St. Laurentius (Pfaffenhofen near Altomünster)
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The St. Laurentius branch church is located in the Pfaffenhofen district of the Altomünster market town in the Dachau district ( Bavaria ). In this church there is a rare relic from Roman times, the so-called Roman stone. The church is a registered monument with the file number D-1-74-111-56 and is a listed building.
history
Early Freising Matriculation
There was a church in Pfaffenhofen as early as 1300. This is supported by the fact that parts of today's church building, the lower masonry, date from the Romanesque period. Pfaffenhofen is not expressly mentioned in the Konradinische Matrikel from 1315 . But the Sielenbach parish is said to have a branch ("Sielenpach ... habet I filiam"). Since two hundred years later, in the Sunderndorfer register of 1524 , the Pfaffenhofen church is referred to as the only branch of Sielenbach, it should also have been in 1315. The first mention of the church patron St. Laurentius can be found in this register from 1524 ("Silapach habet unam filiam ecclesiam s.Laurentii in Pfaffenhouen").
Visit report from 1560
In 1560, at the pressure of the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V, the Bishop of Freising, Moritz von Sandizell, ordered a visit, a comprehensive review of all pastors and parishes. The visitation was carried out by episcopal and ducal representatives. The reason was the religious unrest caused by Luther's Reformation (1517), which at least in parts of the diocese had led to the disruption of spiritual life. Through the visitation, the bishop wanted to gain a detailed insight into the religious situation of the parishes. In particular, it should be determined whether the pastors and the faithful still represented the Catholic doctrine or adhered to the new doctrine. In addition, the auditors were interested in the pastors' lifestyle and the extent and quality of their religious knowledge.
Reconstruction in 1650
A major renovation took place around 1650/70, shortly after the Thirty Years War . Perhaps war damage had made it necessary because the area was badly hit by war (and the plague) at the time. During this reconstruction, the church was also equipped in a baroque style.
Schmidt's register
In the years 1738/40 the Freising Canon Schmidt visited all the parishes of the Diocese of Freising and briefly described the branch churches in the Schmidt register named after him. Regarding the "Ecclesia filialis s.Laurentii in Pfaffenhofen" he remarks that the church is a ruinous building (= in need of repair) (Ecclesia haec ruinosae structurae). At that time it had only one altar (habet aram unam), which of course was dedicated to the church patron Laurentius. Services were held on the Laurentius Festival (August 10th), when the patronage and parish fair were celebrated, as well as in the early morning of Christmas. There was an ossuary at the cemetery. There was no sacristy . Two consecrated bells hung in the tower. The income was administered by the pastor of Sielenbach and the governor of Aichach.
In the following decades and centuries the church will have been renovated several times. In any case, the two side altars were not erected until after 1740.
Modern times
The last major restoration took place in 1972/1973, when the sacristy attached to the choir was demolished. The new consecration took place on March 10, 1973 Auxiliary Bishop Count Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen.
architecture
The lower wall area (up to a height of three meters) is twice as thick as the masonry above. This part probably dates from the 13th century. The single-nave church has a strongly drawn-in rectangular choir, to the south-east of the nave there is a slender tower with a tent roof.
Furnishing
In the choir there is a Laurentius altar, the left side altar is St. Mary (Queen of Mary) and the right one to St. Leonhard consecrated.
Some notable sculptures adorn the church:
- a late Gothic sculpture of St. Laurentius (1450),
- a simple Romanesque pietà ,
- a naive Laurentius (with rust), probably from the Romanesque style epoch,
- Maria Magdalena with anointing vessel (1670/80),
- a late Gothic figure of St. Vitus .
Roman stone
A special feature is the so-called Roman stone , the most outstanding testimony to the Roman era in the entire Dachau district. It is a cube capital that crowned a Roman grave monument from the 3rd or 4th century. The memorial is likely to have stood on Römerstrasse, which came from the direction of Petersberg and passed nearby, leading to Augsburg. This Roman stone is said to have been discovered in 1905 in the Wollomoos church.
literature
- Wilhelm Liebhart : Pfaffenhofen . In: Wilhelm Liebhart (ed.): Altomünster, monastery, market and community . Plabst, Altomünster 1999, ISBN 3-00-005192-9 , p. 865 ff . (with references).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Pfaffenhofen near Altomünster - St.Laurentius - churches and chapels in the Dachau region. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 37.2 " N , 11 ° 12 ′ 16.4" E