Siebenschläferkirche (Rotthof)

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Interior of the Siebenschläferkirche
South side of the church; Roman gravestones built into the church wall, which led to the patronage of the " dormouse ".

The Siebenschläferkirche is a church in Rotthof, a district of Ruhstorf an der Rott in the district of Passau .

The very rare patronage is reminiscent of the dormice of Ephesus . It goes back to two gravestones from Roman times set into the outer wall, which show three or four people. They were wrongly interpreted as dormice in the baroque era.

In 1758 Johann Baptist Modler made the new high altar for the church. Side altars and pulpit followed in 1763/1764. The baroque altar was redesigned with the simplest means (boxes, tuff stone, shells) to create the illusion of a grotto into which colored light penetrates. In this illusionary space, the seven youngsters dream of the artist Modler, who also designed the rest of the furnishings. With this creation, the Rotthofer facility is one of the best of folk rococo art in Bavaria.

Archaeologists deal with the area around the Siebenschläferkirche. Various ancient fragments that were used in church construction refer to the Roman settlement of this area. At the beginning of fundamental renovation work in 2004, several skeletons and Roman gravestones were found again within a very short time in and around the church foundation.

With the help of the latest technology, a completely surprising document could be made visible on the screen. Hidden underground, two earth barriers border a Celtic homestead, which presumably consisted of a manor house, stables and storage buildings, on a stately area the size of almost half a football field.

The 500th anniversary of the consecration of the Siebenschläferkirche in Rotthof took place from June 29th to July 2nd, 2006.

literature

  • Volker Liedke: The dormouse altar in the Catholic Church of Rotthof in the Rottal , in: Ars Bavarica 87 (2004), pp. 119–127
  • Jörg Fassbinder; Mariola Hepa; Andreas Schaflitzl: Rotthof: Roman villa sought, late Hallstatt manor house found , in: Archäologisches Jahr in Bayern 2004, pp. 69–71
  • Walter Wandling; Hartmut Wolff: Grave inscription of L. Veidius Aprilis from Rotthof, Gem. Ruhstorf, Ldkrs. Passau , in Passauer Jahrbuch 48 (2006), pp. 9-16
  • Oswin Rutz: Die Siebenschläferkirche in Rotthof, 1506-2006. Legend, history, art history , Ruhstorf ad Rott 2006

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Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 10.1 ″  E