St. Aegidius (Vilseck)
The Catholic parish church of St. Giles is an originally Gothic, Baroque-style hall church in Vilseck in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach . It belongs to the parish of St. Agidius Vilseck in the diocese of Regensburg , was badly damaged by fire in 2013 and reopened in 2015 after extensive renovation. The associated rectory is in the immediate vicinity .
history
The parish of St. Aegidius has been traceable since 1232 and was united with Schlicht at the beginning of the 15th century . Since 1661 it belongs to the diocese of Regensburg, previously to the diocese of Bamberg . According to the inscription on the second northern buttress of the choir, the construction of the Gothic church began in 1407, including the remains of a Romanesque predecessor building from the 11th century. Between 1751 and 1753 the nave was rebuilt by master mason Wendel Schwesinger under the direction of Johann Jakob Michael Küchel from Bamberg . Renovations were carried out in 1938/1939 (new version), 1962, 1973 and 1999. The church suffered severe damage due to a fire on January 9, 2013 for an unexplained cause (negligent or deliberate arson). Above all, the pulpit was destroyed and in the interior there was damage caused by soot on the figures, the paintings and the organ. After extensive renovation, the church was reopened on April 18, 2015. A reconstruction of the pulpit is planned, a three-dimensional model was created.
architecture
The church is a baroque wall pillar church with a Gothic, retracted choir, which ends in a five-eighth end. In the southern corner of the choir, the square tower with the pointed spire, which was last changed in 1819, is built in, the substructure and north wall of which are still of Romanesque origin, which can be recognized by the slit windows and the rustic brickwork inside. The stately three-bay Gothic choir is still the stepped buttresses and lancet windows, the original tracery with Fischblasen- and pass motives only in the angular windows of the choir polygon is obtained. The picture windows with medallions of saints were created in 1902 by Schmitt from Bamberg.
Inside, the choir shows cross-ribbed vaults, which are supported by pilaster strips with semicircular templates and corinthian flower capitals , which were added later , like those in the nave, in the 18th century. The short nave with sandstone structures shows centralizing tendencies in the sloping western corners, in the western front with concave bulges, the convex projecting portal risalit on the northern side with the year 1752 and the crowning stone figure of St. Aegidius. Inside, the corners are rounded and the west side is provided with a swinging west gallery. The wide interior is closed off by a barrel vault with lancet caps , which is structured with straps and vaults to the west over the gallery and to the east to the lower, strongly recessed choir. Chapels are built between the almost free-standing wall pillars, which are divided by a gallery with a carved parapet and closed off by transverse barrel vaults. The light ceiling paintings in the nave are from 1754; an overpainting from 1895 was removed again in 1938. They show the adoration of the Lamb, the sacrifice of Melchizedek , the Salvator mundi , Jacob's dream and St. Helena.
Furnishing
The magnificent furnishings come from the baroque period. The high altar was supposedly created by Johann Michael Doser in the years 1713/1714 , but according to the style forms it was not completed until the second quarter of the 18th century. The stately concave retable with four columns is adorned with acanthus and rocaille decorations; the saints Georg , Sebastian , Bishop Otto I and Wolfgang are depicted as side figures . In the altar extract there is a carved group of the Coronation of Mary , flanked by Emperor Heinrich II and Kunigunde.
The richly carved side altars from the years 1766 to 1775 are attributed to Franz Martin Mutschele from Bamberg. The front side altars are equipped with pillars and volutes pilasters . The northern cross altar shows the altarpiece was crucified with plastically executed attendant figures, the southern Annunciation, flanked by the figures of Saints Joachim and Anna .
Four altars are set up in the side chapels. The eastern reredos are provided with volute struts and putti and show St. Kajetan in the altar leaves on the north side and St. John Nepomuk on the south side . The rear reredos are equipped with pillars and niche figures placed at a corner and show St. Joseph on the north side and St. Lawrence on the south side , the patron saint of burns, the agony of purgatory and the fire brigade. The pulpit from 1760/1770 was richly decorated and crowned by Moses with the tablets of the law.
The font from 1754 has a carved baptismal group. On the choir walls there are six carved reliefs from the earlier high altar with scenes from the life of Mary after woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer . On the south wall the fourteen helpers in need are depicted with the Christ Child, eleven figures are from the beginning of the 16th century, the rest were added in the 18th century. In the entrance chapel there is a Pietà from the 18th century.
The organ is a work by GF Steinmeyer & Co. from 1979 with 27 stops on two manuals and pedal . The prospectus with acanthus ornaments from an organ by Elias Hößler from Lauf from 1729 was reused.
To the south of the exterior there is a Mount of Olives Chapel with painted life-size stone figures and passion reliefs from around 1500. On the north side there is a niche figure of the scourged Savior from the 18th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03118-0 , pp. 816–819.
Web links
- Documentation on the accuracy of the reconstruction of the pulpit St. Agidius Vilseck
- Website of the parish of St. Agidius Vilseck
Individual evidence
- ↑ Newspaper report from January 10, 2013 on the fire on the district page. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Information about the brand on Onetz.de. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Report on the reconstruction on Onetz.de. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 38.4 " N , 11 ° 48 ′ 27" E