St. Alban (Sankt Alban)
The Catholic branch church and former pilgrimage church of St. Alban in Sankt Alban , a district of the community of Dießen am Ammersee in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , is essentially a Gothic church building from the late 15th century, which was converted to Baroque style in the 18th century. The church is consecrated to Saint Alban of Mainz , a missionary and martyr who was beheaded in the early 5th century. The church is on the list of protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.
history
Today's church was built by the provost of the Augustinian canons in Dießen, Johannes II. Zallinger, around 1480 on the site of a predecessor building that was in danger of collapsing. Between 1736 and 1739 Provost Herkulan Karg had the Gothic church redesigned in the Baroque style. The church was spared from being demolished in the course of secularization , as the last provost of the Dießen monastery, Ferdinand Grässl, acquired it in 1812.
architecture
Exterior construction
The church, located directly on the west bank of the Ammersee , is a hall building with a wood-shingled west facade and a non-retracted choir in the east. In the northern corner of the choir stands the bell tower, the square substructure of which has a two-storey, octagonal structure with a pointed helmet. Glare fields framed by pointed arches with narrow, pointed-arched openings are cut into these two upper floors. The nave and choir are divided by painted pilasters and arched windows, which were enlarged during the baroque style of the church. In a niche in the choir stands the figure of St. Alban, who holds his severed head in his hands.
inner space
Inside, flat pilasters structure the three-axis nave, which, like the choir, which is closed on five sides, is covered by a flattened needle cap barrel, which was drawn in in 1739 in place of the original Gothic wooden ceiling. The western end of the nave is formed by a gallery with a straight parapet, to which a wooden staircase leads. The painting of a procession arriving in Sankt Alban , which takes up the entire gallery parapet, was executed in the middle of the 19th century by the painter Karl Vorhölzer , who worked in Dießen am Ammersee .
The colored stucco decoration in the early Rococo style dates from 1739.
Gallery picture
Gallery image (detail)
Furnishing
- The two-column main altar with his Engels putt occupied beams as the two side altars in 1770 by Thomas Schaidhauf from Raisting created. The stucco relief of the main altar depicts the decapitation of St. Alban. The altarpieces on the side altars are crowned by elaborate stucco curtains held by angel sputtles. Life-size wooden figures stand on the pedestals, St. John Nepomuk on the north altar and St. Florian on the south altar .
- The partially gilded pulpit made of stucco marble dates from the same time as the altars .
- The painting depicting the apotheosis of St. Alban was probably the altarpiece of the former high altar. It was probably painted around 1620 in the workshop of Elias Greuter the Elder (also Greither) in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria .
- Like the crucifix in the nave, the two half-figures of Our Lady of Sorrows and the Man of Sorrows standing on stucco consoles in the choir are dated between 1755 and 1770 and attributed to the sculptor Franz Xaver Schmädl .
- The 14 painted stations of the cross are marked with the year 1772.
- Numerous votive pictures are kept in the church , the oldest being dated 1715.
North side altar with Johannes Nepomuk
South side altar with St. Florian
Stucco marble pulpit
Votive pictures
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 1051.
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 123-124 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Dießen am Ammersee (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-81-114-89 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 38.7 " N , 11 ° 6 ′ 31.4" E