  4. ↑ bistum-passau.de: Pfarrverband Bad Griesbach

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 50 ″  E