Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception (Ingolstadt)

The church in Ingolstadt

The Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception is the village church of Ingolstadt , a district of the Giebelstadt market in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg . The church with the address Ludwig-Bauer-Straße 14 is a monument of Giebelstadt .

history

In the place of today's church there was a no longer preserved fortified church . The old village church was demolished under Prince-Bishop Karl Philipp von Greiffenklau because it was dilapidated. Balthasar Neumann built the new church between 1751 and 1753 . It was inaugurated in 1753, the year of his death.

The tower has a constricted onion dome and a tower cross from the Würzburg locksmith Johann Georg Oegg . It stands south in the central axis of the nave . The choir faces north, the sacristy is built on its east side. The high altar is a work by Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera , as is a crucifix in the church. The side altars were built around 1700 and come from the Tückelhausen monastery . On the left side altar you can see a picture of St. Burkard , on the right a picture of Jesus , painted by Andreas Leimgrub. In the church there are also three tombs of the Geyer von Giebelstadt family from 1570 and 1602. The baptismal font was donated in 1582 by Konrad Geyer and his wife Margaretha von Sternberg . The stucco ceiling created Balthasar Neumann. The organ was installed on the southern gallery .

Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia, Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00359-2 , p. 398