St. Leodegar (Mendorf)
The St. Leodegar branch church is the Catholic village church of Mendorf in Upper Bavaria . It is consecrated to Bishop Leodegar von Autun (Remembrance Day October 2nd).
history
Dominikus (de) Bassus probably gave the order in 1696 to replace the medieval church of the type "Gothic choir tower church" with a new baroque building. Only the lower tower floor of the previous building remained as a choir room, but was given a new barrel vault. The new, wide, light-flooded nave reveals the style of the Graubünden home of its builder. This was probably from 1717 Giovanni Rigalia , a close colleague of the Eichstättisch-prince-bishop's building director Gabriel de Gabrieli .
The new church became the burial church of the Bassus family. After the death of Dominikus Bassus in 1704, the church was completed by his heirs; The four-bay nave was probably not completed until 1737 . The equipment then dragged on for decades.
description
The high altar is baroque, but was later heavily modified, the side altars were built around 1800 in the early classical style. The altarpieces were created by the Munich court painter Joseph Hauber (1766–1834). A figure of Christ as the Good Shepherd on the sound cover of the pulpit is considered to be the work of the Rococo artist Ignaz Günther (1725–1775) around 1750; the pulpit body with its three relief shields, which can also be attributed to Ignaz Günther, is likely to be older and from 1720. The cycle of the Cross, severely trimmed in 1952 and now simply framed, came from Munich workshops in 1864. In 1883 the painter Johann Stegmüller from Kösching in the Nazarene style and in 1912/13 by the Munich painter Anton Niedermayer in the neo- baroque style added the brightly colored pictures on the flat barrel ceiling of the nave. In 1952/53 major changes were made during a renovation; the revision of the altarpieces at that time (high altar: St. Leodegar; north side altar: St. Joseph; south side altar: Immaculate Virgin Mary) are now considered irreparable long-term damage. One of the oldest pieces of furniture is the organ case from 1700/10 with acanthus carvings .
Individual evidence
- ^ Mendorfer celebrate thanksgiving and patronage , donaukurier.de
literature
- Friedrich Hermann Hofmann and Felix Mader: The art monuments of Bavaria. District Office Beilngries II. Munich, Vienna: R. Oldenbourg, reprint 1982, p. 84, ISBN 978-3-486-50443-9 ( online )
- Friedrich Fuchs: St. Leodegar Mendorf (Schnell art guide No. 2208). Regensburg 1995: Schnell & Steiner, ISBN 978-3-7954-5957-4
Web links
- Church "St. Leodegar" in Altmannstein / Mendorf in the Altmühltal Nature Park on personenschiffahrt.de
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 26.7 " N , 11 ° 36 ′ 14.4" E