St. Leonhard (Oberotterbach)
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The Roman Catholic branch and pilgrimage church of St. Leonhard in Oberotterbach , a district of the town of Rottenburg an der Laaber in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a rococo church built from 1753 to 1756 , to which there was previously lively pilgrimage activity. The church patron is Saint Leonard of Limoges (Memorial Day: November 6th).
history
Oberotterbach is mentioned for the first time in 871 , when Bishop Ambricho von Regensburg (864-891) and his Vogt Immo swapped goods from a priest Alawihus near Ottarpah for those near Holzhausen ( Pfeffenhausen community ). The first ecclesiastical mention dates from the 12th century, when a chaplaincy already existed in Oberotterbach . In 1207, Count Conrad I. von Moosburg bequeathed a court to the St. Leonhard Altarpiece from Oberotterbach, as his wife Benedicta was buried here . In the course of time this benefice was endowed with some estates and other possessions in the area. A list from 1559 shows that the St. Leonhard branch in Oberotterbach had assets around four times as large as the mother parish of St. Georg in Rottenburg. Around this time, in the middle of the 16th century, the chaplain could no longer be occupied and pastoral care was now carried out from Rottenburg.
While the patronage of St. Leonhard can be traced back a long way, the building history of the Oberotterbach church is largely in the dark. From the previous building of today's church only the patrons of the altars are known: in 1590 these were St. Leonhard for the high altar and St. Maria and St. Katharina for the side altars; In 1666 it was St. Leonhard, the Holy Trinity and St. Dionys and Anton; 1724 St. Leonhard, the Holy Trinity as well as John and Paul . The rococo building that still exists today, including the medieval church tower, was built from 1753 to 1756 according to the plans of the Landshut court mason Johann Georg Hirschstötter . The work was mainly carried out by the master mason Joseph Dierlinger from Rottenburg and the master carpenter Anton Gaißreither from Niedereulenbach . The church was built by the May 17, 1786 Bishop Valentin Anton Freiherr von cutting consecrated .
In 1888 the interior of the church was extensively renovated . By the company Haberland from Eggenfelden were frescoes cleaned, the stucco gilded , high altar, side altars, pulpit and crossroads newly caught and removed the forged guard before the altars and gilded. Under Pastor Alois Steinberger (1956–1976) the tower was renovated in 1962 and the exterior of the church in 1963, and in 1975 the church windows were renewed. Between 1978 and 1983, extensive renovations were carried out inside and out with the active financial and physical help of the local population. The original version from 1756 was restored, some of which had been heavily modified in 1888. In addition, the church received its post-conciliar celebration altar , which contains a relic of St. Leonhard in a glass shrine on the front . In 2008 another complete renovation of the tower was carried out.
description
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architecture
Starting from the four-story tower on the west side, the church building on a hill faces east. The tower substructure dates back to the 13th century, while the upper floors with the belfry are dated to the 15th century. Coming in from the pointed arch aperture structured tower closes at the top with a spire four triangular gables from. The nave , rounded at the corners, has three yokes ; the slightly retracted choir has two bays and closes in the form of a semicircular apse . The nave and choir are spanned by a barrel vault with stitch caps . On the west side of the nave there is a curved double gallery , with both floors resting on two pillars and the parapets each with stucco frames. The exterior is structured by pilaster strips .
Furnishing
The furnishings of the St. Leonhard Church are uniformly kept in the Rococo style. The frescoes were painted in 1755 by Ignatius Kaufmann from Teisbach , who probably also made the cross-way panels, which were attached in beautiful rococo carved frames . The ceiling fresco in the choir shows the baptism of St. Leonhard, on the 11.4 meter long and 5 meter wide painting in the nave you can see the transfiguration and miracle effect of the church patron. The altars, the pulpit and the figural decorations were made by the carpenter Amantius Fehlweckh from Rottenburg, the sculptor Johann Paul Wagner from Vilsbiburg and the barrel painter Georg Andreas Zellner from Furth im Wald . The shape of the six-column high altar (11.25 meters high; 10.80 meters wide) from 1758 fits in well with the rounding of the apse. Between the two middle pairs of pillars, the outer one made of twisted columns, is the altarpiece by Peter Jakob Horemans from Munich , which depicts St. Leonhard's ascent into heaven. It is flanked by the figures of Saints Johannes Nepomuk (left) and Franz Xaver (right). The mighty entablature, which stretches across the entire width of the altar in a curved shape, is supported by two further columns at the side. At the foot of these columns are the side figures of St. Blaise and St. Liborius . A wreath of clouds around a group of wooden figures of the Holy Trinity adorns the altar extract . Below the main picture is the richly decorated and gilded rococo tabernacle , which is adorned with rocailles and vases. There are curved attachments with vases above the side passages.
The two corner altars (8.10 meters high; 3.35 meters wide) are built with two twisted columns each. The left altar panel shows Saints Erhard and Erasmus , the extract picture shows Saint Notburga. The two figures can be assigned to the saints Pantaleon and Ignatius . The right side altar includes two life-size statues of St. Peter of Aleant and St. Salvator in addition to the main picture with the representation of John and Paul and the excerpt picture of St. Isidore . The folk altar, which contains a reliquary on the front , comes from the Hugo Preis company from Parsberg . The pulpit shows bas-reliefs of the four church fathers on the curved body , four putti can be seen on the base , which symbolize the four continents known at the time the pulpit was built. The sound cover with some angel figures is crowned by a life-size wooden figure of the Good Shepherd . The communion bench is a good Rococo carving that includes chest reliefs of the Sacred Heart , the Sacred Heart of Mary and the four Church Fathers. It also dates from around 1760, as do the church stalls with the carved cheeks and the two confessionals . A votive offering from the parish of Hohenthann from 1796, a cow on a pedestal, which is placed in the rear area of the nave, reminds of the earlier Leonhardi pilgrimage . The organ , which was overhauled in 1982 by the Rickert company from Regensburg , is still in the historical case from the time the church was built, which has beautiful shell carvings .
literature
- Josef Mayerhofer: The churches of the parish Rottenburg ad Laaber (= Small Art Guide No. 1402). Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1983.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mayerhofer, p. 13f.
- ↑ Churches - Filialkirche St. Leonhard Oberotterbach . Online at www.pfarrei-rottenburg.de. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
- ↑ Mayerhofer, p. 14.
- ↑ a b Mayerhofer, pp. 14-16.
Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′ 49.3 " N , 12 ° 2 ′ 46.2" E