St. Benedikt (Weihbüchl)
The Roman Catholic branch church St. Benedikt in Weihbüchl , a district of the municipality of Kumhausen in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a neo-Gothic hall building with a west tower , which was built in 1864 (according to other sources, 1854) including the late Gothic choir of the previous church. As a branch church, St. Benedikt belongs to the parish of St. Johann Baptist in Hohenegglkofen , which in turn is part of the Achdorf-Kumhausen parish in the Landshut dean's office of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . The church, which is located on a hill about three kilometers southeast of Landshut city center, is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-146-20 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
history
The previous building of today's church was built in the last third of the 15th century in the late Gothic style. Only the chancel with its two bays and the end in three octagonal sides has survived. The neo-Gothic nave with the re-entrant west tower was built in 1864.
Risk of collapse, construction planning and execution
The new building had become necessary because the Landshut building authorities had determined on November 13, 1859 that the structural condition of the church was catastrophic and that there was a risk of collapse. On February 28, 1860, the government in Landshut therefore ordered the immediate closure of the branch church and forbade the ringing of bells . The church administration then commissioned the master mason Mathias Dendl from Postau to draw up construction plans and a cost estimate for a new church building. The investment was justified by the fact that around a third of the parishioners owned their grave in Weihbüchl at that time and the parish service was held here every third Sunday. In addition, a brotherhood in honor of St. Sebastian was renewed here only in 1839 .
As later implemented, Dendl's plans only envisaged a new building of the nave and tower, as the choir was in a satisfactory structural condition. The plan of the nave was to be enlarged significantly and to offer around 90 additional seats. Also, a second side altar was provided, as such a date, especially for When eating at Requiems was missing. Due to disagreements within the community and poor cooperation with the authorities, the construction was initially delayed; the blocking of the church had to be maintained for years. It was not until July 20, 1863, that master carpenter Johann Baptist Niedereder from Hohenegglkofen was commissioned by the district office to submit plans for the restoration of the church as soon as possible. In the following year, 1864, these were finally implemented.
New interior
In 1865, a collection in favor of new church furnishings for Weihbüchl was held in all of the Lower Bavarian churches belonging to the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. The neo-Gothic interior was created in 1866 by the sculptor Michael Mayer based on a design by the Landshut master plumber, Paul Weiß. The total costs for the high altar , two side altars and the pulpit amounted to 1550 guilders .
Further developments
In the years that followed, numerous work was carried out in the vicinity of the branch church. So in 1881 a new cemetery gate was built. In 1887, the native Landshut glass painter Sebastian Eisgruber, who at the time was running a workshop in Nuremberg , ordered two glass windows with the theme of the Annunciation and the Baptism of Christ . These were used in the presbytery. In 1892 Franz Borgias Maerz from Munich created a six-register organ that was housed in a three-part, neo-Gothic prospect . At that time, there were three bells in the tower with the mood c – as – es, which weighed 485, 324 and around 150 pounds. The largest of them was poured by Anton Oberascher from Reichenhall in 1852 , the middle one in 1817 by Max Stern in Straubing and the smallest was from 1482, i.e. from the time the previous church was built.
description
Exterior construction
The small hall church includes a retracted, late Gothic choir with two yokes and an end in three sides of the octagon as well as a three-bay nave , which was built in the neo-Gothic style. The outer structure of the nave is structured by pilaster strips and pointed arched window openings, the choir by triangular pilaster strips and a roof frieze . The sacristy is built to the north of the choir . In the west of the nave is the three-storey tower, which jumps slightly into the nave , with an eight-sided pointed spire over four triangular gables .
Interior and equipment
The late Gothic choir, which is separated from the flat-roofed nave by a pointed choir arch , has a ribbed vault inside with round keystones , which - similar to the parish church of Hohenegglkofen - is figured in a net shape . The pear-shaped ribs arise from profiled, half octagonal brackets with concave sides and blunt pointed shields in front of them. In the sacristy there is also a late Gothic rib vault, albeit in a star-shaped figuration. The ribs arise from profiled pointed consoles; the keystone is round again. A wooden gallery has been inserted in the rear nave yoke .
The furnishings are predominantly in the neo-Gothic style. The high altar , side altars and pulpit are based on a design by the Landshut master plumber Paul Weiß and were made in 1866 by the sculptor Michael Mayer. Thanks to a donation from members of the community amounting to 800 marks , two glass windows could be ordered in 1887 from the glass painter Sebastian Eisgruber, who was born in Landshut but is now based in Nuremberg . The windows depicting the Annunciation and the Baptism of Christ were installed in the presbytery.
organ
The organ was built in 1892 by Franz Borgias Maerz from Munich in a neo-Gothic prospect ; the gaming table is free-standing. The cone chest instrument with mechanical playing and stop actions comprises six stops on a manual and pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g PV Achdorf-Kumhausen: History of the Weihbüchl branch church (PDF; 5.2 MB). Online at www.erzbistum-muenchen.de; accessed on February 25, 2018.
- ^ A b c Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, p. 223 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b List of monuments for Kumhausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online .
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '44.5 " N , 12 ° 12' 9.1" E