St. Laurentius (Wörth)

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Exterior view of the parish church of St. Laurentius

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius in Wörth an der Isar , a village in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , was built as a parish in 1935 and has been the destination of a pilgrimage to the mother of good advice since 1944 . The church is dedicated to St. Laurentius , deacon .

history

Building history

The St. Laurentius Church has an eventful history. The oldest remaining parts of the church probably date from the 11th or 12th century and are in the Romanesque style. In connection with the first documented mention of Wörth in 1339, there is a dispute between the pastors of Kirchberg and Hüttenkofen about who Wörth belongs to, which was ultimately decided in favor of Hüttenkofen. During this time, the Imperial Abbey of Niedermünster was one of the landowners in Wörth, later the Regensburg Cathedral Chapter and the Niederviehbach Monastery .

In the last third of the 17th century, the Romanesque chapel underwent a considerable expansion to the east to form a small baroque church . The remaining Romanesque parts were adapted to the baroque appearance. Both parts formed the so-called old Wörther church well into the 20th century. Since the Landshut – Plattling railway was opened in 1880, however, the population of Wörth had risen sharply; nevertheless, from an ecclesiastical perspective, Wörth still belonged to Hüttenkofen. This condition lasted until 1931, when the rectory was moved to Wörth. Since November 4, 1935, Wörth has been the official seat of the parish. Hüttenkofen was later attached to the parish of Niederviehbach and is now part of the parish of Niederaichbach .

The building, which is very small for a parish church, was enlarged considerably between 1936 and 1938 according to plans by the Munich architect Michael Simon. The extension is connected to the north wall of the baroque nave . On May 8, 1938 he was consecrated by the then Regensburg Bishop Michael Buchberger . As a result, the floor level in the old building was increased significantly and thus adapted to that of the new building. In 2005 and 2006 the church was completely renovated, including adding a small porch in the south and expanding the sacristy . In addition, some contemporary works of art were added to the furnishings of the church.

Pilgrimage history

Since the baroque altars of the old church were moved to the extension, the Wörth pastor Ludwig Fischl looked for other pieces of equipment for the old building. In 1943 he received a renaissance altar from the Schorn Chapel in Unterstein in Berchtesgadener Land for 300 Reichsmarks . On this was a portrait of Mary, which he had replaced the following year with a restored image of grace . He had found this in the attic of an old house in Niederaichbach and had it initially restored at great expense by the church painter Peter Keilhacker from Taufkirchen before it was installed in the church on the 1944 Christ the King's Festival . It is a copy of the miraculous image of the Mother of Good Advice in the Augustinian monastery church in Genazzano near Rome . In 1945, Bishop Buchberger blessed the new pilgrimage site during a visit. Since then, a Marian prayer and sermon has been held there on Sunday the 13th of each month . On October 26, 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the pilgrimage, the miraculous image was crowned by Auxiliary Bishop Reinhard Pappenberger .

architecture

Interior of the old church
Stucco ceiling of the old church
Interior view of the extension building

The oldest parts of the building fabric can still be assigned to the Romanesque style epoch. These are the western apse , which is extremely unusual for medieval church buildings, and the two western nave bays of the old church. This is followed by three baroque nave bays in the east and the choir room facing east , which closes on three sides and is also part of the Baroque style epoch. The entire old nave is spanned by a flat barrel vault with stitch caps .

This has remained undecorated in the western, Romanesque part, which is now used as a baptistery . The baroque yokes in the eastern part, on the other hand, are lavishly decorated with high-quality stucco work and are divided into fields by belt arches that grow out of volute consoles and are covered with different types of stuccoed flowers. These each have a framed field with stucco emblems, in it from west to east: the pelican , who tears its chest open to give life to its young, as a symbol of the sacrificial death of Christ; the baby Jesus ; the holy spirit hole surrounded by stucco ornaments . The side panels and the stitch caps are decorated with numerous putti , garlands, acanthus tendrils and branches of flowers. On the front wall above the choir arch two putti can be seen holding a medallion with the Sacred Heart of Jesus . Similar decorations can be found in the choir of the old church. The altar of grace is crowned by a stucco shell. So far it is not known by which master these stucco work, created around 1680, comes. But it could be someone from the circle of the Wessobrunn master Johann Schmuzer , who in 1699 plastered out the former Franciscan convent in Landshut in a similar manner .

The six-story, 24-meter-high tower is attached to the easternmost nave yoke on the south side. There is a candle chapel on the ground floor. The lower three floors rise above a square floor plan and already have an elaborate plaster structure , for example in a four-pass shape . Three more floors with beveled edges are built on top of this, divided by plastered areas . The top is a slightly cantilevered, modern pointed helmet with a tower ball and cross. The rest of the exterior is largely unstructured. In the corner between the tower and nave of the old church, a modern wooden porch was built during the renovation in 2005/06.

From the main road that passes by (former federal road 11 ), the north-facing modern extension can only be guessed through the high hipped roof , which clearly towers over the gable roof of the old church. The extension is directly connected to the old nave by a generous breakout in the north wall. The flat-roofed interior of the hall church is designed in romanizing forms. The side wall pillars divide the room into six bays and each form round arched arcades . Lateral passages are formed through arched openings between the pillar niches. The rectangular choir room attached to the north is slightly drawn in by the arch and does not quite reach the width of the interior space between the pillars. The elevated room includes two window axes. It is enclosed on three sides by the sacristy and can therefore only be illuminated from four small arched windows that are located at a great height on the sides.

Furnishing

Old building

Renaissance altar with the miraculous image of the Mother of Good Counsel

The altar of grace in the choir of the old church has a structure of two columns with vine leaves and Corinthian capitals . Between the pillars is the miraculous image of the Mother of Good Counsel. It shows Mary with the baby Jesus, who places his left hand on his shoulder and the right on his mother's heart. Above it is a rainbow as a sign of God's connection with people. The glass windows in the choir, which show the Sacred Heart of Jesus (left) and the Immaculate Heart of Mary (right), are foundations of the Wörth couple Matthäus and Regina Ammer from 1892.

On the left of the choir wall there is a piece of equipment that has a similar history to the miraculous image. It is a representation of the death of St. Joseph in the Rococo style , the mid-18th century is likely to have originated. It comes from the private property of a citizen from Hüttenkofen, who gave it to Pastor Fischl at the beginning of 1945. He also had the restorer Peter Keilhacker fix them in Taufkirchen, from where he picked them up by bike.

Other fittings in the old church include statues of the Mater Dolorosa and Christ at rest , which are attached to both sides of the opening to the extension. On the opposite wall of the nave is a figure of the risen one . All three are baroque, are privately owned and did not enter the church until the 1940s. In contrast, the four processional poles with small figures of the evangelists have been in the church since at least 1914.

New building

Choir room with baroque high altar (around 1680/90)

The three baroque altars from the old church, which were built around 1680/90, were taken over into the new building. The high altar, which has a four-column structure, shows on the altar sheet St. Lawrence, who suffered his martyrdom in 258 by being burned on a grate. The column structure is flanked by statues of Saints Florian (left) and Sebastian (right). The archangels Raphael and Tobias are shown in the extract, which is also accompanied by four pillars . The side altars are kept much simpler; they only have two pillars each. The left side altar is adorned with a figure of Maria Immaculata ; in the excerpt there is a painting of St. Joseph. The right side altar is adorned with a figure of St. John Nepomuk and a picture of the Archangel Michael in the extract .

Other Baroque pieces of equipment are the large choir arch cross, another crucifix and a painting of the Holy Family . The crossways panels by the Regensburg artist Erwin Schöppl date from the time the new church was built. The folk altar and ambo as well as some other works of art that were created as part of the most recent renovation were made by the sculptor Alfred Böschl , who lives in Adlhausen near Langquaid , in 2006. In the same year, the glass windows in the nave, which mainly symbolize invocations of the Lauretan litany , were also made. They are the work of the painter Ruthild Langhammer from Pressath in the Upper Palatinate . On the west side are shown from front to back: “mysterious rose”, “queen of heaven”, “morning star”, “chaste mother”, “exquisite chalice”. The windows on the east side show, among other things, the following motifs: "Golden House", "Gate of Heaven", "Ivory Tower".

organ

View of the organ loft of the extension

The organ on the south pore with a total of ten registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal , was created around 1936 by the organ builder Michael Weise from Plattling . The pneumatic cone shop instrument with free pipe prospectus and free-standing console has the following disposition :

I Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Gamba 8th'
3. Pointed flute 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Mixture III-IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C – f 3
6th Salicional 8th'
7th Dumped 8th'
8th. Pointed flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
9. Sub-bass 16 ′
10. Octave bass 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P, Super II / I, Super I, Sub II / I, pedal octave coupling

Bells

Four bells ring out in the baroque church tower. Today only one bell from the Baroque period is preserved. This was cast by Gordian Schelchshorn in Regensburg in 1696 and has a diameter of 74 centimeters and a weight of 250 kilograms. It bears the inscription: "HELPFUL MVETTER DIR KING I ZV GFALLEN LAVRENTI ZV HONOR THE ERZT (ore) SHOULD BE SOUND - AVS THE FIRE I AM FLOODED IOHANN GORDIAN SCHELCHSHORN IN REGENSBURG HAT ME GOSSEN · A: 1 · 6 · 96 · 96". Two bells from the early 18th century had to be handed in for war purposes in the winter of 1942/43 . These were replaced in 1951 by three new bells from the Johann Hahn foundry in Landshut. The heaviest bell at 590 kilograms is dedicated to the mother of the good advice and bears the inscription: "Maria you of the good advice, lead us the right path". The next smaller bell, dedicated to the parish priest, weighs around 320 kilograms and bears the inscription: “St. Laurentius parish priest, implore us for grace from the Son of God ”. The smallest bell of the peal is the death bell , which bears the following inscription: “St. Joseph stands by us to die well ”.

Surroundings

War memorial chapel in the cemetery (built 2006)

The church is located north of Landshuter Straße, which was formerly known as Bundesstraße 11. The walled cemetery extends mainly behind the church. In 2006, a war memorial chapel was built in the southeast corner of the cemetery , which also serves as a pilgrimage chapel to the Mother of Good Advice. Before that, the war memorial was housed in the western part of the old church, which was converted into a baptistery during the 2005/06 renovation. During this move, the large crucifix by the sculptor Guido Martini , who worked in Regensburg, was brought into the new chapel. This is a small rectangular building with two slotted windows on each side. A small, open porch, which is separated from the actual chapel space, carries an octagonal ridge turret with a flat pyramid helmet .

literature

Web links

Commons : Sankt Laurentius (Wörth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Baumgartner, pp. 1–7.
  2. ↑ a b c Parish community Niederaichbach-Oberaichbach-Wörth: Parish Church St. Laurentius ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Parish community Niederaichbach-Oberaichbach-Wörth: Mother of good advice . Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, pp. 230-232 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ a b c d Baumgartner, pp. 7–9.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Baumgartner, pp. 8–11.
  7. ↑ Bavarian organ database online
  8. ↑ Baumgartner, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Baumgartner, p. 11.

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 '26.2 "  N , 12 ° 20' 32.4"  E