St. Agatha (Uffing am Staffelsee)

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Parish Church of St. Agatha in Uffing
Bell tower with onion dome
inner space

The Catholic parish church of St. Agatha in Uffing am Staffelsee , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen , was built in the Gothic style in the 15th century , enlarged and made Baroque in the 17th century . The church is dedicated to St. Agatha , who was martyred in Catania around 250 .

history

A church in Uffing is mentioned as early as 1200 among the parish churches of the Pähl deanery . In 1313, Heinrich der Meixner was the first pastor to be named in Uffing. In 1480 the nobles of Tafertshofen had the church of St. Agatha rebuilt, and in 1483 the church was consecrated by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Ulrich Geislinger.

In the second half of the 16th century, a pilgrimage developed into a miraculous image of St. Agatha. In 1569 and 1581 the first answers to prayer for the intercession of the saints are recorded in the Uffing Miracle Book . In 1686, over 200 reports of alleged miracles were submitted to the diocese of Augsburg for examination. In 1706 the Augsburg copperplate engraver Jeremias Kilian was commissioned to make prayer notes, also known as Agatha notes , with the copper engraving of the miraculous image.

In order to accommodate the increasing number of pilgrims, the nave was extended by seven meters to the west in 1650 under the direction of the builder Rudolph Zwink . A new vault was drawn in and a new sacristy was added. In 1676 Caspar Feichtmayr built the octagonal structure of the bell tower with its onion dome . In the years from 1770 to 1787 the church was redesigned in the late rococo style.

architecture

The Gothic tower in the basement is richly structured in its octagonal structure by glare fields and broken up by round-arched and cross-oval openings. The church is a hall building , the nave and choir are covered by barrels with lancet caps resting on flat pilasters . The choir that has not moved in is closed on three sides.

Ceiling frescoes

The ceiling frescoes were made by Sebastian Troger in 1786. On the choir fresco, St. Agatha is laid out under the eye of God . The fresco bears the signature: Joh: Seb: Troger: Pinx: 1786 (Johann Sebastian Troger painted it in 1786). In the middle of the nave fresco there are angel putti with the symbols of the divine virtues faith (chalice), love (flaming heart) and hope (anchor). The side pictures show scenes of the martyrdom of St. Agatha. The fresco above the gallery, which was painted over in the 19th century, was renewed in 1923 by the church painter Josef Wittmann . It depicts angels and Saint Cecilia at the organ.

Furnishing

High altar
  • The high altar , like the side altars, was created by Paul Zwink in the 1770s in the Rococo style. On the altar sheet you can see St. Agatha with supplicants. Like the ceiling frescoes, the picture was painted by Sebastian Troger and is marked with the year 1784. The large side figures of St. Apollonia and St. Catherine , like the other figures on the altar, were carved by Franz Xaver Schmädl .
  • Of the formerly magnificent baroque pulpit , which was made in 1702 by the brothers Balthasar and Ambros Zwink, only the pulpit is left. The sound cover , crowned by a Salvator figure and adorned with angels, was removed, as were the figures of the evangelists with which the pulpit was originally decorated.
  • In 1763, Paul Zwink placed a rococo-style supporting pillar for the gallery above on top of the 1693 offering.
  • The figure of the Archangel Michael who defeats Lucifer was created by Heinrich Hagen around 1700 .
  • The figure of Johannes Nepomuk from around 1750 is like the mission cross from 1740/50 a work by Franz Xaver Schmädl.
  • The carved figures of St. Gregory and St. Wolfgang in the choir date from around 1510.
  • The figure of St. Ulrich , depicted with a bishop's staff, book and fish, is dated around 1470.

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 , pp. 1198–1199.
  • Ernst Zieringer: Parish Church of St. Agatha Uffing on the Staffelsee . Catholic rectory in Uffing am Staffelsee (ed.), Hans Oefele Verlag, Ottobeuren (Allgäu) 1982.

Web links

Commons : St. Agatha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg

Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 54 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 57.4"  E