St. James the Elder (Feldkirchen)

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St. Jakobus, east side on Kirchenstrasse

St. Jakobus the Elder is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in Feldkirchen , an Upper Bavarian municipality in the district of Munich . The church is dedicated to the Apostle James the Elder . The building is registered as a monument in the Bavarian List of Monuments .

location

St. Jakobus, west side on Aschheimer Straße

The church is located in the center of Feldkirchen between Kirchenstrasse and Aschheimer Strasse ( B 471 ), about 100 meters north of their intersection with Münchner Strasse ( M 18 ). The nave extends roughly in a north-south direction with the choir in the north. To the north of the church, between the two streets, there is a green area in which there is also a listed war memorial.

history

In the place of today's church there was a former church of St. Michael, a late Gothic building facing east , which was redesigned in Baroque style around 1720 . Despite several renovations in the 19th century, the space in it was no longer sufficient at the beginning of the 20th century due to the increasing population of Feldkirchen, so that plans for a new building were made as early as 1910. But it wasn't until 1927 that the architects Wilhelm Flaschträger and Georg Berlinger built the new building, including the choir and the bell tower of the old church in the new building. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber consecrated the church in honor of the Apostle James the Elder .

architecture

Interior, viewed north

The nave is 38.8 meters long and 18.15 meters wide and has a gable roof . The wide, barrel-vaulted central nave is open to the low side aisles via wide arches. The central nave has arched windows, the side aisles have round windows. The retracted choir has pointed arched stitch caps and a five-eighth end . The edges of the choir closure are provided with buttresses on the outside .

The former choir of the old Michaelskirche protrudes from the nave to the east. the bell tower stands in the corner between the nave and the old choir. It has a square floor plan and has a gable roof.

Furnishing

The altars date from the 3rd quarter of the 17th century. The high altar in the apex of the choir extends to the top of the vault. Behind the altar table there is a two-story tabernacle , and two worshiping angels kneel on posts to the side of the altar table . The semicircular altarpiece above the tabernacle shows the resurrection of Jesus Christ . It is flanked by two slender columns and statues of the old and new church patrons, the Archangel Michael and the Apostle James the Elder . The Holy Spirit hovers over the altarpiece in the form of a dove. The extract from the altar shows a figure of God the Father , flanked by two slender columns and two angels.

The left side altar is a Marian altar with a figure of Mary with the baby Jesus , surrounded by a halo. It is flanked by two columns and dams of Saints Barbara and Catherine . The excerpt shows the coronation of Mary , flanked by two putti .

The right side altar is a crossed altar with a crucifixion group , flanked by two columns and statues of Saints Joachim and Zacharias . The extract shows Maria as Immaculata , flanked by two putti.

The church also features a crucifix with a Sorrowful Mother on the left long wall and a baroque pulpit , also from the 3rd quarter of the 17th century, on the right long wall.

  • Choir with high altar

  • Mary Altar

  • Cross altar

  • crucifix

  • pulpit

Michael's Chapel

Inside of the Michaelskapelle

The former choir of the old Michaelskirche, which adjoins the nave to the east, forms its own chapel, the Michaelskapelle. It is used, among other things, as a baptistery.

The stucco on the ceiling comes from the Baroque era of the old Michael’s Church around 1720. A ceiling relief shows a figure of the Archangel Michael . The altar dates from around 1700. The altarpiece, which shows Michael fighting the devil , is framed by an acanthus tendril.

Other pieces of equipment in the Michaelskapelle are a replica of a mercy seat by Tilman Riemenschneider and a painting of Maria lactans .

Bells

The church peal includes three bells:

  • the great St. James bell,
  • the middle Patrona Bavariae bell and
  • the little Michael's bell.

use

The church building is used by the Catholic parish of St. James the Elder as a parish church . This parish is part of the Aschheim – Feldkirchen parish association and is part of the Munich-Trudering deanery of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Jakob (Feldkirchen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Feldkirchen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Retrieved February 2, 2019 (monument number D-1-84-118-4 )
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Feldkirchen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Retrieved June 4, 2020 (monument number D-1-84-118-10 )
  3. ↑ a b c d e St. James. In: www.feldkirchen.de. Feldkirchen community, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  4. ^ Georg Paula , Timm Weski: District of Munich (= Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.17 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-87490-576-4 , p. 54 .
  5. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Jakobus the Elder. Ä. In: www.feldkirchen.de. Feldkirchen municipality, accessed on February 2, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '52.4 "  N , 11 ° 43' 44.8"  E