St. Georg (Ellingen)
The St. George Church is the Catholic parish church Ellingens , a town in Middle Franconia district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is registered under the monument number D-5-77-125-128 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The building is also designated as a ground monument (No. D-5-6931-0444). The postal address is Weißenburger Straße 31 .
history
The origins of the previous church are unclear. However, around 1058 a church was consecrated by Gundekar II . Another consecration took place between 1182 and 1196 by Bishop Otto von Eichstätt . Georg is named as patron saint as early as 1283, but the Teutonic Order did not succeed in obtaining church patronage until 1418 . On December 10, 1418, Pope Martin V confirmed the separation of St. George's Church, previously a subsidiary church, from the mother church of St. Andrew in Weissenburg . In 1552 the church was burned down by Margrave Albrecht . In the Thirty Years War , Ellingen was completely reduced to rubble. The building enthusiast Karl Heinrich von Hornstein decided in 1718, immediately after his confirmation, to build a new church. On April 5th, 1729 the foundation stone of the church built by Franz Joseph Roth was laid . It was consecrated on July 15, 1731 by Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell in Eichstätt . During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged, the western aisle torn away, the ceiling frescoes , stucco ceilings , the right side altar St. Elisabeth and the two stucco marble altars were badly damaged. After reconstruction and repair, the church was consecrated again on December 20, 1953 by Bishop Joseph Schröffer . The last total renovation took place 1985–1992, that of the stucco marble side altars in 1993.
Building description
The foundation walls of today's St. George's Church date from the construction time of the previous building.
Furnishing
In the church there is a statue of St. Michael , the patron saint of the previous church, who is holding a fragment of a bomb from the Second World War . The facade is on the east side of the church. The portal is decorated with statues of Saints George and Elisabeth . The twelve apostles adorn the nave. Frescoes decorate the side wall. The four-pillar altar shows St. George. There are several pictures, statues and reliefs on the pulpit and the north wall. The two side altars are made of stucco marble and are decorated with wooden figures. The cleaning of the temple by Christ is shown on the ceiling painting in the nave .
Procession poles
In the church there are artfully made processional poles , which are mainly decorated with figures of saints.
organ
In the gallery there is an organ from 1730, probably by Johann Martin Baumeister, with a sliding box . After the factory was renewed by Joseph Bittner in 1908 , only the baroque prospectus has survived. The organ has pneumatic performance and stop actions .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Maria-Hilf chapel
The mummy of the commissioner of the church, Commander Carl Heinrich von Hornstein , is laid out in the crypt of the Maria-Hilf Chapel in the western part of the churchyard (the former cemetery) .
Painting by the commissioner of the church Carl Heinrich von Hornstein on the inner north wall of the church
View to the gallery
Former cemetery with baroque tombstones (left) and Maria-Hilf chapel
Fresco in the Maria-Hilf chapel
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
- Katholisches Pfarramt St. Georg (Ed.): The churches of the parish Ellingen . without year and without ISBN.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Catholic parish church St. Georg , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on June 20, 2016)
- ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Baroque organs in Middle Franconia. A brief inventory. In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia. Vol. 97, 1994/1995, p. 257.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 31.6 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 4.1 ″ E