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.
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.
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 .
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