St. Georg (gladly)

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Parish church of St. Georg in Gern

The Catholic parish church of St. Georg in the Gern district of the Lower Bavarian town of Eggenfelden (Hofmark 46) originally belonged to the Archdiocese of Salzburg , but became part of the Diocese of Passau in 1817 . Today the parish of St. Georg in Gern belongs to the Wurmannsquick parish association.

history

It is believed that the first church was founded here in the 13th century by a representative of the local noble lords of Geren, who is not known by name . From 1315 the close of the Hofmark, which was meanwhile under Wittelsbacher's suzerainty, is proven. The parish of Gern and the first Romanesque parish church are said to date from 1418. In the Romanesque period, a separate church usually consisted of a single-nave hall building with an entrance on one narrow side and a semicircular apse on the other, mostly facing east. The illustration on the south inner wall and another on a priest's tomb to the right of the entrance to the church give an impression of this original state. The outline of a Romanesque arched window in the church outer wall can also be seen on the south outer wall.

Around 1450, this Romanesque predecessor building was rebuilt, widened and raised in the late Gothic style, this largely still corresponds to the current appearance. A choir was added to the Romanesque building , for which the church builder and patron saint Alban von Closen had donated the eternal light in 1418 . The suspension of an eternal light traffic light was seen as a sign of the completion of a church building or extension as well as a symbol for the contemplation or return of the holy of holies in the house of God. As a private church leader, he had thus satisfied canon law , according to which the granting of the right of patronage over a church and parish requires the fulfillment of three duties: to provide the building site, to erect the building and to take care of the equipment and maintenance of the church and priest ( Tria faciunt patronum: fundus, aedificatio, dos ).

As is often the case at this time, the Church is happy to have St. Georg the dragon slayer as the patron saint. It was custom to combine the patronage day on April 23, the so-called Georgi Day, to be celebrated annually with a market day, from which the Gern market, which still exists today, developed in Gern. The church consecration day is attested to the day after St. Laurentius (August 10th) for the church according to the parish Salbuch from the 17th century , but is no longer celebrated.

Building description

The yellow-painted church is surrounded by a moat to the east and south, together with the castle economy, which once enclosed both the castle hill of Schloss Gern and this part of the Hofmark . The moat in the direction of the castle park no longer exists today. The church has a 30 meter high baroque onion dome , probably built by the master builder Matthias Weidtinger from Neuötting .

  • Outdoor facilities of the parish church of St. Georgen

  • Closens coat of arms on the outside wall of the church

  • Gothic entrance portal in the side wall

  • Cemetery wall with coat of arms

  • Tomb of those von Lösch

The church is surrounded by a cemetery, which contains numerous burial places of the Closens, but also that of Lösch, as well as of Gerner court judges and pastors. Corresponding epitaphs are also attached to the church wall. The grave monuments date back to 1461.

The church is a late Gothic buttress construction. The pointed arched windows and portals, the buttresses on the nave and the triangular struts on the chancel, inside the vaulted ribs in the bell house and in the Closenkapelle, the gallery with the three keel arches and the two support supports as well as the iron-studded sacristy door still date from the Gothic period . During the Renaissance period , the high walls and window frames were probably painted with pictures and floral decorations, which were later whitewashed. During interior restorations in the 20th century, a small part was exposed again.

Interior

As a sign of the services that the Closens have made to the church, the Closen coat of arms with the nine balls and the Uttenschwalb can also be found inside the church, above the choir arch and on the pulpit body (as the alliance coat of arms Closen / Degenberg-Forster) the carved cheeks and painted over over the oratorio window in the choir.

The ribs on the ceiling of the nave and choir were chopped off in the Baroque period, creating a large free space on the vault. In 1763, the Eggenfelden painter Antoni Scheitler designed an open sky on this with the Holy Trinity in the choir, St. George raised from the ground in the nave and the angelic concert above the gallery.

  • Interior of the parish church of St. Georgen

  • View of the altar

  • Choir arch cross with angels

  • Altar and ceiling fresco

  • Gallery with organ

The three altars made of stucco marble are also baroque. In the high altar, flanked by two pigs, there is the painting of the dragon slayer St. Georg, painted in 1764 by Johann P. Ehrmiller from Braunau. The silver-plated reliquary pyramids show two inscriptions that have not been deciphered ( GF PF. And I .G. PF. ) From 1776. The altar also has a wreath-shaped decoration on the antependium and on the altar extension.

In 1729 , Wenzel Jorhan carved the angels and column capitals that were still in existence for the side altars that were no longer in existence . The former choir arch cross on the north wall could also come from his Griesbach workshop.

A carved group of poor souls suffering in purgatory from the demolished soul dungeon on the south outer wall is housed under the gallery in a barred niche that has been broken into the west inner wall. These were formerly attached to the outside of the church wall next to the Ölberg and Closenkapelle in the so-called soul dungeon.

In December 2007, the pulpit inside the church crashed. Some decorations were damaged in the process.

organ

In the organ case from 1900 there is a new pipe work with ten registers , which was created by the organ building company Weise , Plattling , 1986/87. Before that, there was an organ by the Passau organ builder Martin Hechenberger .

Bells

The bell had to be supplemented twice in the 20th century due to the partial delivery during the two world wars 1914/18 and 1939/45. The current four bells from 1949 and 1971 come from the Rudolf Perner bell foundry in Passau . The cracked, historically valuable bell of the Braunau bell founder Josef Sallöck from 1762 could no longer be saved.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 2.2 "  N , 12 ° 46 ′ 33.4"  E