St. Johann Baptist (Asch)

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Parish Church of St. Johann Baptist
inner space
Gallery
Wood paneling in the choir

The Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist in Asch , a district of the municipality of Fuchstal in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , is a late Baroque church that was built in the early 18th century on the site of an early medieval church. The church consecrated to John the Baptist is a protected architectural monument .

history

A pastor in Asch is mentioned for the first time in 1241. In 1428 a new church was built, of which the choir and the substructure of the tower have been preserved. At the end of the 17th century the tower was added, presumably under the direction of the Wessobrunn master builder Caspar Feichtmayr . A new nave was built under Joseph Schmuzer in 1720 , with the St. Stephan women's monastery in Augsburg probably bearing the construction costs.

During the archaeological excavation inside the church in 1981, evidence of a Romanesque predecessor building and an early medieval wooden church probably from the 7th / 8th centuries were found. Century. Under the wooden church, easted body graves without gifts that had been dug a little earlier were discovered.

architecture

Exterior construction

The west facade is broken through by two small round windows, in the gable two round-arched loading hatches open on top of each other. The large arched windows of the nave are cut into rectangular glare fields. In the southern corner of the choir, a two-storey sacristy covered by a pent roof is attached to which the oratorio staircase and the pulpit corridor are connected. There is a sign on the north side . The bell tower with a rectangular floor plan and octagonal structure and onion dome rises in the northern corner of the choir . A frieze of clover-leaf arches runs under the roof of the choir .

inner space

The nave , a hall structure divided into four bays , is covered, like the choir, by a flat barrel cap that rests on pilasters that barely protrude from the wall . The two-bay choir closes at five-eighths . The upper floor of the choir opens to an oratory on the south side, and a railing is simulated on the north side. The column-supported double gallery in the west was built in 1840.

Ceiling paintings

The baroque ceiling paintings were exposed again in 1961. They were made in 1720 and painted over in 1848. Religious saints are depicted in the choir, in the nave the homage to Maria Immaculate and the vision of John of Patmos and above the gallery the marriage of Mary with the dove of the Holy Spirit . The side medallions contain scenes from the life of John the Baptist.

  • Ceiling painting in the choir, religious saints

  • Ceiling painting in the nave, Maria Immaculata

  • Ceiling painting in the nave, vision of John of Patmos

  • Ceiling painting over the gallery

Piece

The colored band, leaf and latticework stucco also comes from the time the church was built and was created by Joseph Schmuzer. The stucco decor on the gallery was supplemented by Fritz Wirth in 1912.

  • Stucco ceiling in the choir

  • Stucco ceiling in the choir

  • Stucco decor on the choir arch

  • Stucco decoration and medallion in the nave

Furnishing

Choir stalls
  • The altar sheet of the previous baroque altar is integrated into the four-column high altar from 1823 . It was executed in 1697 by the Augsburg church painter Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner and depicts the Holy Family and John the Baptist with the temple servants Hannah and Simeon .
  • The side altars were made in 1831, the altar retables in the neo-coco style date from 1912. The sculptures in the niches, the Madonna figure on the north altar and John the Baptist on the south altar were probably created around 1710.
  • The baroque furnishings include the marbled and partly gilded wood-carved pulpit , which was installed in 1727, and the two confessionals .
  • The choir stalls and the wood paneling in the choir, which are made in the so-called plait style , come from the second furnishing phase in 1825/30 . The communion grille, the oratorio grille and the baptismal font and holy water basin in the nave niches with frames made of red marble also date from the same period . The white-framed wooden figures of John the Baptist and Moses in the choir are dated around 1826.
  • The late Gothic crucifix on the north wall of the nave from around 1520 is complemented by a painful Mother of God from 1894.

  • North side altar

  • Crucifix and mater dolorosa

  • confessional

  • South side altar

Epitaph for Heinrich Völkher von Freiberg

The sandstone epitaph for Heinrich Völkher von Freiberg († 1596) and his two wives was moved to the outer wall of the choir in 1899 . From the originally three-part epitaph, which was formerly set into the inner wall of the choir, only the middle section remains. A relief representation framed by pilasters shows the deceased kneeling under a crucifix.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 48.8 ″  E