St. Joseph (Allershausen)

St. Joseph
Denomination :	Roman Catholic
Patronage :	St. Joseph
Rank:	Parish church
Pastor :	Pastor Hermann Schlicker
Parish :	Parish of St. Josef Allershausen
Address:	Kirchstrasse 11 85391 Allershausen, Germany

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 59.8 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 9.8 ″  E

St. Joseph is the Roman Catholic parish church of Allershausen . It stands near the confluence of the Glonn and the Amper .

Since the place had been donated to the Premonstratensian monastery Neustift near Freising since 1190 , the abbots and fathers of the monastery were responsible for pastoral care in the place for about six centuries until the secularization in Bavaria .

At the end of the 18th century, Abbot Joseph Gaspar von Neustift had the parish church rebuilt on the site of the old church. It was consecrated on October 4, 1783 with the patronage of St. Joseph by Prince-Bishop Ludwig Joseph von Welden . In 1872 the tower was raised to 64 meters and the nave was extended to the west by a yoke, i.e. by around ten meters. The so-called "Dom des Ampertal" was thoroughly renovated in 1983 before the 200th anniversary of its existence.

The church has a single nave, the choir is closed in a straight line. The ceiling of the interior is decorated with four fresco depictions from the life of the church patron (from west to east):

1. In the annex from 1892 (above the organ), a picture by Anton Ranzinger painted in 1920 leads the viewer into the landscape around Allershausen with the associated branch churches . On the left a farmer is tilling his field with a team of horses. On the right, women, children and a soldier are praying in front of a devotional image that was hung in an old tree. The saint kneels on a cloud in the top left and stands up as an advocate for the concerns of the praying country people. He directs his prayer to Christ, who is represented in the picture by the cross in a halo.
2. The death of St. Joseph in the original Emporenjoch (with the entrance doors) was painted by Anton Ranzinger in 1920.
3. The large picture in the dome of the main room shows Joseph's marriage to Mary . It bears the artist's signature and date: M. Denzel Pinxit 1778 , in German: Michael Daenzel painted it in 1778. In the spandrels , four smaller medallions show the Western Church Fathers, Gregory the Great , Augustine , Ambrosius and Hieronymus .
4. The choir fresco, St. Joseph as the patron saint of Allershausen , comes from Michael Daenzel, but with ingredients from Anton Ranzinger. The kneeling saint brings two documents to the Trinity in the center of the composition, which probably contain the concerns of the community. The group of believers in the foreground on the right presumably goes back to Ranzinger. Opposite her on the left is a group of Premonstratensians. The palm and the obelisk (or pyramid) should not simply characterize the oriental ambience, but are to be understood as symbols for Mary as the bride of Joseph, mother and virgin (palm) and for the virginity of Mary (obelisk).

The high altar picture shows St. Joseph as patron of Allershausen and is also attributed to Michael Daenzel.

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  Entrance portal

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  The builder of the church

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  View to the altar in Lent

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  Main altar dedicated to Saint Joseph

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  Cross with Mary and John

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  Pulpit cross

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  pulpit

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  Latin inscription tablet

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  Ceiling painting

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  Ceiling painting

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  Painting above the organ

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  Coat of arms inside

The ringing of the parish church consists of seven bells. Only two bells have survived from the original bronze bells. Shortly after the Second World War - before the currency reform - five steel bells were purchased from a Bochum foundry .

Hans Spangler found the big bell that was fetched from the tower with the others in 1943 and was to be melted down for armaments purposes in a Hamburg foundry and brought it back.

The parsonage next to the church was rebuilt after a fire in 1748 as part of a large economy. When the old parish house burned down in 1957, the parish hall was built at this point.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jutta Tezmen, Brigitte Volk-Knüttel: Allershausen . In: City and District of Freising . Edited by Brigitte Volk-Knüttel, Anna Bauer-Wild and Jutta Tezmen-Siegel. Photographs: Wolf-Christian von der Mülbe (= Hermann Bauer, Frank Büttner, Bernhard Rupprecht [Hrsg.]: Corpus of baroque ceiling painting in Germany . Volume 6 ). Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7590-4 , p. 30-39 .
2. ↑ Older interpretation: calling of St. Joseph : Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria (=  Georg Dehio [founder], Dehio Association [Hrsg.]: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1990, ISBN 978-3-422-03010-7 , pp. 10 .
3. ↑ Obelisk / pyramid and palm can also be found in Johann Baptist Zimmermann's Ascension fresco in Grafing : Brigitte Sauerländer, Cordula Böhm: Grafing . In: Landkreis Traunstein, edited by Anna Bauer-Wild. District of Berchtesgadener Land, edited by Anna Bauer-Wild. District of Ebersberg, edited by Brigitte Sauerländer and Cordula Böhm (= Hermann Bauer †, Frank Büttner, Bernhard Rupprecht [Ed.]: Corpus of baroque ceiling painting in Germany . Volume 11 ). Hirmer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7774-2695-4 , p. 354-363, here p. 358 . This symbolic interpretation is based on a treatise by Filippo Picinelli (1604–1678).
4. ^ Parish of St. Joseph, Allershausen , Little Church Leader of the Parish.