St. Michael Castle Chapel (Tittmoning)
The St. Michael Castle Chapel is the Roman Catholic chapel of the castle in Tittmoning (Upper Bavaria). It was rebuilt in 1693 on the eastern side of the castle courtyard. With the consecration in 1694, the building was placed under the protection of the Archangel Michael .
There was probably a small chapel in Tittmoning Castle as early as the 13th century. The Archbishop of Salzburg, Johann Ernst von Thun , had the new building built in 1693. He also had the left choir organ of Salzburg Cathedral moved into the church interior, which was actually too small for that, so that a newer work by the Passau organ builder Schretzer could be installed in Salzburg Cathedral. A mighty altar made of red marble dominates the interior of the chapel. In the center of it, the altarpiece created by Johann Michael Rottmayr shows the Archangel Michael plunging Lucifer into hell. The altar is flanked by two sculptures made of white marble by the Salzburg sculptor Michael Bernhard Mandl . They represent the two archangels Gabriel and Raphael .
literature
- Gotthard Kießling, Dorit Reimann: District of Traunstein (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.22 ). Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2007, ISBN 978-3-89870-364-2 . (not evaluated)
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 37.8 ″ N , 12 ° 45 ′ 48.6 ″ E