St. Jakob (Wasserburg am Inn)
The Catholic parish church of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn is a late Gothic brick church in the Rosenheim district in Upper Bavaria . It belongs to the parish of St. Jakob in Wasserburg am Inn in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and, with its huge roof, shapes the cityscape of the old town.
history
The Church of St. Jakob was originally a branch church of the Benedictine Abbey of Attel and was first mentioned in 1255. In 1410 the citizens decided to build a new and larger church. Hans von Burghausen was responsible for the planning and construction management - presumably with lengthy interruptions to construction - until his death in 1432. His nephew, the stonemason and painter Hans Stethaimer , first mentioned in the Schnaitsee church treaty in 1431 , is given as his successor . After the completion of the nave, the high Gothic choir was demolished and a late Gothic choir was built by the master Stephan Krumenauer , the son of the master builder of the Passau and later of the Salzburg cathedral Hans Krumenauer . Jörg and Michael Sallinger were employed as parliaments , and Conrad Rottaler among others as stonemasons.
In 1448 the choir with five chapels and the sacristy was consecrated. The mint master's chapel (now the Herz-Jesu-Kapelle) on the south side of the choir was completed in 1452, the two side chapels north and south of the tower in 1452/54. The tower was built from 1458 under the direction of Krumenauer and after his death in 1461 by Wolfgang Wiser and completed in 1478. The inscription “Wolfgang Wiser, Maister des paws” reminds of this on the westernmost chapel on the south side of the nave.
In the years 1635–58 the church was redesigned in the style of early and high baroque. A major renovation, which included new side entrances instead of the central nave chapels, took place in 1826. Michael Geisberger brought the church closer to its Gothic appearance in 1879/80 by removing the stucco and the early baroque altars. The re-erection of the neo-Gothic side altars, which had been removed in 1945, was carried out during a renovation in 1979/80.
architecture
The nave of the late Gothic hall church with side chapels of various sizes was built from brick, the choir, the sacristy and the west tower from tuff ashlar masonry. The exterior is characterized by the large tracery windows and the unusual tower end with a hipped roof . The height of the aisles is almost that of the central nave. The three-bay nave is followed by a two- bay choir to the east and a six-story tower to the west. The choir and nave are separated from each other by steps and belt ribs. Star vaults are inserted in the nave and late Gothic vaults with curved ribs in the choir. A mural was created at the choir to the south-east with a representation of the tree of life from around 1460/80, which shows seven group pictures on the subject of original sin and redemption with God the Father and three individual scenes below each on both sides. In the individual scenes there are depictions of the Ecclesia and the synagogue , the host tree and the tree of knowledge as well as the risen one between the blessed and the damned. Eight half-figures are shown on each side in vertical stripes. The glass paintings in the choir were made in 1880 by Franz Xaver Zettler from Munich and represent the condemnation of St. James the Elder.
Furnishing
The side altars are works based on designs by Johann Marggraff and partly by Joseph Elsner senior , the Sebastian altar by Heinrich Geigenberger. The Tabernacle of the high altar was built in 1831 according to the draft Wasserburger Kistler created Johann fire from Augsburg silversmith Joseph Muehmann. The pulpit is a major work of early Baroque sculpture in southern Germany and was created by Martin and Michael Zürn the Elder from Waldsee in 1638. The choir arch crucifix was designed by Adam Hartmann in 1678. On the north wall of the choir a painting hanging from the years 1649/50 by Johann Ulrich Loth , that the Virgin Mary into heaven is. Under the gallery there is a representation of Christ at rest from the middle of the 18th century. On the pillars are sculptures of the apostles made of shell limestone from the years 1902-06 by Max Heilmaier . The neo-Gothic stations of the cross were designed as terracotta reliefs by the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt .
The organ's prospectus originally belonged to a work by Anton Bayr from 1764. The seven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played the previous instrument in 1763. Today's organ is a work by Georg Glatzl from Altmühldorf from 1958 with 48 stops on three manuals and pedal .
The tower houses a historically extremely valuable bronze bell with a striking sequence of c sharp '- e' - f sharp '- a' - g ". The bells were all cast between 1473 and 1663 and have been preserved to this day.
Tombs
Numerous tombs and epitaphs of the patricians from Wasserburg, the council families, the civil servants of the ducal and electoral administration as well as the nobility in the surrounding area complete the rich furnishings.
In the Estermann Chapel in the choir, the tombstones for Stefan Widder († 1509) and his wife Elisabeth Scheuchenstuhl († 1497) should be mentioned; also the grave slab for Peter Fröschl († 1475) with a finely crafted coat of arms, a work by Franz Sickinger and for Jörg Estermann the Elder († after 1500) and his wife Katharina and finally for Christoph Martein († 1513) and his two wives.
On the north wall of the choir, the epitaphs for Hans Steinhauf († 1575) and for Wolf Steinhauf († 1575), which are provided with the signum WH. There is also the epitaph for Wolfgang Sträßl († 1527) and his two wives and the epitaph for Sigmund Perckhofer zu Holzhausen († after 1500) and his wife Afra Fröschl.
In the westernmost chapel on the north side is the epitaph for Michael Egkstetter († 1485), which was executed in 1473 by Franz Sickinger. Under the gallery, the large epitaph artfully worked by the Wasserburg sculptor Wolfgang Leb for the ducal rent master Hans Baumgartner († 1500) with a fine relief representation of the deceased should be emphasized.
In the westernmost chapel on the south side there is a memorial stone for Ludwig the Bearded , on whose orders the fortification of the city walls of Wasserburg took place in 1415; the inscription plate belonging to the memorial stone can still be found on the south-eastern outer wall of the choir. The grave slab for Peter Paumgartner († 1477) by Hans Haldner can be found on the southern nave pillar of the tower .
A coat of arms epitaph for the two wives of Kaspar Kienberger was placed on the outer south wall of the choir in 1483. A rectangular epitaph for Wolfgang Gumpolzhaimer († 1514) and for Jörg Gumpolzhaimer († 1521) with a coat of arms in an early Renaissance aedicule is attached to the southern outer wall of the nave . There is also a large Renaissance epitaph for the wealthy patrician Abraham Kern von und zu Zellereit († 1628) and his wife Maria Altershamer with a relief of the Entombment of Christ, signed by the Wasserburg sculptor Gregor Pichler. Finally, on the outer south wall, the epitaph for Jakob Kulbinger († 1532) and his wife Elspeth († 1534) with coat of arms in Renaissance aedicules and the rectangular epitaph and for Sibylla von Donnersberg († 1634) with a relief of the risen Christ and the Mother of God are closed Find.
Further grave slabs and epitaphs from the 15th to 17th centuries have been preserved on the western and northern outer walls of the nave.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , pp. 1355-1357.
Web links
- St. Jakob Historical Lexicon Wasserburg
Individual evidence
- ^ Willi Birkmaier, Ed .: Mozart in Wasserburg. Wasserburg: Bookstore, 1990.
- ↑ Information about the organ on the organ database Bavaria online. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 12 ° 13 ′ 51.8 ″ E