Heilig Geist Hospital Church (Ingolstadt)
The Catholic hospital church Heilig Geist in Ingolstadt , a town in the Bavarian administrative district of Upper Bavaria , was built on the site of a previous building around 1350 in the Gothic style and served as the church of the hospital founded in 1319 by the later Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria .
architecture
Exterior construction
The facade is divided into large, rectangular glare fields into which high, two-lane tracery windows are cut. The gable is also broken up by glare fields with smaller window openings and crowned by a roof turret.
inner space
The interior is designed as a three-aisled hall and built on a rectangular floor plan. It is divided into six bays and does not have a separate choir . A gallery on which the organ is housed forms the western end .
The ribbed vaults rest on powerful, with Bandelwerk stucco and ring capitals decorated pillars. The ceiling and the gallery parapet are also covered with banded stucco , which - like the frescoed ceilings with their emblematic representations - was made around 1730/40.
Ceiling frescoes
Ceiling frescoes
Ceiling frescoes
Murals
The paintings on the walls and columns date back to the end of the 16th century. Presumably they were attached over late Gothic frescoes, of which only a few remains have survived. The Renaissance paintings were painted over in the 17th century and discovered and re-exposed between 1904 and 1916. Apostles are depicted on the pillars.
Apostle James
Apostle Bartholomew
Apostle Andrew
Furnishing
- The main altar dates from the late 17th century. The altar panel , an oil painting depicting the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, bears the signature of Johann Kaspar Sing and is marked with the year 1697.
- On the north side altar is a wood-carved statue of Mary from 1649. The figures of the four church fathers and St. Barbara in the extract - like the altar - were executed by Melchior Pendel in 1624.
- The figure of St. Mauritius on the south side altar is dated to the 17th century, the figure of St. Nicholas around 1510.
- The baroque pulpit was created in 1696.
- Four bakers' guild poles have been preserved in the church .
Guild pole
Guild pole
Guild pole
Guild pole
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 486-487 .
Web links
- Spitalkirche shines again in old splendor City of Ingolstadt (accessed on July 13, 2015)
Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 43.3 " N , 11 ° 25 ′ 30.9" E