St. Georg (Hohenschäftlarn)

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St. Georg (Hohenschäftlarn)
View from the east
inside view
Fresco in the nave

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Georg is a baroque hall church in the Hohenschäftlarn district of Schäftlarn in the Upper Bavarian district of Munich . It belongs to the Schäftlarn parish in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and dominates the townscape due to its location at the height of a terminal moraine .

History and architecture

The parish church, first mentioned as an oratory in 778 , was rebuilt in the years 1729–1732, with a lower part of the tower of a late Gothic predecessor building with ridge vaults on the ground floor and pointed arch openings to the choir. The builder of the building, consecrated in 1734, was Johann Georg Ettenhofer from Munich. In 1954 the nave was extended; a renovation was carried out in 1976/1977.

The hall church with originally three window axes and a retracted, semicircular closed choir is provided with a rectangular tower with a dome and a two-storey extension on the south side. The nave and the tower are structured on the outside by panels and pilaster strips . The interior is closed in the choir by a flat dome and in the nave by a flat barrel vault with stitch caps over a pilaster structure. In the choir, the frescoes by Benedikt Dersch from 1734 show the veneration of the cross, in the nave the glory of St. Augustine and Norbert with a scapular - and a regular donation from around 1730, painted by Brother Lukas Zais from Lambach . They were heavily revised later.

Furnishing

The uniform furnishing from the time of origin consists mainly of the pulpit and the altars and was created by the Kistler Balthasar Frimmer from Grünwald. On the main altar is a painting by Balthasar Augustin Albrecht , which shows the Assumption of Mary by the Holy Trinity . In Altar extract the sacred is Katharina shown flanked by wooden sculptures of St. Sebastian and St. George , created by Joseph KRINNER. Next to the tabernacle are Saints Dionysius and Margaret.

The inclined side altars show a carved figure of St. Catherine on the north side, and Pope Silvester on the south side . In the nave there are other figures: on the north side the saints Florian and Johann Nepomuk , on the south side the saints Barbara and Leonhard , all from the period around 1730/1740. On the south side there is also a small crucifixion group with a body from the beginning of the 16th century.

The pulpit dates from around 1740. In the choir there is a memorial plaque for the builder of the church, Abbot Hermann Josef Frey, as a wooden plaque with a carved Rocailles frame from 1751. He was buried here because the monastery church was still under construction at that time.

The organ is a work by Christoph Kaps from 1992 with 23 stops on two manuals and pedal .

  • Saint Florian

  • Saint Leonhard

  • North side of the nave

  • South side of the nave

  • St. Georg in the village

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , p. 489.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the history on the pages of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Retrieved December 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Information about the organ on the organ database Bavaria online. Retrieved August 25, 2020 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 32.9 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 7.3 ″  E