St. Laurentius (Unterbrunn)
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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius in Unterbrunn in Upper Bavaria is a late Gothic building in the municipality of Gauting , which belongs to the Starnberg district and whose foundation walls date from the Romanesque period.
history
The church, which together with the village was under the rule of the Dießen monastery , was built with the lower masonry of the nave in the 12th / 13th centuries. Century erected. Around 1500 the nave was increased considerably and a new late Gothic choir was added.
In 1684 and 1862 the nave was lengthened by one yoke each. At the end of the 17th century the church received new side altars in the forms of the early late baroque and from 1731 to 1758 a comprehensive redesign in the style of the late Regency and early Rococo took place, in which the windows were given their current shape.
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The main fresco in the nave was created in the neo- baroque style . In 1862, the mighty west tower was demolished in the course of the second nave extension and a new one with a smaller base was built on the north side. The last interior renovation took place from 2004 to 2008.
Architecture and equipment
The church is divided into a five-bay nave, at the north-east corner of which the gable roof tower is built, over which the pulpit access leads, and a two-bay retracted choir. To the north of the choir is the sacristy and to the west of the nave there is a sign .
Inside, the nave is flat-vaulted, a richly stuccoed choir arch separates it from the choir, which has a stitch cap vault and an oratorio on the north side. The entire baroque church extension takes up the gallery.
Furnishing
The high altar from 1630/40 has late Gothic figures from 1500. In the altarpiece there is a seated Maria Queen of Heaven with child , assisted by Saints Barbara and Ursula. In the excerpt , God the Father is shown floating on a cloud. The side walls of the choir have a rich array of paintings and figures of saints from the Baroque and Rococo.
The north side altar from 1690 has a Pietà (around 1500) assisted by Saints Elisabeth and Apollonia . In the south side altar (1690) is a crucifixion group with accompanying figures of Saints Dionys and Ulrich . With the exception of the Pietà, all the figurines on the side altars were made by Heinrich Hagn.
The courtly rococo vault stucco (1758) in the choir was made by Johann Baptist Heringer from Wessobrunn , who framed the ceiling fresco Max Emanuel fighting the Turks under the protection of Our Lady (1758) by Johann Martin Heigl . The somewhat earlier ceiling and choir arch stucco in the nave in the late Regency style dates from 1741. The central neo-baroque ceiling fresco depicts Mary as Comforter of the Damned .
In the middle of the nave are the stucco figures of Saints Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xaver , made in 1731 by Joseph Krinner , in niches in the wall . The pulpit, built in 1770/80, is a very early example of classicism . Opposite it hangs a baroque (?) Crucifix with a Mater Dolorosa. The Stations of the Cross belong to the second half of the 19th century. The formerly rich stucco decoration on the gallery parapet was replaced by simple field stucco during the last renovation. On the north side below the gallery hangs an oil painting depicting purgatory .
organ
The organ, of which only the console is on the gallery, was built by Willibald Siemann in 1913. The entire organ is located in a closed organ chamber in the attic of the church and is swellable as a whole, as swell blinds are built into the sound outlets in the church ceiling.
Tombstone
The red marble tombstone from 1504 with the full-body relief of pastor Heinrich Stegmair is inserted into the church wall.
literature
- Gerhard Schober : District Starnberg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria. Volume I.21) . 2nd Edition. Munich / Zurich 1991, p. 160.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 1306.
- The art and cultural monuments in the Munich region - western perimeter . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1977, pp. 156–158.
- Information sheet for church visitors on the history and furnishings of the parish church of St. Laurentius.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 19.7 ″ E