St. Gallus (Frickenhausen)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Gallus is a Gothic hall church in the market town of Frickenhausen am Main in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg in Bavaria . It belongs to the parish of St. Gallus Frickenhausen in the Ochsenfurt deanery of the Würzburg diocese .
History and architecture
A church in Frickenhausen is mentioned for the first time in 903. In 1278 the church belonged to the Würzburg monastery Haug and in 1406 it was exchanged for the parish Sulzthal in the monastery Würzburg , in whose possession the church remained until 1803. The nave was built in the years 1514–1521 by the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Bock; the choir was built in 1605 and the nave was vaulted between 1613 and 1616. The tower, which dates back to the beginning of the 13th century on the lower floors, was later given a real tip . On the west gable of the nave there is a renewed stone figure of St. Gallus . The building is a four-bay, well-proportioned hall church, which is closed in the central nave with a barrel vault with an overlaid rib network on Renaissance consoles. Slender, three-lane windows with late Gothic fish bubble tracery forms illuminate the interior. The ships are separated by fighter- less, fluted arcades on octagonal pillars. The central nave is slightly higher than the side aisles, the church is a stepped hall . The west gallery with a small tracery parapet runs through all three naves. The portals are decorated with late Gothic branches.
Furnishing
The high altar is a work from 1617 by Georg Brenck, which, together with the model in the Andreas Church in Ochsenfurt, is one of the most important works of this era. It consists of a marbled, multi-part high storey building made of wood with numerous sculptures and reliefs. The northern side altar from 1620 is also ascribed to Brenck, the southern one dates from around 1650. In the choir there is a notable figure of Saint Sebastian from the mid-16th century. Numerous tombstones and epitaphs from the Renaissance period have been preserved.
On the outside of the church there is a group of Mounts of Olives from the beginning of the 16th century, in which not an angel, but - as is often the case in Franconia - God the Father hands over the cup of suffering to Christ.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 360–361.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the St. Gallus Church at wuerzburgwiki.de. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 15.2 " N , 10 ° 5 ′ 37.2" E