St. George (puppling)

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Church of St. George in Puppling

The Filialkirche St. Georg is a small Roman Catholic church building in the Eglingen district of Puppling in Upper Bavaria, which is dedicated to St. George is consecrated.

location

The church is in an open field on the edge of the Pupplinger Au on the former road from Wolfratshausen to Ascholding . It is surrounded by a cemetery with a wooden fence. In the northwest corner of the cemetery is the morgue, built in 1965.

history

The place was mentioned in the early Middle Ages , when priest Reginpald von Puppininga handed himself and his own church in Puppling over to the cathedral in Freising . 1315 was a puppling branch of Deining.

According to the year on the outside of the choir , the church was built in 1690. The building, which is essentially late Gothic , was redesigned in the Baroque style in the 18th century and was last restored from 1984 to 1986. This also were ornamental Ausmalungen of the middle 18th century uncovered and supplemented.

description

View from the south

St. Georg is a simple rectangular building with a three-sided choir closure. There are three arched windows on both sides. The roof with a ridge was re-covered with old beavers . Above the west gable wall sits a roof turret, presumably from the 19th century, with a square substructure, an octagonal bell chamber and an attached, shingled pointed hood. Two bells hang in the tower. The sacristy is attached to the northeast slope of the choir. It is beveled at the outer corners and abuts the sloping choir with a pent roof. The entrance to the church, extended with a vestibule, is on the south side of the nave . In the front building with a gable roof there is an old tile floor. In the vestibule there is a segmented arch niche in the west wall , in a basket arch portal with an inserted, two-field framed door, St. George is sitting on a horse in the upper field, killing the dragon, while a star pattern can be seen below. On the door there is a late Gothic pull handle and a small, high-quality key plate.

The high altar from around 1700 is furnished with even older figures from the early 16th century of the Virgin Mary and Saints Sebastian and Ursula .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Karl Meichelbeck : Historiae frisingensis, tomus I, pars 1-2. Google books
  2. a b List of buildings protected in the municipality ( Memento from January 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 52.5 "  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 15.8"  E