St. Florian and Wolfgang (Kirchberg)

Exterior view of the parish church of St. Florian and Wolfgang from the south

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Florian and Wolfgang in Kirchberg , the capital of the municipality of Kröning in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a listed , mainly late Gothic church from the second half of the 15th century. The parish of Kirchberg now forms a parish community with the neighboring parishes Maria Immaculata in Dietelskirchen and St. Michael in Reichlkofen .

Surroundings

War memorial

The parish church of St. Florian and Wolfgang is surrounded by a cemetery . This in turn is enclosed by a wall , some of which protrudes several meters high from the site . More recently, the burial site outside the enclosure has been extended to the northeast. On the spacious church forecourt (outside the cemetery) there is a solid brick fountain with a bronze statue of the church patron Wolfgang von Regensburg (memorial day: October 31) and - next to the staircase to the cemetery - a war memorial in memory of the fallen soldiers of the two world wars . The column-supported gateway contains a stone relief in a massive niche that shows a grieving soldier at the foot of the cross of Christ . It is flanked by several memorial plaques.

history

The origins of the Kirchberg settlement are probably very early; they are said to go back to the 8th century AD. The Romanesque predecessor of the current church probably dates from the 12th century. The tower crowned by a gable roof has been preserved from him to this day . The first pastor , a certain Chunradus decanus , is mentioned in a document in 1210 .

The current church was built in the second half of the 15th century, probably around 1470. The south aisle was added later.

The well-known local researcher Bartholomäus Spirkner was a pastor in Kirchberg from 1908 to 1919. The street leading past the church is named after him.

architecture

Interior view towards the east

Interior view towards the west

Exterior construction

The east-facing hall church with attached side aisles has a retracted, two-bay choir with three-eighth end and pointed-arched tracery windows . The central nave has three bays and - in addition to two rear windows - is illuminated by an upper aisle above the pent roof of the south aisle. The latter was added to the late Gothic building centuries later. It only has small, square window openings. The main portal is located in the second yoke from the west . The north aisle is much higher and is united with the central nave under a common gable roof . The roof ridge is therefore outside the central axis of the presbytery . While the nave is largely undivided with the exception of the pilaster strips around the ogival window openings, the choir has an elaborate structure with separate buttresses and an unusually wide roof frieze .

The free-standing tower, a so-called campanile , probably comes from the previous building of today's church. It was built on a square floor plan in the 12th century and has a Romanesque style. Except for a few narrow slits of light, it is externally not structured. On the east side there is a round arched doorway that allows access. At a great height there are tower clocks and arched sound openings on all sides . A simple gable roof forms the upper end, the gable of which is decorated with a round arch frieze on the north and south sides.

inner space

Inside, the nave and choir are spanned by a late Gothic ribbed vault without girders , which rises from brackets on flat wall templates . The dividing arches to the north aisle are pointed arches , to the south aisle as flat segmental arches . The choir arch is also ogival. A pillarless organ loft has been installed in the western yoke of the central nave . The straight parapet contains three fields of view, which are separated by delicate, twisted columns.

Furnishing

Late Gothic winged altar

Late Romanesque font

Weise organ from 1991

High altar

In the presbytery is the high altar , a neo-Gothic winged altar from the 19th century. In the middle shrine it shows figures of the patron saint Florian von Lorch (left; Remembrance Day: May 4th) and Wolfgang von Regensburg (right). The tabernacle with gilded doors is located between the two figure niches , and above it is an exposure niche with a crucifix . In conversation Enge is a crucifixion scene to see; In contrast to the other neo-Gothic figures, the figure of Mary is kept in the Rococo style. On the inside of the two wings depictions of the birth of Christ (left) and the adoration of the Magi (right) can be seen.

Baptismal font

The late Romanesque font from the 12th or 13th century is the oldest piece of equipment in the church. It is a roughly hewn granite stone with a square base and a round base. The chalice is shaped into a round shell basin. The font has a neo-Gothic lid with a figurative representation of the baptism of Jesus .

organ

Around 1960 the parish church received a new organ from Julius Zwirner from Munich. The pneumatic cone store instrument comprised 14  registers on two manuals and a pedal . It had a free-standing gaming table and a free pipe brochure . Due to systemic deficiencies, the organ had to be shut down after around 30 years. In 1991 the parish church received a new organ, which was created by Reinhard Weise from Plattling . The fully mechanical slider tray instrument is housed in a five-part brochure. It comprises 17 registers on two manuals and pedal as well as a coupling manual .

Web links

Commons : St. Florian and Wolfgang (Kirchberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the parish community in Kirchberg, Dietelskirchen and Reichlkofen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} List of monuments for Kröning (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ The history of the development of the municipality of Kröning . Online at www.gerzen.de ; accessed on December 31, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kirchberg - St. Florian and Wolfgang . Online at kirchturm.net ; accessed on December 31, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 51.5 ″  E