St. Laurentius (Wolnzach)

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St. Laurentius is the Roman Catholic parish church of Wolnzach , a market in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm .

Foundation and building history

According to old documents, the Bishop of Freising, Hitto (811-835), gave Abbot Jakob from the cathedral monastery in Freising the church pledges of Wolamotesaha, today's Wolnzach. This church was probably the lay church of the Siegertszell monastery. There is probably a connection between this note and the remains of the foundations from the Carolingian period, which were found during the church expansion in 1912/13.

The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence . The high altar picture shows the martyrdom of St. Lawrence.

architecture

Gallery and organ

There are no more visible traces of the Romanesque foundation building from the 9th century, which was expanded around 1080. The building shows itself today inside and outside in its baroque redesign from the beginning of the 18th century, but from the outside the old structure of the Gothic east choir from the 15th century can still be seen. The building is a three-aisled hall church, 55 meters long and 22 meters wide. The mighty 60 meter high bell tower (56 m without ball and spike) over a square floor plan is covered with a double onion roof.

In 1912 the church was renovated and got its current appearance. Before that, the church tower wore a pointed helmet. In 1913 the Munich painter Josef Wittmann (* 1880 Windischeschenbach, † 1968 Munich) replaced the old, badly damaged ceiling paintings with scenes from the life of the church patron, St. Laurentius painted in 3 ceiling paintings. The ceiling painting 4 by Josef Wittmann shows Laurentius in glory. Above the organ, Josef Wittmann painted a ceiling picture of David, the singer of the old covenant and Cäcilia, the singer of the new covenant, united with the angels for the Gloria Dei, for the glory of God. Also the spandrels over the pillars with the enthroned four occidental doctors Jerome with the lion, Augustine with the heart, Pope Gregory and Bishop Ambrosius as well as the four evangelists Matthew with human beings, Mark, the interpreter of St. Peter with the lion being, Luke, the companion of St. Paul with the bull being and John with the eagle being, as well as the gray paintings in the stitching caps, which illustrate the painful and glorious secrets of the rosary, are by Josef Wittmann. In 1955 these ceiling paintings were restored by the painter M. Weingartner. Drafts for the ceiling paintings from 1913 by Josef Wittmann are preserved in the rectory. During the tower renovation in 2013, the green patinated copper of the tower onion was replaced, which is currently copper-colored.

Furnishing

inside view

The high altar with the image of St. Lawrence, the two splendid side altars and the pulpit date from the Baroque period. Christian Jorhan the Elder was among the artists involved. A Romanesque font from the 11th century has been preserved.

organ

The organ was built in 1965 by Michael Weise with 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The organ prospectus comes from the previous organ , which Ignaz Weise built in 1913. The disposition is:

I Manual C-g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Flautino 2 ′
Sharp V 1'
shawm 8th'
Wooden shelf 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Delicately covered 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Alfred Kaiser: Parish Church of St. Laurentius Wolnzach . Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-7954-6176-8
  • Jolanda Drexler-Herold, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.19 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87490-570-5 , p. 354-361 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ That was great (Wolnzach market quiz). Donaukurier, April 2, 2014, accessed on April 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '9.4 "  N , 11 ° 37' 37.2"  E