St. Georg (Hohenreichen)

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Chapel St. Georg in Hohenreichen

The Catholic Chapel of St. Georg was built in the middle of the 15th century as a chapel for Hohenreichen Castle. The church village Hohenreichen, four kilometers northeast of Wertingen , has been a district of Wertingen in the district of Dillingen an der Donau since 1972 and belongs to the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia . In the chapel there is a late Gothic winged altar with the representation of St. George .

history

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1093 under the name Ricchin (Reichen). The name is traced back to the Hohenreicher Mühlbach, which was formerly called the Reiche Ach, which should distinguish it as particularly rich in water. The Lords of Reichen were also mentioned for the first time in 1093. They were noble-free and are proven up to 1154. They were followed by a branch of the Truchsess von Kühlenthal and later a branch of the Marshals von Rechberg , who then called themselves Marshals von Reichen and later Barons von Pappenheim . They also acquired the Wertingen estate in 1467/68 . Until 1568 the castle was the center of their rule. When they moved to the castle in Wertingen, the castle fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1779. Only the castle chapel, built in 1456, was preserved.

architecture

The tower rises in front of the west facade. It is covered with a flat onion cap, which it probably received in the late 16th century. The square basement floors are decorated with arched friezes and have a short octagonal structure, which is broken through on all eight sides by round arched sound arcades .

The interior has a single nave and ends in a strongly recessed choir with a five-eighth end , which is spanned by a net vault. The choir and nave are pierced by large pointed arch windows.

Furnishing

  • The chapel has a late Gothic winged altar that is marked with the year 1515. The central shrine is occupied by a semi-sculptural figure of St. George, who is depicted on horseback and defeating the dragon. The former Hohenreichen Castle is shown in the background. The wings on the side show Jesus on the Mount of Olives (above) and the flagellation of Christ (below) on the left and the crowning of thorns on the right (above) and the burial of Christ (below).
  • The figures of John the Baptist , St. Christopher and St. Elisabeth of Thuringia are dated around 1510/20.
  • The colored relief of St. Isidore of Madrid , who is surrounded by domestic animals, also dates from this period .

Others

The altar parts were stolen in the 1970s. The Wertingen art connoisseur Adolf Merk recognized part of the altar in a catalog of a Munich art dealer. He gave the decisive tip to the police. The altar parts had already been sold to Belgium.

literature

  • Georg Dehio (revised by Bruno Bushart and Georg Paula): Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Art monuments Bavaria III: Swabia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03008-5 , pp. 458–459.
  • Georg Wörishofer, Alfred Sigg, Reinhard H. Seitz: Cities, Markets and Communities . In: The district of Dillingen ad Donau in the past and present . Landkreis Dillingen an der Donau (Ed.), 3rd revised edition, Dillingen an der Donau 2005, pp. 409–411.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 7.7 ″  E