St. Erhard (Attaching)

Exterior view of the St. Erhard branch church in Attaching from the southeast

inner space

The Filialkirche St. Erhard is a Roman Catholic church in Attaching in the municipality of Freising in the Upper Bavarian district of Freising .

history

The church in its present form was built from 1717 under the Freising Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Eckher von Kapfing and Liechteneck in the Baroque style. Master builders were students of the Asam brothers . The church was consecrated on May 22, 1718. The church patron is St. Erhard , whose relics are located inside the church. Part of his arm came to town on January 5, 1720 as a gift from Johann Franz Eckher. A church was first mentioned in a document in Attaching in 1418. It was a branch church of the collegiate monastery St. Veit . The cemetery surrounding the church was created in 1587 after the outbreak of a plague epidemic . After the dissolution of the St. Veit Monastery in the course of secularization in 1802, St. Erhard was the only one of the churches belonging to the monastery to remain. It was assigned to the parish church of St. Georg in Freising in 1837 and finally came to the parish of St. Lantpert in the Lerchenfeld district in 1937 . The last renovations were made in 1972 outside and 2001 inside.

architecture

The three-axis nave with an exposed west tower has a retracted choir with a basket-like apse. The windows have curved arches. The walls are structured inside with pilasters. The choir arch is strongly drawn in. The church was provided with rich vegetable stucco by the plasterer Nikolaus Liechtenfurtner , with fruit passages and putti heads, in the apse with a large shell with a white frame on a yellow, pink and blue-gray background. The ceiling painting is labeled Balthasar Kraft 1885 .

Furnishing

The high altar retable around 1778 shows the image of St. Erhard baptizes St. Ottilie, painted by the painter Johann Jakob Plätzger around 1718 from Landshut and carries the side figures hll. Wolfgang and Nikolaus. On the tabernacle is an Erhard reliquary with the bust of the saint around 1730, possibly by Johann Martin Sailer. In the niches on the side of the tabernacle are small sculptures of St. Peter and Paul. The side altars show the altar leaves with Saints Florian and Leonhard by the painter Adalbert Kromer from Freising (1881). The brick pulpit has a parapet with stuccoed rose branches in a vase. There is also a vase of roses on the cover. A copy of the miraculous image of Maria Trost from the 18th century hangs on the choir arch. In the nave there is a crucifix and a mater dolorosa from around 1718.

Web links

Commons : St. Erhard (Attaching)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Handbook of German Art Monuments. Dehio Bavaria. 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Attaching, Kath. Filialkirche St. Erhard, pp. 64–65, art guide, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 .
• Helmut Plötz: St. Erhard - Attaching. Publisher ?, location? and year?

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 27 ″  E