St. Emmeram (Geisenhausen)

Parish Church of St. Emmeram

View from the southeast

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Emmeram in Geisenhausen , a district of the Schweitenkirchen community in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , has a Gothic choir from around 1500 and a baroque nave from the 18th century. The church, which is consecrated to St. Emmeram of Regensburg , is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

architecture

Exterior construction

A wide stepped eaves cornice runs under the roof of the nave and choir . The outer walls of the choir are reinforced by pointed buttresses. The west facade is broken up by two round windows at the level of the gallery . In the southern corner of the choir stands the bell tower, the square base of which has an octagonal baroque structure crowned with an onion dome. The tower octagon is structured by cornices and corner pilasters and broken up by large round arched sound arcades and smaller transverse oval openings.

inner space

The church is a hall with a retracted choir. The nave has a flat ceiling that rests on a wide hollow under which a multi-profiled cornice runs. The walls are structured by flat pilasters with Ionic capitals . A flattened choir arch leads to the one-bay choir with a five-eighth end , which is covered by a reticulated vault. The western end of the nave is formed by a gallery, the parapet of which is arched forward in the middle.

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  inner space

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  Reticulated vault in the choir

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  Gallery

Furnishing

Madonna and Child, around 1500

Saint Leonhard from the 17th century

• The oldest sculptures in the church are a carved figure of a Madonna and Child, dated around 1500, and the figure of Saint Leonhard from the 17th century.
• The other figures, such as that of St. Emmeram, who is represented with his attribute , the ladder, and another Madonna and Child were created in the Nazarene style in the 19th century .
• A late Gothic baptismal font from the 16th century has been preserved in the church. The gadronized , goblet-shaped bowl is decorated on the upper edge with wavy vine tendrils.
• Two priest tombstones from the 17th century are embedded in the walls.

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  Holy Emmeram

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  Madonna and Child

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  Baptismal font from the 16th century

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  Priest's gravestone with the year 1698

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 , pp. 353–354.
• Jolanda Drexler-Herold, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.19 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87490-570-5 , p. 294 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Schweitenkirchen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-86-152-12

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 14.9 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 36.3"  E