St. Andreas (Hofendorf)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Andreas in Hofendorf , a district of the municipality of Neufahrn in Lower Bavaria in the Landshut district , is a rococo- style church that was built in 1747 by the elector's court mason Johann Georg Hirschstötter from Landshut , and a little later it was uniformly furnished in rococo style has been. The parish church is located on a hill above the valley of the Kleine Laber . The small parish of Hofendorf with around 300 Catholics today and the patronage right of St. Andrew (memorial day: November 30th) were confirmed by the Regensburg Bishop Heinrich in 1278 . Hofendorf is now looked after by the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Neufahrn.
architecture
The east-facing hall structure comprises a three-bay nave and a retracted, single -bay choir with a semicircular apse , which are united under a common gable roof . The exterior, whitewashed in soft pink and structured by white pilaster strips and plaster strips, is broken through by window openings with curved borders, so-called bass violin windows, which are particularly typical of Hirschstötter. They can also be found, for example, at the parish church of the Assumption of Mary in Oberhatzkofen, which he built. There is also a smaller, three-pass-shaped window in each yoke above the bass violin window.
While a two-storey sacristy is attached to the south side , the tower hugs the west side of the church building with a square floor plan. Its substructure consists of two elevated floors. Just over the ridge height of the ship , the tower goes into a octagonal on the superstructure, that of corner pilasters is divided and tower clocks and having sound holes. A heavily constricted onion dome with a tower ball and cross forms the upper end . Access to the interior of the church is through the tower ground floor. A side chapel built to the north of the tower in honor of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is also accessible from here.
The interior is spanned by a flat barrel vault with stitch caps , which rises from flat pilasters above a strongly profiled entablature. The latter runs around the entire interior with the exception of the west side. The choir is separated from the nave by the round choir arch . In the back yoke of the nave, a double gallery has been inserted, the upper floor of which carries the organ .
Furnishing
Altars
The three stately, uniformly designed rococo altars from 1761/65 dominate the interior of the church. The high altar has a high base zone that frames the canteen and tabernacle . The latter has gilded doors with relief representations . On the right door is the Lamb of God from the Book of Revelation recognizable. Above that, behind the little gilded door with vine tendrils , is the exposure niche , which is crowned by a heart as a symbol of God's love in a halo. The large altarpiece shows the church patron Andrew in front of the so-called St. Andrew's cross , on which he will suffer his martyrdom . This painting is flanked by the two side figures Peter (left) and Paul (right).
The projecting structure is supported by four round columns and two pilasters, each with Corinthian capitals . There is a stucco vase in playful shapes at the ends of the beams that protrude to the front ; about above the inner pair of pillars sit two fully sculpted putti . On the altar extension , which is bordered by six volute arches , a relief representation of the Holy Spirit dove can be seen. This is surrounded by clouds with four putti heads and set behind by a golden halo. On the side there are two passageways with doors, above each another stucco vase.
The two side altars, which take up the places in the rounded corners of the nave and are designed as counterparts , are hardly set back from the high altar. Here, too, curved shapes predominate. The structure is supported by two round columns and two pilasters with Corinthian capitals. On the outside of the entablature, which also protrudes far, there are two vases, which thus frame the altar extension. The latter is supported on both sides by volutes on the entablature.
The north (left) side altar is dedicated to the holy mother Anna . It shows the altarpiece his namesake, her daughter Maria in the presence of her husband, St. Joachim , the reading teaches. On the exposure niche there is a figure of the Madonna with baby Jesus . While Mary holds the scepter in her right hand, little Jesus cradles another symbol of power in his left hand, namely the orb , and raises his right hand as a blessing. The southern (right) side altar is dedicated to St. Joseph .
pulpit
The pulpit on the Gospel side is also kept entirely in the Rococo style. The curved pulpit with stairs has golden-framed image fields with volute pilasters in between. On the back wall is a painting depicting Jesus as the Good Shepherd . The curved sound cover shows a relief of the Holy Spirit dove on the underside, on top a trumpet angel .
Other equipment
Opposite the pulpit is a mission cross with a figure of Mater Dolorosa at the foot . The large ceiling painting in the nave, probably of more recent origin, shows the Ascension of Christ . The historical baptismal font is placed in front of the southern side altar. A circular stone basin with a wooden lid rises above an octagonal base. A rosary Madonna with baby Jesus is attached to the choir arch . The figure stands on a cloud that contains a crescent moon . The carved, rectangular chair cheeks with a curved attachment are all designed in the same way. They each show a large mussel shell , foliage and fruit pendants.
organ
The organ of the parish church was built in a neo-Romanesque prospectus in 1878 by Ludwig Edenhofer , who ran an organ building workshop in the town of Regen in the Bavarian Forest . It was last restored in 1977 by Hermann Kloss from Kelheim and around 2000 by Johannes Schädler from Donaustauf . The slider chest instrument with a purely mechanical performance and register action comprises a total of seven registers on a manual and firmly coupled pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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One of the previous instruments of this organ is now in that of Sixtus Lampl launched Organ Center Valley . The slider chest instrument probably dates from the 17th century, but at most from the early 18th century. Towards the end of the 18th century, the instrument was moved from its original location in the Hofendorfer parish church to its branch church in Walpersdorf. A pedal mechanism was added in the 19th century, which was removed during the most recent restoration because it was completely out of proportion. After the organ was completely unplayable due to lack of use, it was restored and transferred to the organ center. The current disposition of the instrument is as follows:
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Neufahrn in Niederbayern / Hofendorf, St. Andreas . Online at organindex.de; Retrieved July 2, 2017.
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
- ↑ Set up in the old castle . Online at www.lampl-orgelzentrum.de; Retrieved July 2, 2017.
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '52 " N , 12 ° 8' 53" E