St. Johann Baptist (Burgkirchen an der Alz)
The old parish church of St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Burgkirchen an der Alz in the Upper Bavarian district of Altötting .
architecture
The late Gothic hall church made of tuff stone was probably built using older parts and consecrated in 1477 . The nave was completed in 1484. The buttresses are set off three times and the setting on the tower top is delicately repeated. The west tower received a pointed helmet in 1727 . The interior of the church was designed in baroque style in 1763 by Franz Alois Mayr from Trostberg . The nave and the choir have a lancet barrel vault over pilasters with presented pilasters . The double gallery in the west is sweeping. Two large frescoes by the painter Johann Martin Heigl in the choir ( beheading of Johannes ) and in the nave ( baptism on the Jordan ) are framed by painted stucco.
Furnishing
The high altar was created in 1703 by Stefan Reiter from Ranshofen. The high altar painting Maria as Apocalyptic Woman was originally painted in 1717 by the painter Valentin Reuschl for the monastery church in Neuburg an der Donau . The side of the high altar bears the carved figures of Saints Johannes Evangelist and Johann Nepomuk from the beginning of the 18th century. The side altars around 1710 were transferred here from the old Marienberg church and placed across the corner in 1763. The southern side altar shows the picture Sebastianspflege by Johann Reiter (1728), based on the picture by Johann Michael Rottmayr in Raitenhaslach . The north side altar bears the carved figure of Mary enthroned with grapes and reading child , probably a work from South Tyrol from the 14th century, and above it shows the picture of the place vedute by the painter Carl Baumeister (1883). The pulpit , which turns diagonally from the choir into the nave , was created in 1763 by Johann Georg Kapfer for the symmetrically created pulpit- shaped oratory around 1750. This stage-like arrangement separates the chancel from the nave as in Raitenhaslach. There are Gothic fittings on the doors of the church and the sacristy.
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments. Dehio Bavaria. 4. Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , p. 181.
Web links
- Description of the church (web presence of the parish)
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 58.1 ″ N , 12 ° 43 ′ 46.5 ″ E