St. Georg (Schwabelweis)

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St. Georg in Schwabelweis
St. Georg in Schwabelweis
St. Georg: interior

The Catholic parish church of St. Georg is located at Schwabelweiser Kirchstrasse 1 in the Schwabelweis district of Regensburg .

history

As early as the 9th century, when the place was first mentioned, by 1441 at the latest, a church is said to have existed here. A small bell , a stone cross and an art-historically significant figure of St. George have been preserved. In the course of its history the church became part of the Sankt Emmeram monastery and over time it became increasingly dilapidated. At the urging of the population and at the mediation of the bishop, Frobenius Forster had the old church torn down in 1769 and around 1770 gave the order to build the current church. The foundation stone was laid on September 26, 1770, the inauguration on September 26, 1776. After secularization , the church became a branch church of Tegernheim in 1817 . In 1911 the church was elevated to the position of Expositurkirche , and in 1924 as an independent parish church as part of the incorporation into Regensburg. During the Second World War , the church building was slightly damaged by bombing. Since there was a sharp increase in the number of parishioners after the Second World War, an annex with a gallery was added in the west in 1949 and a side aisle in the north.

building

The church is a late baroque hall church with a retracted choir , hipped roof and east tower with onion dome from 1770 to 1776. In 1949/50 the church was expanded to the north and west. The coat of arms of the builder of the church, created by Otto Gebhard , can be seen in the middle of the choir arch . The ceiling frescoes in the choir and nave were also made by the artist. The high altar , a columned retable with an extract and acanthus decorations was created around 1710 to 1720 and comes from another church. The pulpit was built around 1775 and is decorated with cartilage . The painting Pieta with mourners is attributed by the art historian Hans Christian Ries to the Munich neo-Baroque painter Josef Wittmann and was painted around 1918. The statue of St. Nepomuk was washed ashore during a flood of the Danube in 1909. It was later restored and placed on the north wall of the nave. The quarry stone cemetery wall with supporting pillars dates from the 18th century.

organ

In 1905 Willibald Siemann built a new organ with pneumatic cone chests with six stops on a manual and pedal as his Opus 156 using a preserved historical prospectus . In 1974 Eduard Hirnschrodt expanded this to eleven registers, divided into two manuals and pedal. This conversion was the last work in the factory's history.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Office for Archives and Monument Preservation: Regensburg Monument Profiles. Regensburg 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Josef Göllinger: The St. Georgs Church in Schwabelweis In: Altbayerische Heimatpost, vol. 52, no. 17, p. 11.
  3. ^ Christian Vorbeck: The organ builders Martin Binder and Willibald Siemann . Siebenquart Verlag Dr. Roland Eberlein, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-941224-02-5 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '24.2 "  N , 12 ° 8' 42.8"  E