St. Agatha (Agatharied)

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St. Agatha (Agatharied)
inside view
Vault
Main altar

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Agatha is a Gothic hall church in the Agatharied district of Hausham in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach . It belongs to the parish association Hausham-Agatharied in the deanery Miesbach of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

History and architecture

The well-proportioned church was built uniformly around 1505, this year can be found on the choir arch . The chancel was redesigned in the Baroque style around 1670; a renovation took place in 1982/1983. The four-bay nave adjoins a slightly drawn-in, three-sided closed choir, in the north a tower with a pointed helmet is attached. A sundial is painted on the south wall of the nave . The nave is completed with a mesh vault over wall templates with services , which is provided with a tendril painting uncovered in 1936. In the area of ​​the altar, after removing the vault ribs, Schliersee frame stucco with plant goblets and intertwined circles was attached as a symbol of the Holy Trinity , as is also the case with other churches that were decorated by Schliersee stucco workers (for example in Heilig Blut (Elbach) and St. Laurentius (Egern) ) .

Furnishing

The high altar from 1649 was designed using the main parts of a late Gothic winged altar from around 1500. These include the central shrine with figures of the saints Urban and Agatha , wings with panels of the Agata legend on the front and back and the rear view of the shrine with a painting depicting Christ as the judge of the world.

The side altars date from around 1628 and were also designed using older paintings and sculptures. A central figure of St. Ursula is attached to the north altar and is framed by four narrow paintings of St. Margaretha , Barbara , Katharina and Dorothea from the second half of the 16th century. In the predella there is a simultaneous representation of the martyrdom of St. Ursula. On the southern altar is a late Gothic carved figure of St. James with accompanying representations from his legend, in the predella the Lamentation of Christ from the beginning of the 16th century. The pulpit dates from around 1650.

The ring, consisting of four bells, was cast in Erding after the Second World War.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Agatha (Agatharied)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Information about the church on the pages of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 56.4 "  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 26.3"  E