St. Johannes Baptist (Schöngeising)
The parish church of St. Johannes Baptist is the Catholic parish church of the municipality of Schöngeising in the Fürstenfeldbruck district in Bavaria. It is a monument with the file number D-1-79-147-1. The first building is said to date from Roman times, when a Roman road crossed the Amper nearby .
history
A church in Schöngeising is assumed to exist in the 4th century. It is said to have already been consecrated to John the Baptist , presumably it was a St. John's baptismal church at the "statio ad Ampere", a bridge station on the Amper. Successor buildings in the following centuries are likely.
Records and documents of the diocese of Freising have only been providing evidence for the churches in the diocese area since 744. In one of these documents Schöngeising is first mentioned on June 29, 763. But the Christianization in Schöngeising is to be set far earlier, since the church and the place are already mentioned in 763.
In 1683 the dilapidated church was torn down and a new building in the baroque style began. Completion was delayed due to the demolition of the tower and the subsequent new construction, so that the church with its three altars was only consecrated in 1708 by Bishop Johann Franz Eckher (1696–1727). The parish church was built: a baroque hall building with a three-sided choir closure, an attached two-storey sacristy and a north tower with an onion dome.
From 1963 to 1968 the interior of the church was completely renovated again. The altarpiece from the main altar was removed and replaced by a figure of the Madonna (Maria Queen of Heaven) in the early Baroque style. The side altars, the baroque pulpit and the communion bench have been removed.
Restoration and renovation work was carried out for the last time in 2006/07.
Equipment of the church
The two life-size figures of St. John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, which stand on the side of today's high altar on consoles, have been preserved from the Baroque period. In the ship, the figures of Saints Barbara, Katharina, Nikolaus and Erasmus can be seen and a figure of the Madonna placed under the gallery.
The original high altar was replaced in 1803 by a baroque altar from the secularized Augustinian Barfüßer monastery Maria Stern in Taxa . The original two side altars were replaced with new ones in 1721.
In 1861 the interior of the church was redesigned. The Munich painter Georg Lacher painted new pictures for the main altar and the side altars, he designed a new ceiling painting (John the Baptist on the Jordan) and Stations of the Cross in the Nazarene style.
organ
The organ was built by Georg Beer in 1868 . It has eight registers , a manual and a permanently attached pedal . In 1987 it was repaired and slightly rebuilt by the Steinmeyer company . The disposition is:
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literature
- Volker Liedke, Peter Weinzierl: District Fürstenfeldbruck (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.12 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-574-8 , p. 224 .
Web links
- List of monuments for Schöngeising (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Fastlinger The church patronage in their meaning for Old Bavaria's oldest church system , Verlag des Hist. Association of Upper Bavaria, 1897
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 11.8 " N , 11 ° 12 ′ 43.5" E