Parish Schwindkirchen
The Catholic parish of Schwindkirchen is one of the old Bavarian original parishes . It is likely to have originated in the early High Middle Ages , exact documents are missing, but Schwindkirchen 775 is first mentioned as a church location. It cannot be proven which churches belonged to the current branches in addition to the parish, but it must have been five to ten more.
The branches next to the main Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary , which have been part of the St. Wolfgang-Schwindkirchen-Schönbrunn Parish Association, which has existed since the 1990s, are: St. Johann Evangelist Wasentegernbach, St. Katharina Monastery Moosen, St. Margereth Grüngiebing, St. Laurentius Armstorf, St. Cross Mainbach, St. Coloman St. Koloman and St. Kastulus Oberschiltern.
From 1575 to 1903, in addition to his priestly duties, the pastor ran a farm in the rectory for self-sufficiency. The preserved typical economic rectory still bears witness to this.
Parish Church of the Assumption
Today's church building was erected in 1782/83 by the Munich court architect Leonhard Matthäus Gießl in place of a previous Gothic building, from which the Spitzhelm church tower was taken over . A church was built in the transitional style from late Rococo to early classicism . The nave has three bays with bevels to the choir and has a slatted vault and the choir has two bays with a semicircular end. The stucco work was done by court plasterer Franz Xaver Feichtmayr the Younger and the ceiling paintings were made by court painter Christian Wink . The way of the cross was made by the court painter FI Oefele, the frame of which comes from the old church. The high altar was created by Anton Fackler (Dorfen), the sculptural work for it comes from Christian Jorhan the Elder from Landshut. The nave fresco shows the Annunciation and the Coronation in the choir. The high altar picture, taken from the old church, shows the Assumption of Mary. The side altars were made by Chr. Jorhan the Elder. Elder
Branches
St. Johann Evangelist Wasentegernbach . The small village church is a late Gothic building from the late 15th century with a tall, slender tower that was converted to Baroque style in 1768. Inside it has an early Rococo high altar and exposed Renaissance frescoes on the ribbed vault.
St. Catherine Monastery Moosen . The Renaissance church attached to the south of the former castle is kept in the classicist style inside. The church is equipped with a late baroque high altar, the Morawitzky coat of arms on the choir arch and a silver shrine with a gesture of Christ.
St. Margereth Grüngiebing . The church belonged to the parish of Obertaufkirchen until 1878 and with it to 1817 to the diocese of Salzburg. The year the Gothic church was built is unknown. The rotunda was very popular in the 18th century and is based on early Baroque Italian models. The tower was re-listed in 1871. As a result of secularization, candlesticks, canon tables, tabernacles and the evangelists are likely to have come to the church and represent special pieces of jewelry.
St. Laurentius Armstorf . The original Gothic structure was thoroughly restored after Armstorf Castle was rebuilt in 1631. In the new altar, donated by Hans-Joachim Westacher zu Armstorf, two Gothic figures from around 1500 were inserted: St. Katharina on the right and St. Stephanus on the left. The altarpiece of St. Magdalena is on loan from the Staatl. Gallery, arranged by director G. v. Dillis (* 1759 in Grüngiebing t 1841 Munich). It came into the church with the renovation in 1817. The tower was rebuilt in 1816.
Hl. Kreuz Mainbach The church was probably built by the nobles von Prannt auf Mainbach and Winkel in the 15th century. In the vault there is the coat of arms of the builders and that of the Counts of Haag.
St. Coloman St. Koloman . The late Gothic church was built in the 16th century as a forest chapel and dedicated to St. Koloman consecrated as the altarpiece from 1720 shows, which may indicate an early traffic route. The building has a gable roof tower on the west side. The church was redesigned in baroque style around 1678. The Sebastianialtar goes back to the time of the plague, in which a plague cemetery is suspected around Koloman. The late Gothic figure of Mary is also remarkable.
St. Kastulus Oberschiltern . The building, erected around 1625 in the late Gothic style, is almost a chapel in terms of size. In the 3-yoke interior with ⅜-end it has a weak cross vault with rod-shaped ribs. In the west the little church has a pointed helmet roof turret.
Other larger sacred buildings
Andrebauernkapelle Oberlohe , this church was built in 1991/92 after a votive vow externally in the Gothic style. It represents a stately chapel with an open vestibule, whose choir is designed as a Marian grotto.
Chapel in Armstorf . In the former Armstorf Castle Park there is an approximately 6.5 m long baroque-oriented chapel with a roof turret from the 19th century.
Rectory
It represents a typical economic rectory, the main building of which is a modernized baroque building. Agriculture in the rectory was first mentioned in 1575. The barn is the largest building in the parsonage, it was first used as a tithing barn. 1771–1773 New construction of the grain barn with horse and cowshed. In 1903 agriculture was given up. 1989–1991 the parish hall "Wolfgang-Meier-Haus" is built into the shell of the renovated barn.