St. John the Baptist (Rott)
The Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Rott , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , was originally the parish church and was replaced in this function by the new parish church of the Holy Family, consecrated in 1965. The church dedicated to John the Baptist was built in the 15th century in the Gothic style and in the 18th century in the Rococo style. The stucco decor was carried out by Johann Michael Merk, a plasterer based in Rott. The frescoes were created by the painter Johann Baptist Baader from Lechmühlen, a district of the municipality of Fuchstal , who is also known under the name "Lechhansl".
history
The patronage of John the Baptist suggests an early baptismal church from the time of the Christianization of the region. It is possible that there was a so-called original parish as early as the 8th century before the Wessobrunn monastery was founded in Rott . The first parish church could have been a wooden structure. Around 1140, Adalbert von Rott is the first name of a pastor. In 1226 the parish of Rott was incorporated into the Wessobrunn monastery and looked after by this pastoralist until secularization in 1803. Only after the abolition of the Wessobrunn monastery did Rott become an independent parish again.
From 1724 to 1727 the dilapidated church was expanded under the Abbot Thassilo Boelzl and redesigned in the Baroque style. Under the abbot Engelbert Goggl, whose coat of arms is attached to the choir arch , the church was given its rococo style .
architecture
Exterior construction
The oldest part of the building is the west tower, which has Romanesque elements in its lower area up to the level of the coupled sound arcades and is dated around 1200. The upper storey, crowned with a pointed helmet, was probably built during the construction of the church in the 15th century. It is pierced on all four sides by two, slightly pointed sound openings, which are cut into a rectangular glare field with pointed arch friezes .
inner space
The church is a hall building with a strongly drawn-in, five-sided closed choir . The choir and nave are covered by barrels of stab cap. A gallery on which the organ is housed forms the western end of the nave .
Piece
In a stucco cartouche on the choir arch you can see the coat of arms of the Wessobrunn abbot Engelbert Goggl with the Petrus keys and a rooster as an allusion to his name. Two angels putt around the coat of arms, the one on the left holds a chain with a cross, the one on the right the abbot's staff . A gilded angel bust above the coat of arms bears the miter on the head.
The vaulted gussets of the choir are decorated with cloud fields in which angel heads and symbols of Christian virtues are embedded. Faith is symbolized by the cross, hope by the anchor and love by the heart. Another virtue, piety, is symbolized by a censer on a book.
The smaller fresco paintings in the choir and nave are framed by rocaille cartouches , the large ceiling paintings are surrounded by stucco frames.
Censer
cross
anchor
heart
Ceiling frescoes
The ceiling frescoes are dedicated to John the Baptist, the patron saint of the church. The choir fresco shows John in the dungeon, on the smaller side medallions on the right John is shown as a child with his mother Elisabeth and on the left his father Zacharias , who is writing the name of his son on a blackboard.
On the large fresco in the nave you can see the scenes of John before Herod , the dance of Salomé , the beheading of John and Salomé, who presents the head of John on a bowl. The signature of the painter "Johann Baader pinxit 1779" can be seen under the beheading scene.
The images in the stucco cartouches at the base of the vault show the evangelists with their symbols , Matthew with the winged man, Mark with the lion, John with the eagle and Luke , who paints the Madonna, with the bull.
Matthew
Markus
Luke
John
Furnishing
- The altarpiece of the four-pillar high altar shows a depiction of the baptism of Jesus .
- The figures on the walls in polished white depict St. Ulrich , the patron saint of the Diocese of Augsburg , to which the Rott parish belongs, Pope Urban, St. Catherine , at whose feet her attribute , the wheel, can be seen, the saint Barbara with the sword, St. Blaise and another bishop. The sculptures were created by Franz Xaver Schmädl between 1750 and 1770 .
Saint Ulrich
Pope Urban
Saint Barbara
Saint Catherine
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , pp. 1033-1034.
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 708-711 .
Web links
- Church guide Johanneskirche parish Rott (accessed on September 20, 2016)
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 19.3 " N , 10 ° 58 ′ 14.8" E