St. Catherine (Arth)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Katharina in Arth , a district of the municipality of Furth in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a hall church that was built between 1708 and 1710 by master bricklayer Hans Widtmann from Pfeffenhausen on the foundations of a medieval predecessor building and this year its completion was dedicated . Building repairs were carried out in 1775 by the Landshut master mason Felix Hirschstötter and in 1784 by the Rottenburg master mason Joseph Dirlinger. It has been consistently preserved to this day in the Baroque style and registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-132-3 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . As a branch church, it is assigned to the Curatie St. Othmar in Pfettrach , which is cared for by the mother parish of the Visitation in Altdorf .
Location and surroundings
St. Katharina is in an exposed position around 15 meters above the village of Arth on a steeply sloping spur of the terrain between Pfettrach and Further Bach, the confluence of which is around 400 meters to the southeast. The church is surrounded by the old Arther cemetery. The new Arther cemetery is located around 100 meters northwest.
description
architecture
The east-facing hall construction comprises a nave with four bays and a not separated, two-bay choir ending in three polygon sides , which are united under a common gable roof . The tower with a square floor plan is built on the east side, i.e. at the apex of the choir, and contains the sacristy on its ground floor . An octagonal attachment with dials in all four directions rises above the square component , above each a round-arched sound opening and a transverse oval window. On the other four sides, instead of the sound openings, there are round-arched blind arcades , also each with an oval window. A cornice conveys the transition to the baroque, clapboard-covered onion dome , which forms the top of the tower. The exterior is painted yellow and structured by white pilaster strips and arched window openings. A small vestibule containing the church portal is built on the west side .
The interior is structured by pilasters and vaulted by a needle cap barrel with stucco frame fields in the choir . The chancel is separated from the nave by a round choir arch .
Furnishing
The interior is dominated by the Baroque high altar from the second half of the 17th century, which came to Arth from the parish church of St. Johann Baptist in Eching in 1710 . It was extensively restored in 1884 . Instead of an altar sheet, there is a late Gothic , life-size wooden figure of St. Mary , which is dated to around 1470. Mary carries the scepter in her left hand, the naked child in her right . The heads are not original. This sculpture is flanked by figures of the church patroness Katharina (Remembrance Day: November 25th) and Saint Barbara from around 1520. They were probably created at the same time as the Madonna figure on the high altar of the Altdorf Frauenkirche and are attributed to the Landshut sculptor Jörg Rot, a colleague of Hans Leinberger . It is possible that they were previously also housed at the high altar of the Altdorfer Frauenkirche.
The two two-column side altars are made in the Rococo style and are likely to have been made around the middle of the 18th century. The north side altar is dedicated to John the Baptist and John the Evangelist , the south to St. Helena . There is also a late Gothic wooden figure of St. James the Elder. Ä. from around 1510.
The pulpit was created at the same time as the high altar and also comes from the Echingen parish church. On the polygonal body there are reliefs of the four evangelists between winding pillars . The confessionals date from around 1770 and are decorated with rococo shells . On the choir arch there is a rosary Madonna from around 1500, who carries the naked child in her left hand and hands him an apple with her right . The church door, which is equipped with a large Gothic bolt basket and a door pull , marked with the year 1461, is of particular interest .
organ
In 1922, St. Katharina received an organ from Willibald Siemann , which has been preserved to this day. The cone chests instrument has pneumatic play and register contractures and has a free-standing gaming table . A total of four registers are distributed over a manual and pedal . The classicist prospectus dates from around 1835 and was already in use on the predecessor instrument made by the Landshut organ builder Joseph Schweinacher . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : I / P, super octave coupling
- Playing aids : Tutti
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Anton Eckardt (Hrsg.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, pp. 43-45 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 12 ° 3 ′ 33.2 ″ E