St. Georg (Rettenberg)

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St. Georg in Rettenberg

The church of St. Georg in Rettenberg near Friedberg is an architectural monument from the 13th century.

history

Remnants of an altar barrier plate with wickerwork found during renovation measures between 1973 and 1986 allow the dating of a previous church built around 850 from tuff and limestone. This was destroyed in the Hungarian and Guelph Wars .

The current church was built in the early 13th century. The tower was added around 1250, and the octagonal structure was added in the early 16th century. The bells are from 1752. The interior was baroque in the middle of the 18th century .

Building description

The church is a flat-roofed hall building with a retracted rectangular choir . The blunt tower on the north side has a curved pointed helmet .

Furnishing

The two-column altar and the figure of St. George on horseback date from the 17th century. The side figures of St. Elisabeth (left) and St. Dorothea (right) are from the 15th century. The figures in the church are replicas , the originals are in the parish church in Paar . The ceiling fresco is attributed to Sigismund Reis and shows the "Glorification of St. George" above the depiction of Rettenberg and a peasant group: the women with otter fur hats and the men in Friedberger costume . The cross-way panels date from the end of the 18th century. The chair cheeks were created around 1790.

Legend of the flour sack in Rettenberg

Rettenberg was on the Roman road from Augsburg to Wels . There were milestones along the road . The stump of one of these stones can be seen to the right of the main altar of the church. The legend of a poor woman who came to Rettenberg and begged for bread for her children is entwined with this stone. After she was turned away by a peasant woman, she asked if she could get a little flour from a full sack, which she was refused. In anger, the beggar wished that the flour should turn to stone, which she did. The repentant peasant woman then gave her some of her other flour. The stone flour sack was brought to the church to remind the faithful of the shameful stinginess .

People with toothache used to scrape material off the stone and stuff it into the tooth hole to combat the pain. This supposed miracle can be explained by the fact that the stone contains arsenic , as studies have shown.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Stadt Friedberg (Ed.): Stadtbuch Friedberg . tape 2 . Friedberg 1991, ISBN 3-9802818-0-9 .
  2. ^ A b c Hubert Raab: Friedberg experience: [with all parts of the city] . Kulturverlag Holzheu, Mering 2010, ISBN 978-3-938330-10-4 .
  3. ^ Architectural monuments Friedberg. (PDF) Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, April 14, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 15.5 "  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 33.9"  E