St. Johannes Baptist (Berg am Starnberger See)
The branch church of St. Johannes Baptist in Berg , a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Starnberg , was originally built in the 12th century. The church at Grafstrasse 4, directly on the edge of the steep slope high above Lake Starnberg , is a protected architectural monument .
description
The originally Romanesque building with one nave has a semicircular apse with massive quarry stone masonry . In the late Gothic period the roof structure and gable were raised and the gable windows were added. The church was baroque in 1658/59 . The windows were enlarged and the gallery was rebuilt, with a false ceiling being inserted. The lowered ceiling is decorated in the middle with a round stucco frame field and bordered with egg stucco strips . The onion dome was replaced in 1867 by today's roof turret with a clapboard top.
Furnishing
In the apse there is the altar from the 17th century with the rococo figure of John the Baptist from the middle of the 18th century. Next to it are the figures of St. Magdalena and St. Monika . On the right side of the archway is a late Gothic Mother of God. A mighty Baroque crucifix from the beginning of the 17th century hangs on the south wall of the nave .
The late Gothic relief (around 1500) with the death of the Virgin depicts the kneeling Mother of God absorbed in prayer.
literature
- Gerhard Schober: District of Starnberg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.21 ). 2nd Edition. Munich / Zurich 1991, p. 34 .
- Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Georg Dehio (founder): Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 118.
- Katja Sebald: The Romanesque country church St. Johannes in Berg , article in the Starnberg local edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on August 11, 2017
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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 2.9 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 10.8 ″ E