St. Aegidius (Malching)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Aegidius is a late Gothic hall church in Malching in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau . It belongs to the Rotthalmünster parish association in the Pocking deanery of the Passau diocese .
History and architecture
The late Gothic church was built in 1456 according to a year painted on the west of the choir arch with a master shield next to it. The top of the tower was built in 1884/1885. The interior was renovated in 1972 and the exterior in 1984.
The outer masonry is carefully put together from tuff stone blocks and is structured by a circumferential base and the coffin cornice. The central parts of the buttresses are placed over a corner.
The interior is illuminated by the two-lane windows with original tracery . The tower attached to the south of the chancel has a neo-Gothic fifth floor with a pointed helmet between corner turrets. The surprisingly spacious interior is proportioned relatively steeply for the region. The four-bay nave is connected to a barely retracted, two-bay choir with a five- eighth end. In the nave, strongly bevelled shield arch positions with presented semicircular services structure the wall, in the choir the shield arch positions are profiled with throat and staff. In the nave there is a pointed barrel vault with simply figured net ribs and parietal diamonds. The choir vault is very similar to the ship's vault, however the parapet diamonds are not crossed by the belt ribs as in the ship. The color scheme of the room-dividing scaffolding was renovated in 1972. The crossings of the ribs are marbled and decorated with fine tendrils. A ribbon of ruffles is painted on the east side of the choir arch.
The two-storey west gallery with curved parapets was built in 1773 and thereafter. In stucco cartouches, pictures of the apostles are arranged in half-length with Mary as the queen of the apostles and Christ as Salvator mundi in the middle. A heavily overpainted fresco in the nave, dated 1603, shows the protective mantle Madonna over the village of Malching. The church is still shown there with the simple Gothic tower end in the middle of the churchyard fortifications.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic high altar from 1903 is signed with the names of the artists Sebastian Höfele and Xaver Zattler. The carving probably comes from Sebastian Höfele from Pfarrkirchen, the frame from Franz Xaver Zattler from Wurmannsquick. The limestone baptismal font dates from the middle of the 15th century and is provided with tracery panels and frieze on the hemispherical basin. A carved figure of St. Sebastian dates from around 1480. An early baroque crucifix shows the uncovered original version. On the north side of the choir there are numerous votive pictures of the former pilgrimage to the “Wies-Heiland” and the “Mother of the Beautiful Love”. An electronium is available for church music .
Four bronze bells form the ring. Three bells with the chimes f 1 , g 1 and b 1 date from 1949/1950, one bell with the chime es 3 from 1748.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria II - Lower Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 , pp. 367–368.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ database Bavaria online. Accessed August 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Information about the bell on the website of the Diocese of Passau. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 45 ″ N , 13 ° 11 ′ 16 ″ E