Assumption of Mary (Prien am Chiemsee)

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Basic data
Denomination Roman Catholic
place Prien am Chiemsee , Germany
diocese Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
Patronage 15th of August
Building description
Architectural style Baroque
Construction type single-nave hall church
Function and title

Parish church of the parish Prien am Chiemsee

Coordinates 47 ° 51 '20.8 "  N , 12 ° 20' 37.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 51 '20.8 "  N , 12 ° 20' 37.6"  E

The Church of the Assumption of Mary is the Roman Catholic parish church of Prien am Chiemsee .

Prehistory of the church location

Model of the tower displacement in the Prien local history museum

A parish came into being in Chiemsee when the town was founded in the 12th century. The first Prien pastor named around 1180/90 was an "Eberwinus plebanus de Prienne". There is no evidence of structural remains of the associated Romanesque church , but it was probably a little further west of the current building. It was replaced by a late Gothic three-nave church in the second quarter of the 15th century .

From around 1510, this building underwent extensive changes that can no longer be fully explored today, a late Gothic red marble memorial stone from 1517 from a Salzburg or Wasserburg sculptor's workshop (today at the Prien baptistery) with the coat of arms of the Herrenchiemsee Provost Rudbert Puetinger (1496 to 1520 Provost) and the two family coats of arms of the parish vicar at that time, the Herrenchiemsee canon Michael Wider from Prien, indicates, however, extensive and extensive work.

As part of a visitation trip , the church was consecrated on April 11, 1518 by Bishop Berthold Pürstinger, which underlines the scope of the previous work.

Building history of today's church

After the Thirty Years War , the church was refurbished in a baroque style from 1652 to 1659 . For practical reasons, the number of two side altars was retained in the existing building, a Catherine altar in the north and an Erasmus or 14 Holy Helper altar in the south aisle. Both, however, received new superstructures, and the high altar was completely rebuilt for the enormous sum of 2,000 fl . In 1708/09 the church tower at that time received a new, 40 meter high, timbered spire. Only about a quarter of a century later, however, the church space turned out to be too limited for the growing congregation, and considerable structural damage came to light, not least due to the burning of the great holy grave due to the negligence of the sacristan in 1724. The then parish vicar Floridus Rappel then drove plans for an extensive renovation that was almost like a new building.

From 1734 a third, baroque church was built in the same place. The new building partly reused the lower area of ​​the outer walls of the Gothic church. However, the walls were rebuilt from window height and the pillars inside were removed, so that a large hall was created that managed without supports. The church was extended by 8 meters to the west and now has a new tower in the immediate vicinity of the previous one. In order to avoid the demolition and renewed tidying up of the large spire, it was raised in 1736 according to a concept by the master carpenter Christian Raab (1687 - 1768), rolled on rollers and on a special, timbered platform spanning both towers to the new tower and opened this lowered. This "Prien tower shift" was considered a technical masterpiece. The old tower was then demolished.

The main initiator of the new church building was the local pastor Floridus Rappel . He was also a member of the Herrenchiemsee monastery , which provided the pastors in Prien. In 1736 he became provost of the monastery and thus had a lot more funds available than before. As a result, the church was given a stone vault instead of the originally planned wooden vault . In addition, the furnishings of the building, which was completed in 1738, were splendid.

Restorations were carried out in 1934, 1961, 1987–1989 and on the spire in 2015.

building

Interior view to the east

Today the church presents itself as a baroque hall church . In the west rises the 72 meter high church tower with a pointed helmet. On the other hand, there are small towers with onion domes on the roofs of the two sacristies in the east . These correspond in shape to the tower of the neighboring baptistery .

The very bright interior is designed in the basic color white. The walls are structured with flat pillars. The choir area has moved in opposite the main nave. In the west there is a two-storey gallery that also carries the organ .

Furnishing

Ceiling fresco: Johann Baptist Zimmermann , the naval battle of Lepanto (detail)
Ceiling fresco: Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Pope Pius V.

Frescoes

The ceiling frescoes by Johann Baptist Zimmermann , which he designed between 1738 and 1740 with the help of two of his sons, are the most famous furnishings of the church. The Trinity and the four evangelists are represented in the choir, while the naval battle of Lepanto is in the nave . Mary is depicted there as the rosary queen in the middle and on the side facing the choir Pope Pius V , who prays the rosary for a successful outcome of the battle in favor of the Holy League . The theme was chosen because a rosary brotherhood had been meeting in the parish church since 1639 and the victory of the Holy League at the Battle of Lepanto was attributed to the power of the rosary.

Other equipment

The main altar and both side altars were made from Untersberg marble by Georg Doppler between 1738 and 1740 . According to the patronage , the painting on the main altar depicts the Assumption of Mary . It is a copy made by Matthias Schöfftlhueber in 1654/55 of a painting by Peter Paul Rubens in the Catholic Church of the Holy Cross in Augsburg . It was taken over from the main altar of the previous church. The stucco draperies above the side altars are also by Johann Baptist Zimmermann . The paintings he created for the side altars are now lost. They were exchanged for new altar paintings in the Nazarene style in the 19th century .

The main picture of the Catherine Altar comes from the Munich history painter Johann Michael Echter , that of the Rosary Altar from the painter Franz Xaver Gaßner . The upper pictures are, however, still the originals by Johann Baptist Zimmermann , from whom the pulpit and the stations of the cross originate.

Organs

Organ on the west gallery

Organ by Gerald Woehl

Today's organ prospectus by Georg Anton Kidl from Rosenheim goes back to the installation of an organ by the renowned Salzburg organ builder Johann Christoph Egedacher from 1738 for the new construction of the parish church in 1735/38.

After various expansions, conversions and new constructions by various organ builders, Gerald Woehl added a new Rückpositiv case to the historical organ case , which is advanced by approx. 1.5 m from the main case, and built a new organ with 50 registers on three into the organ body Manuals and pedal on . The organ was blessed on October 15, 1995. The console is in the middle in front of the main housing, which houses the main work and the register of the small pedal. The swell is behind it, the pipes of the grand pedal are housed on the left and right of the main housing. The instrument has a symphonic wind system, which is fed from 8 bellows; they are located outside the instrument below the choir pedestal to the left of the organ. The action mechanism is mechanical (hanging action), the stop action is electrical. The coupling is mechanical. The instrument is equipped with an electronic typesetting system and a register crescendo. The bassoon and trumpet registers in the main work (No. 23 and 24) are expanded to a 4 and can be played as extensions in the 8 'and 4' positions, as well as in the pedal via transmissions.

The console of the new Woehl organ in the parish church of Mariä Himmelfahrt Prien.
I Rückpositiv C – a 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Copula 8th'
3. Salicet 8th'
4th Praestant 4 ′
5. Dumped 4 ′
6th Octave 2 ′
7th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
9. Flageolet 1'
10. Mixture IV
11. Basset horn 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C – a 3
12. Drone 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Reed flute 8th'
15th flute 8th'
16. Viol 8th'
17th Octave 4 ′
18th Hollow flute 4 ′
19th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Super octave 2 ′
21st Cornett II-V
22nd Mixture V-VI
23. bassoon 16 ′
24. Trumpet 8th'
25th Clarino (Extension 24) 4 ′
26th Bassoon (extension 23) 8th'
III Swell C – a 3
27. Cor de nuit 8th'
28. Flauto traverso 8th'
29 Viola da gamba 8th'
30th Vox coelestis 8th'
31. viola 4 ′
32. flute 4 ′
33. Piccolo 2 ′
34. Harmonia aeth. III-V
35. horn 8th'
36. oboe 8th'
37. Vox humana 8th'
38. Clairon harm. 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
39. Drone 32 ′
40. Contrabass 16 ′
41. Thought 16 ′
42. Octavbass 8th'
43. cello 8th'
44. Dumped 8th'
45. Octave 4 ′
46. trombone 16 ′
47. Bass trumpet 8th'
48. Tenor trumpet (Transmission 24) 8th'
49. Clarino (Transmission 25) 4 ′
50. Bassoon (Transmission 26) 8th'
  • Coupling : III / I, I / II, II / II (sub-octave coupling), III / II (also as sub-octave coupling), I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : Setter system with 11264 combinations (new setter system 2020), sequencer forwards and backwards (thumb bar, pistons, hand sequencer), crescendo step (2 different programmable crescendos), mechanical swell step with display (0-9), coupling as register buttons and pistons (without sub-octave coupling) in interaction
  • Remarks:
  1. ↑ overblowing from f 1 .
  2. ↑ overblowing from f 0 .
  3. ↑ overblowing from c 1 .
  4. ↑ overblowing from c 0 .
  5. ↑ from c 2 double the cup length.
  6. ↑ from c 1 double cup length.
  7. ↑ metal

Chest organ in the presbytery

The Jann chest organ in the presbytery of the Church of the Assumption of Mary (Prien am Chiemsee)

The parish church in Prien has a portable chest positive from Georg Jann (1983) with 5 registers.

Manual C – d 3

Bass: C – b 0 / treble: h 0 –d 3

Reed flute B / D 8th'
Flute B / D 4 ′
Principal B / D 2 ′
Fifth B / D 2 2/3 '
third 1 3/5 '

Bells

Today's 6 bells (nominal tones b 0 , des 1 , es 1 , f 1 , a flat 1 , b 1 ) of the church were cast in 1952, 1959 and 1998. The largest weighs 2805 kg, the smallest weighs 290 kg.

literature

  • Karl J. Aß, Peter von Bomhard u. Josef Preis: The churches of the parish of Prien. = Schnell Kunstführer 49th 4th edition, Regensburg 1998.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl J. Aß: Consecration for the Gothic parish church in Prien. In: OVB online. Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, April 11, 2018, accessed on April 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Adolf von Bomhard et al .: Prien am Chiemsee - A home book . Verlag der Marktgemeinde Prien am Chiemsee, Prien am Chiemsee 1958, p. 351 .
  3. ↑ a b Aß u. a., p. 3.
  4. ↑ Karl-J Aß, Culture Commissioner Markt Prien: Heimatmuseum Prien am Chiemsee with the historical gallery of the Chiemsee painters . The Prien tower shift 1736. Ed .: Prien Marketing GmbH. 2015.
  5. ↑ Aß u. a., p. 3f.
  6. ↑ Aß u. a., p. 4.
  7. ↑ Aß u. a., pp. 4-6.
  8. ↑ Aß u. a., p. 6f.
  9. ↑ a b Aß u. a., p. 7.
  10. ^ Adolf von Bomhard et al .: Prien am Chiemsee - A home book . Verlag der Marktgemeinde Prien am Chiemsee, Prien am Chiemsee 1958, p. 355 .
  11. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

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