St. Katharina (Tödtenried)

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St. Catherine

The Catholic parish church of St. Katharina is a monument in Tödtenried near Sielenbach .

history

Tödtenried was first mentioned in a document in 1193. One church is documented in 1318. 1722 was Gothic predecessor of the present church demolished and built a new building, which in 1733 from Augsburg Bishop Johann Jakob von Mayr benediziert was. The apostle Andrew apparently had patronage around 1580 ; In 1762 and 1775, St. Catherine is named as the patroness. In the 16th century, an altar was Maria consecrated; In 1725 a right side altar was supplemented with an altar sheet by Georg Hörmann. This shows a copy of the miraculous image of Mary Help by Lucas Cranach the Elder . The pilgrimage to the miraculous image , of which various votive offerings in a glass shrine testify, survived the secularization .

Building description

St. Katharina is a pilaster- structured hall structure with a flat barrel and a retracted choir under a needle cap barrel . The northern gable roof tower from the 15th century has a stepped gable .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raab, Gabriele and Hubert: Pilgrimage routes in the Wittelsbacher Land: around known and forgotten pilgrimage sites . Wissner, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89639-795-9 .
  2. Sielenbach monuments. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, April 7, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 39.6 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 47.2"  E