St. Alto (Leutstetten)
The St. Alto Church is a Roman Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising in Leutstetten , a district of Starnberg . It is dedicated to the holy Alto , who worked as a hermit in the 8th century in the area of today's Altomünster .
history
The branch church , which today belongs to the parish of Gauting , is essentially late Gothic and was redesigned several times in the 17th and 18th centuries. Inside there are three baroque altars . The high altar dates back to 1665. The onion dome was added in 1738 after the church was struck by lightning.
inner space
Two works of art in particular are worth seeing in St. Alto: On the one hand, the carved side altar on the left, the so-called “Pentecostal Altar”. This was made around 1520 by Erasmus Grasser or one of his students.
On the other hand, there is a wooden plaque in the church under the west gallery to the right of the entrance, which shows three holy sisters (Ainpet, Gberpet and Firpet) and which is likely to date from 1643. The veneration of these holy virgins can be traced back to 1605, but their origins are unclear. It seems certain that the roots of the story about these three virgins go back well before the 17th century. They are associated with the three prayers and are assigned the functions of fertility goddesses and protectors of families.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Alto Church, information sheet from the city of Starnberg, online version accessed on April 15, 2020
- ^ The holy sisters of St. Alto in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 21, 2017, online version accessed on April 15, 2020
Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 44.9 ″ N , 11 ° 22 ′ 1.5 ″ E