Maria Stern (Neukirchen am Simssee)
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The pilgrimage church Maria Stern in Neukirchen am Simssee in Upper Bavaria is a branch of the parish Riedering. Neukirchen am Simssee is part of Riedering in the Rosenheim district . The listed church building is a late Gothic building from 1442 that was extended in the 18th century and modified in baroque style.
Building and pilgrimage history
The place was first mentioned in 924 as Niuunchircha , based on the patronage of John the Baptist , it is assumed that the previous building could have served as a baptistery for the wide area in the Middle Ages. From the beginning, Neukirchen was a subsidiary of Riedering. Today's church was built around 1442 with a three-bay nave and a two-bay choir with a three-eighth end , as well as a choir flank tower. A local legend says that when today's church was rebuilt, the building site was said to have been indicated by a bird with a bloody chip in its beak. On February 1, 1710, the miraculous image of Maria Stern was transferred from its original location in the Riedering parish church to Neukirchen in a solemn procession and attached to the high altar. The painting was purchased by the Riederinger Corpus Christi brotherhood in 1676 for their moves.
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In 1730, due to the large influx of pilgrims, two yokes were added to the nave to the west. When the interior of the church was redesigned in the early Rococo style of 1750, the church tower was given a contemporary double onion dome instead of the gable roof. There is a pictorial representation on the votive panel for Joseph Hamberger from 1786. This crowning of the tower was replaced in 1874 by today's Rautenspitz helmet.
Renovations to the church took place in 1844, 1880–1893, 1946 and 1977/78.
Architecture and equipment
Due to the extension, the church shows itself as an elongated structure with an undivided exterior. The nave has five yokes and on the south side on the penultimate yoke a preceding sign . On the north side, opposite the sacristy, is the pointed helmet tower.
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Inside, a richly stuccoed curved choir arch separates the nave from the chancel. The west gallery has an equally artfully curved parapet. The barrel cap barrels in the church are almost completely decorated with frescoes, with a single painting on the ceiling of the nave.
Furnishing
In the center of the splendid high altar with rocaille carvings (1757) with double column construction is the miraculous image of Maria Stern . On the sides between the columns are Saints John the Baptist (left) and John the Evangelist (right). God the Father is enthroned with the globe in the altar extension. The figures come from the Rosenheimer Blasius Mass and were on the high altar from 1672.
The left side altar and the pulpit opposite were created in 1946/47 on the occasion of the renovation and were made in the style of a rococo stucco altar . In the altar niche there is a figure of Joseph and below it in the cafeteria an annunciation group from the late Baroque period. A baptismal carving of Christ from the 18th century adorns the baptismal font lid, which was embedded in the pulpit substructure.
The ceiling frescoes, which Joseph Adam Mölck created in 1750, show the sermon of John the Baptist before Herod on the Jordan in the choir , surrounded by medallion images of Saints Joseph, Peter, Augustine and Franz Xavier. The monumental nave ceiling fresco depicts five scenes from the life of St. Franz Xavier.
Noteworthy are the votive pictures from the 18th to the 20th century that were installed over the entire nave wall above the pews. The oldest dates from 1711. During the renovation period from 1880–1893, the organ, the neo-Romanesque church stalls and the Way of the Cross were created.
literature
Josef Wolf: The churches of the parish Riedering , Christian Art in Bavaria No. 4. Verlag St. Peter Salzburg, 1999. P. 9–15.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 47.6 " N , 12 ° 13 ′ 47.8" E