St. Johannis (Neukirchen / Triftern)

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St. Johannis (Neukirchen / Triftern)

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Johannis is a Gothic hall church in the Neukirchen district of Triftern in the Rottal-Inn district in Lower Bavaria . It belongs to the Triftern parish association in the parish church deanery of the Diocese of Passau .

History and architecture

Neuenkirchen is mentioned for the first time in 1333, although a wooden predecessor of the then branch church of the Triftern parish is suspected, which became the branch in 1866 and the parish Neukirchen bei Pfarrkirchen in 1886. The single-nave church is designed in the forms typical of the region from the late 15th century, with the older tower on the north side of the choir built in brickwork. The lower parts are still assigned to the transition style from Romanesque to Gothic. The tower shows stilted pointed arch friezes between corner pilasters on four floors . The following floor shows late Gothic shapes with a gable frieze and German band as well as coupled sound openings , the final floor is neo-Gothic with a pointed helmet over gables.

Inside, the arch of the choir shows that older components of a previous building were included. In 1914 the church was extended by two bays to the west, with the nave vault being largely renewed. The retracted choir is significantly higher than the nave. Both parts of the room are closed with mesh vaults. Small plate-shaped keystones are attached to the intersection of the ribs of the choir vault, and tendril paintings from around 1500 can be found in the fields.

After the interior of the church had been redesigned in Baroque style in 1690/91, the church was re-gothicized again in 1881, with a neo-Gothic high altar and two side altars being created. This neo-Gothic interior was removed again during a renovation in 1956/1957 and a new altar structure with the Gothic Vesper image was created. In the years 1982/1983 the entire interior with the altar, ambo , tabernacle and apostle chandelier was renewed again while maintaining the Vespers image.

Furnishing

An artistically valuable sculpture is the Vesper picture from around 1350, which stands on the new, artistically undemanding high altar. The emaciated body of Christ is depicted with grape-shaped wounds. More recent restorations have revealed that interventions were made on the heads, the neck of Mary and the veil during the Baroque period. In 1956 this carving came from a farmhouse to the church; it supposedly comes from the Capuchin monastery in Braunau am Inn .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Johannis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the history on regiowiki.pnp. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Information on the Neukirchen parish church on the website of the Passau diocese. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '4.6 "  N , 12 ° 57' 31.8"  E