St. Mang (Regensburg)

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St. Andreas and St. Mang (view from the Stone Bridge)
Interior of the church
Ceiling fresco attributed to Otto Gebhard (around 1740)

The St. Mang monastery and church complex in the Stadtamhof district of Regensburg goes back to a church in honor of St. Magnus , which has stood here since 1140.

history

A path chapel was mentioned here as early as 1051. Ulrich von Zell , who came from Regensburg, had left his relative, Canon Gebhard, a piece of land near this Magnus church in Stadtamhof, on which Gebhard founded a monastery in 1138 according to the rules of the Augustinian Canons of St. Maria in Porto Fuori near Ravenna . An altar consecration in honor of St. Andrew has been handed down for the year 1156 . In the 15th century, the historian Andreas von Regensburg worked in the monastery .

After the destruction of the monastery and the church during the Thirty Years' War in 1633/1634 during the fighting for Regensburg , a Loreto chapel was built in 1643 . There - in the Catholic Stadtamhof, which belongs to Bavaria - the pilgrimage to the "Beautiful Maria", which had dried up in the then Protestant Regensburg, was resumed for a few years . In the years 1697 - 1717 succeeded (probably headed by the Stadtamhof architect Andreas Pichel Meier) on the foundations of the former building of the construction of a single-nave church with zweijochigem choir . The church, which was initially furnished in the Baroque style , was decorated in the Rococo style after 1751 .

In 1730 monastery buildings were built and the Loreto chapel torn down. In 1803 the monastery was secularized . The church was initially a branch church of the cathedral parish and since 1912 it has been an independent parish church of the parish of St. Mang. Between 1993 and 1994 the interior was renovated.

The patronage of the parish church is St. Andreas. The second patron is St. Magnus.

The late Baroque shape of the six-column high altar was completed after 1751. The altarpiece of St. Andrew dates from around 1720. To the left and right of it are figures of St. Augustine and St. Monika .

The ceiling and wall paintings in the church choir were created in 1738. They were created by the Regensburg-born painter Otto Gebhard . The ceiling painting in the choir shows the calling of Peter and Andrew to be apostles .

The oak choir stalls decorated with carvings are dated between 1748 and 1750. Most likely it was created by the court sculptor Simon Sorg .

The College of Church Music is now housed in the monastery buildings.

literature

  • Franz Fuchs : Education and Science in Regensburg. New research and texts from St. Mang in Stadtamhof (contributions to the history and source studies of the Middle Ages, vol. 13), Sigmaringen 1989.
  • Anke Borgmeyer, u. a .: Monuments in Bavaria. City of Regensburg , Central Bavarian Printing and Publishing Companies Regensburg, 1997.
  • 100 Years Parish St. Mang Stadtamhof 1912–2012 , published by the Catholic Parish Office St. Mang, Regensburg 2012

Web links

Commons : St. Mang (Regensburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 29 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 57 ″  E