Maria Hilf (Berching)

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Exterior view of the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf from the northeast

The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church Maria Hilf is a small classical church building on the southern outskirts of Berching , a town in the Bavarian district of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

history

The building was built in 1796 by Maria Anna Margaretha Vögele von Berching, dyer's widow and daughter of the Pettenkofer family, using her own resources. She also found her final resting place in the chapel in 1801. In 1796 the church was consecrated by the parish priest Melchior Bößl. Soon afterwards, many pilgrims from near and far came to pray at the copy of the miraculous image of Mariahilf . Numerous votive pictures and other consecration offerings testify to this .

On April 24, 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War , the windows, roof, ceiling and altars of the Maria-Hilf-Kirche were badly damaged due to a nearby blast. The damage was repaired during a renovation that took place immediately afterwards in 1945/46. The little church also received two ceiling frescoes by the Munich church painter Josef Wittmann . From May 26th to June 2nd, 1946, the church's 150th anniversary was celebrated with a solemn procession from the parish church of the Assumption in the presence of the diocesan bishop Michael Rackl . In 1978 the building was renovated on the outside and in 1985 on the inside. In 1996 the 200th anniversary of the church could be celebrated. Again with the participation of the diocesan bishop Walter Mixa , the image of grace was transferred to the parish church for a festival week, where it was venerated during services and devotions .

description

architecture

The aligned unusually west Saalkirche with drawn, rounded apse is 22 feet long and 9 feet wide. On the east side, it has a column portal based on an ancient model, which is typical of contemporary tastes and which, judging by the style , could have come from the Eichstätt court architect Maurizio Pedetti . A curved gable rises above it . The two-bay long house with arched window openings has a hipped roof . A small roof turret with an onion hood sits above the choir . Inside there are two bells with the notes a 2 and h 2 , which are only rung by hand on rare occasions.

Furnishing

The interior of the church is designed entirely in the style of a late baroque hall church. In the center of the high altar, above the tabernacle , is the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus in her arms . The depiction is a copy of the miraculous image of Mariahilf by Lucas Cranach the Elder , which was painted on wood in the 17th century. On the left side altar there is a crowned figure of the Madonna of the Crescent Moon , again with the baby Jesus on her arm, which is backed with a halo. The right side altar shows a late Gothic group of figures depicting the Lamentation of Christ .

In the middle of the right side wall is the classicist picture of the donor in a heavy baroque frame. It shows how family members of the donors pray kneeling at the Maria-Hilf-Kirche. Above it hovers the miraculous image on a cloud covered with putti . Two votive tablets refer to fire disasters in the city of Berching: one to the fire at the Gredinger Tor on June 17, 1819, in which seven members of the tower family were killed, and another to the “great city fire” of July 17, 1885, in which one Much of the upper market fell to rubble. Other pieces of equipment are portraits of the Holy Mother Anna and St. Ottilia , a statue of St. Cäcilia and an almost life-size sculpture of the Madonna of Fátima , which was donated in 1978 by the Berching Women's Association .

organ

The organ of Maria Hilf in 1895 from that in Nuremberg -based organ builder Joseph Franz Bittner built. The cone chest instrument with pneumatic performance and stop actions comprises a total of nine stops on a manual and pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Viol 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Covered 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th flute 4 ′
7th Mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
8th. Sub bass 16 ′
9. violoncello 08th'

Web links

Commons : Wallfahrtskirche Mariahilf in Berching  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Berching parish: Pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf - history of origin . Online at berching.bistum-eichstaett.de ; accessed on March 6, 2020.
  2. ^ Parish Berching: Maria-Hilf in the course of time . Online at berching.bistum-eichstaett.de ; accessed on March 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Berching, Mariahilf pilgrimage church . Online at www.glockenklaenge.de ; accessed on March 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Berching parish: Pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf - interior and furnishings . Online at berching.bistum-eichstaett.de ; accessed on March 6, 2020.
  5. ^ Organ building Friedrich: Berching, Maria-Hilf-Kirche . Online at orgelbau-friedrich.de ; accessed on March 6, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 43.2 "  N , 11 ° 26 ′ 43.4"  E