St. Georg (Hienheim)

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Parish Church of St. Georg, Sebastian Chapel on the right
South side of the nave with the remains of the Romanesque portal (under the middle window)

The Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Hienheim , a district of Neustadt an der Donau in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim , is essentially a Romanesque choir tower from the 12th century. The church is elevated, in the middle of a walled cemetery. Around 1600 the church was rebuilt in the Renaissance style and expanded in the early 19th century. The church, in which valuable pieces of equipment are preserved, is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

architecture

As was established during the restoration work in 1985, the first floor of the tower and the nave date back to the 12th century up to its present center and a height of eight meters. Here the masonry consisted of unplastered limestone blocks. Remains of the Romanesque arched portal can still be seen on the south side of the nave. In the 14./15. In the 17th century, a groin vault and the pointed arch door to the sacristy were built into the choir . Around 1600 the church was rebuilt in the Renaissance style , in which the small Romanesque window openings were filled with rubble stones and large, much deeper arched windows were broken through. In the nave, a barrel vault with stitch caps was drawn over the new windows. The outer walls of the tower and church were given a painted, gray-white corner cuboid and the tower was raised by one storey. In 1833 the originally two-bay nave was extended by three bays. The tower was raised to its present height and provided with a stepped gable and a gable roof .

inner space

Ceiling painting

The ceiling paintings in the nave with scenes from the life of St. George , the church patron , and the representation of the Trinity on the choir arch were made in 1903.

  • Ceiling painting in the nave

  • Saint George defeats the dragon

  • Holy Trinity on the choir arch

Furnishing

  • The current high altar from around 1700 was transferred to the parish church in 1980 from the Sebastian chapel , which has been used as a mortuary since the 1960s . The wood-carved figure of St. Sebastian , which originally stood in the central niche of the altar, was placed in the nave of the church and replaced in the altar by a new, baroque- style figure of St. George.
  • The figures of St. Stephen and St. Florian , which stand next to the high altar, date from the Baroque period .
  • The right side altar, the Holy Cross Altar, is a new creation and designed as a Gothic winged altar . It contains a painted, late Gothic carved relief of the Lamentation of Christ from around 1510. The two wings with the relief depictions of the apostle Bartholomäus and St. Dorothea come from the former late Gothic high altar and are the only ones of the original four relief images to be preserved. The other two panels depict the apostle John and Pope Urban I , who, like the apostle Bartholomäus and St. Dorothea , are venerated as patrons of viticulture.
  • The left side altar, the Catherine altar, is a new creation based on the Baroque style. The crescent moon Madonna with the baby Jesus in her arms comes from the Baroque period, the figures of St. Catherine and St. Barbara are new.
  • The pulpit is an early classicist work from around 1770/80.
  • On the south wall of the nave, opposite the pulpit, hangs a late medieval crucifix from around 1490, the figures of Mary and the apostle John at his feet date from the Rococo period .
  • Other figures preserved from the Baroque period are a Pietà , the Archangel Michael with a flame sword and soul scales and Saint Wendelin , perhaps an early work by Ignaz Günther .

  • High altar

  • Left side altar with baroque Madonna

  • Right side altar with the relief of the Lamentation of Christ

  • archangel Michael

  • pulpit

literature

  • Georg Dehio (edited by Michael Brix ): Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria II. Lower Bavaria. 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 , p. 213.
  • Georg Schwaiger : The parish of Hienheim in the past and present. Katholisches Pfarramt Hienheim (ed.), Hienheim 1986, pp. 108–122.

Web links

Commons : St. Georg (Hienheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Neustadt an der Donau (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-2-73-152-35

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 5.7 ″  E