Maria Altenburg (Altenburg)
The Maria Altenburg branch church ( Our Lady in Altenburg or Mary's Birth ) is a pilgrimage church built in the Middle Ages in Altenburg, a district of Moosach in Bavaria . It stands high above the Doblbach on the site of the castle stable (Altenburg 35), which was abandoned early on . The listed church belongs to the Moosach Parish Association in the Ebersberg deanery of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .
history
The late Gothic church built on the site of the Altenburg castle chapel (before 1250) was first mentioned in 1391. The consecration took place in 1405. A first structural change was made in 1467, when the church received a new choir and the southern pointed arch portal, which is now walled up. Maria Altenburg was baroque in 1711 and furnished with rich stucco and fresco paintings. The church was restored in 1975 and 1993/1994.
Building description
The church consists of a four-bay, flat-roofed nave , a retracted two- bay polygonal choir , an attached two-storey sacristy and a southern flank tower with a gable roof . Consisting of stucco marble -made high altar with a Gothic Virgin Mary dates back to 1719 and has been revised 1775th On the side altars from the middle of the 17th century there are late Baroque carved figures of Saints Anna and Joachim . A valuable late Gothic carving group on the south wall of the choir from 1480 depicts Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene as a gardener. The triumphal cross on the choir arch dates from the same time . The frescoes, created by the Tyrolean Johann Anton Gumpp , show the representation of the Assumption and the Coronation of Mary .
A way of the cross leads up to the church. There are regular Catholic Sunday services .
Specialty
The pilgrimage site Altenburg is also included in the cycle of 14 pilgrimage sites in Kurbayern, which are hanging as oil paintings in the upper church of the Bürgersaalkirche in Munich.
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. 14–15.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Request to Maria Altenburg (www.st-martin-zorneding.de, June 2011) ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Reclam's art guide: Bavaria South. 9. Reclam, 1970, p. 251.
- ↑ moosach.info
- ↑ https://www.mmkbuergersaal.de/buergersaalkirche/oberkirche/wallfahrtsorte.html
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 7.4 " N , 11 ° 51 ′ 52.7" E