St. Magdalena (Hausbach)
The Roman Catholic branch church St. Magdalena is a late Romanesque, Gothic vaulted round church in the Hausbach district of Vilshofen an der Donau in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau . It belongs to the parish of St. John the Baptist Vilshofen in the Vilshofen deanery of the Diocese of Passau .
history
The church is lonely on the Danube and built as a round church, for which there is as yet no definite explanation. It may have been founded by the Ortenburg Count Heinrich I († 1241), who is said to have designed the building as a replica of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem after his documented pilgrimage to the Holy Land . A connection to a pilgrim hospital that was looked after by Johannitern is also possible. Only the connection to the Order of St. John in 1311 is documented. The hypotheses were drawn up by Clovis Gross and adopted in the Dehio manual . The original Marien patronage occurs several times in Romanesque round churches, for example in the Marienkapelle at the Marienberg Fortress in Würzburg.
architecture
The Romanesque surrounding wall has been closed by a high octagonal tent roof since the late Gothic renovation. The structure with a diameter of 14.6 meters received an increase of 1.8 meters and the pointed arch windows in the 13th or 14th century. The buttresses on the north side and the vault date back to the 15th century. The tower in front of it, on the other hand, belongs to the core of the 17th century. It was provided with a flat plaster structure from 1741 and was later given today's pointed helmet. The sacristy extension on the south side is post-medieval. From 2016, extensive renovation work on the roof and plaster was necessary to reduce moisture in the building.
The interior is a single-pillar room , the vault of which is supported by a central pillar. Wall pillars with pressed pointed barrels lead the Romanesque round room into a vaulted figure that is developed from an eight-part ribbed star. The ribs develop from the central pillar without a fight . The ribs on the wall pillars are taken up by delicate, polygonal consoles.
The room is made up of two preferred figures of late Gothic architecture - octagon and star. In favor of the symbolic meaning of this spatial design, the functional requirements of the church building were postponed. The pillar in the middle of the room restricts the unobstructed view and the free choice of location for the visitor. There is also no orientation through an altar house. The simultaneous three-pillar rooms like the church in Tettenweis and two-aisled rooms like in Aigen am Inn show similar characteristics .
Furnishing
According to the coat of arms of the painting in the predella, the high altar was created in 1670 and shows the deceased Maria Magdalena , in the main picture Maria Magdalena as penitent. In Altar extract a copy of Passau's grace image Mariahilf shown. The pulpit, built in a sturdy, octagonal shape, dates from the 16th century. In another niche there is a painting of Holy Sorrows from 1730.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria II - Lower Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 . Pp. 200-201.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Roof repairs to the Church of St. Magdalena in Hausbach have been completed. Report in Wochenblatt.de. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Information on the Church of St. Magdalena on regiowiki.pnp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 33.2 " N , 13 ° 14 ′ 22.1" E