St. Laurentius (Egern)
St. Laurentius (Egern) is a Catholic parish church in Rottach-Egern in the Miesbach district in Upper Bavaria . The originally Gothic hall church, rebuilt in the Baroque style, belongs to the Tegernsee-Egern-Kreuth parish in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .
History and architecture
The church belonged to the Tegernsee Monastery until 1809 . A church built in 1111 by the abbot Aribo was probably rebuilt in 1466 by the monastery builder Alexander Gugler. In 1671/72 the church was redesigned in baroque style and expanded to the west in connection with an increasing pilgrimage in 1707/08. The tower superstructure was built in 1781. The secularization of 1803 brought the end of the responsibility of the monastery for the parish of Egern. The pilgrimage ended without its sponsorship or because of government bans. The exterior was renovated in 1988 and the interior in 1994.
The church is a hall church with a slightly retracted choir and a north tower with a pointed helmet. On the southern outer wall of the nave there is a fresco with the crucifixion of Christ and the donor Jörg Erlacher from 1474.
Inside the church is closed by a ribbed vault over Gothic wall templates. The interior was redesigned in baroque style in 1672 by the bricklayer and plasterer Martin Fischer from Schliersee , the ribs being removed, the upper part of the wall templates encased in half-columns and the ceiling being stuccoed with a geometric frame structure, laurel threads, hearts and rosettes.
Furnishing
The high altar was made in 1689 by the Kistler Gregor Höss in Egern. The artistically valuable altarpiece by Hans Georg Asam depicts Saint Laurentius as intercessor of the poor souls . Saints Sebastian and Eustachius were made by an unknown sculptor from Schliersee and the four columns and the extract figures were added in 1746 by Michael Sternegger. On the people's altar is a late Gothic wooden panel with the handkerchief of Veronica , which is held by the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul.
The side altars were created in 1685/86; the left shows an image of the grace of Mary from the 15th century, flanked by the figures of St. Joachim and St. Anna and with St. Joseph in the excerpt. The right altar is decorated with a sculpture of St. Mary Magdalene , flanked by Saints John the Baptist , Aloysius and Barbara .
The pulpit was created in 1751 by Michael Hagn from Miesbach and framed by Melchior Rixner from Tegernsee. Opposite is a wooden relief depicting the death of the Virgin from the end of the 15th century.
Standing figures and busts from the 18th century are set up on the nave walls, a rococo crucifix with life-size Gothic assistants above the entrance. The lower gallery parapet shows miraculous images from 1711 with reference to the Egerner Mariengnadenbild. A votive picture from 1705 commemorates the Sendlinger Bauernschlacht . The organ is a work by Anton Staller from 1996 with 28 stops on three manuals and pedal . It stands in the case of an organ by Anton Bayr from 1746, which has been enlarged by two side panels.
Surroundings
The church is surrounded by a cemetery in which numerous, partly nationally known personalities are buried, including the writers Ludwig Thoma and Ludwig Ganghofer , the opera singer Leo Slezak and his wife Elsa Wertheim , the historian Karl Alexander von Müller , the Himalayan mountaineer Karl Herrligkoffer , the Russian Count Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Adlerberg , Amalie von Lerchenfeld , Joseph Ennemoser and some Henckel von Donnersmarck (Guidotto 1888–1959, Anna 1884–1963, Kraft 1890–1977, Guido 1909–1976).
The cemetery chapel (now the baptistery) was built in 1508 in honor of the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus and renovated in 1966. The altar there from 1742 shows the title saints and figures of Saints Francis of Assisi , Michael, Leonhard and Johann Nepomuk on the altar sheet .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , pp. 227-228.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the history of the Laurentiuskirche on the pages of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
- ^ Organ of St. Laurentius (Egern) on organ index. Retrieved September 20, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 43.8 " N , 11 ° 45 ′ 42.9" E