St. Agidius (Dietfurt an der Altmühl)
St. Giles is the parish church of Dietfurt an der Altmühl and St. Giles consecrated. The patronage is celebrated on September 1st. In terms of church politics, the parish belongs to the diocese of Eichstätt .
Building history of the church
A church in Dietfurt was first mentioned in a document in 1144, but no more precise information is available. Around the year 1400, the church was probably replaced by a new Gothic building, of which the 60 m high tower is still preserved today. The nave itself was rebuilt in the 1730s due to the poor state of construction according to plans by the Eichstätter court building director Gabriel de Gabrieli . The masonry of the Gothic church was used, it was raised and the nave was extended. The consecration took place on September 24, 1736, and it took 36 years to complete the interior. The last major renovation took place in 1998.
inner space
The interior of the church has a length of 32 m and shows the structure with double bars typical of the master builder Gabrieli. The nave and choir have mirror vaults with delicate stucco. The baroque ceiling paintings (painter unknown) were renovated and partly repaired by Carl von Waibel in 1863. After being repainted in 1884, they were only exposed again during a major renovation in 1964. One of the two large pictures shows Jesus as a healer, the other is dedicated to the patron saint of the church, St. Aegidius and shows an old city view with the mayor sacrificing the hearts of the people of Dietfurt.
The mighty high altar dominates the interior. It was built in 1737 by the Eichstätter altar builder Johann Jakob Bochler. The four larger-than-life figures of saints (Florian, Willibald, Walburga, Wendelin) were not erected until 1754/55. On the high altar picture, St. Aegidius can be seen with a hind in his hermitage in the French Camargue. The current tabernacle was only installed in 1964 and is no longer part of the original baroque furnishings of the church.
The two most valuable pieces of equipment in the church are the two worshiping angels next to the tabernacle. They were created by the well-known Rococo sculptor Ignaz Günther , who was born in nearby Altmannstein. In 1768 the two angels were given to the Dietfurt Church by a Munich goldsmith.
Both side altars were also erected by Johann Jakob Bochler in 1739. While the picture of the Marian altar comes from the Baroque period, the picture of the Catherine altar was only added in 1929. The pulpit is the work of the Parsberg sculptor Hans Georg Waller from 1771, the crucifixion group on the south wall of the nave comes from the Gothic church. In the side chapel on the north side there are two altars: the Sacred Heart Altar, like the pulpit, was created by Hans Georg Waller from Parsberg. The Sebastian altar from 1751 was made by a Dietfurt carpenter, the altarpiece, which shows Dietfurt with the plague patron Sebastian, was privately owned until 1964 and only then came to its present location.
organ
An organ built by Munich organ builder Antonius Beyer in 1750 was sold to Wolfsbuch , where it was installed in the local St. Andrew's Church in 1910. The present organ in the Dietfurt parish church was built in 1974 by the organ building company Klais from Bonn. It has 22 sounding stops (divided into 2 manuals and pedal ), a mechanical performance and an electrical stop action .
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Bells
Chimes
The bell tower of the parish church houses a seven-voiced bells, four of bells had to be recast in the 1989th Before that there were six cast steel bells from 1947/48 (tone sequence: es 1 –f 1 –g 1 –b 1 –c 2 –es 2 ). The largest of these bells can be seen on the south side of the church, another (chime c 2 ) rings in the nearby Schweinkofen together with an old bronze bell, two others were made available to a community in Romania and two more are privately owned.
In 1989/90 the cast steel bells were replaced by new bronze bells and the two bronze bells returned from the war were integrated into the new chime. The large Aegidius bell is the deepest bronze bell in the Eichstätt diocese after the Trinity bell in Eichstätt Cathedral (strike tone a 0 , weight 5,300 kg).
For the tabular description of today's bell:
| No. | Surname | Nominal |
Weight (kg) |
Diameter (mm) |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
| 1 | Aegidius bell | h 0 −9 | 3280 | 1667 | 1989 | Karlsruhe bell and art foundry |
| 2 | Marienbell | c sharp 1 −9 | 2220 | 1480 | 1989 | Karlsruhe bell and art foundry |
| 3 | Peace bell | e 1 −12 | 1510 | 1288 | 1989 | Karlsruhe bell and art foundry |
| 4th | Swedish bell | f sharp 1 −6 | 1100 | 1180 | 1619 | Dionys Frei, Munich |
| 5 | Paternoster bell | a 1 −2 | 370 | 860 | 1748 | Joseph Neumaier, Stadtamhof |
| 6th | Sebastian Bell | h 1 −9 | 426 | 849 | 1989 | Karlsruhe bell and art foundry |
| 7th | Death Bell (Franz Xaver) | approx. g 2 | 65 | 525 | 1725 | Martin Neumaier, Stadtamhof |
Ringing order
The ringing order is quite different. For the Angelus , the Mary's bell rings at 5:45 a.m., 12 p.m. and - depending on the season - between 5 and 9 p.m. The evening Angelus is followed by the Sebastian bell in memory of the deceased, and on Thursday the Aegidius bell in memory of Christ's agony on the Mount of Olives. Sundays and public holidays are rung in the day before at 3 p.m. with the bell for the parish service. This also applies to bank holidays during the week. On Sunday there is a ringing 30 minutes before the beginning of the mass (usually with the largest bell of the motif intended for the following service), 15 minutes before the beginning of the mass there is a ringing.
In the following overview, only the chime motif for the parish service is given on Sundays and public holidays; motifs with a reduced number of bells and / or pitch are normally provided for the evening mass.
The ringing for Vespers on Christmas, Easter, Whitsun, on the day of the patronage and the church consecration takes place with the same motif as for the parish church service, but in a particularly festive way: First, the corresponding bells ring one after the other, followed by the common ringing of the bells.
| occasion |
Number of bells |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th |
| Christmas mass , Christmas Day , New Year's Eve , Epiphany ("Epiphany"), Easter Vigil (Gloria / Excerpt), Easter Sunday , Ascension Day , Pentecost Sunday , Corpus Christi , St. Willibald (diocesan patron), St. Egidius (church patron), first communion , confirmation , Primiz | 6th | h 0 | cis 1 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 |
| New Year (Solemnity of the Mother of God), Palm Sunday , May 1st (Solemnity of the patroness of Bavaria), Trinity Sunday , Assumption of Mary, Parish Fair , All Saints' Day , Christ the King Sunday | 5 | h 0 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 | |
| Sundays of Advent | 3 | cis 1 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | |||
| Sundays of Christmas and Easter , St. Stephen's Day , Sebastian Brotherhood Festival, Easter Monday, Guardian Angel Sunday , Thanksgiving Day , Rosary Festival | 5 | cis 1 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 | |
| Lent Sundays | 3 | cis 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | |||
| Sundays in the annual cycle | 4th | e 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 | ||
| High strength on working days | 4th | cis 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 | ||
| Holidays on working days | 4th | e 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 | ||
| Working days | 3 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | h 1 | |||
| Ash Wednesday , grave blessing (All Saints' Day) | 3 | h 0 | cis 1 | e 1 | |||
| Parish request (All Souls' Day) | 3 | h 0 | f sharp 1 | h 1 | |||
| Year-end fair | 4th | h 0 | cis 1 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | ||
| Penance service | 3 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | h 1 | |||
| requiem | 3 | e 1 | a 1 | h 1 | |||
| baptism | 2 | cis 1 | e 1 | ||||
| wedding | 4th | cis 1 | e 1 | f sharp 1 | a 1 | ||
| May devotion | 2 | f sharp 1 | a 1 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eichstätter Kurier of September 19, 2015, p. 34
literature
- Dietfurt. Churches of the parish (Schnell and Steiner Church Guide No. 1211), 2nd edition, Regensburg 2000.
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 '8 " N , 11 ° 35' 16.8" E