St. Margareta (Mamming)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Margareta in Mamming , a village in the Lower Bavarian district of Dingolfing-Landau , is the modern successor to a late Gothic church that was completely destroyed in the Second World War . The church, built between 1947 and 1949, was the first church in the diocese of Regensburg to be rebuilt in the post-war years . Today, the furnishings in particular are considered to be an important example of modern sacred art before the Second Vatican Council and are entered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
In the 15th century, a late Gothic church was built on the same site, which was also consecrated to St. Margaret . Around 1740 it was baroque and in the 19th century it was regotid. This gave the church an essentially neo-Gothic interior. On April 29, 1945, the tower of the old parish church was hit so badly when the village was bombarded by the US air forces that it also brought down the nave and choir . The building was completely destroyed. Pastor Joseph Heinrich was also killed because he was hit in the abdomen by a shrapnel while he was about to raise a white flag. According to another version, he was shot by an SS man or a "defender" of the village who wanted to prevent the white flag from being raised.
The rapid reconstruction of the parish church is thanks to the great commitment of his successor Heinrich Kaiser, who was pastor in Mamming from 1945 to 1960, and the local population. The foundation stone for the building, which was designed by Friedrich Ferdinand Haindl , was laid as early as 1947 . While parts of the interior were also designed by Haindl, the Munich sculptor Josef Henselmann , who was President of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1948 , was responsible for the figural decoration. After only two years ago, on May 1, 1949 Bishop was Michael Buchberger the new parish church consecrate .
In 1986 the original slate roof of the tower was replaced by a copper roof for safety reasons . In the 1990s, the church was renovated and redesigned under Pastor BGR Johann Federhofer. Among other things, the church stalls were renewed, a new organ with 22 registers purchased from Orgelbau Sandtner from Dillingen on the Danube and three new bronze bells were raised, which today ring together with a fourth bell from the 55 meter high tower.
architecture
The exterior of the modern parish church is kept very simple in cubic forms. The nave, consisting of six bays , and the adjoining two-axis , retracted choir on the east side are only loosened up by the high arched windows. Only in the rear nave yoke are oval windows at the level of the organ gallery . On the east facade, immediately behind the high altar , there is a rose window with a diameter of 4.5 meters. All additions are on the north side: the two-storey sacristy is attached to the choir, the tower to the first nave yoke from the east and the war memorial chapel to the rearmost nave yoke . The nave is of a flat ton of wood spans that on simple pilasters resting. The choir, which has been raised by five steps, is closed off by a round arched, plastered barrel vault.
The single-nave church interior, including the choir, is 41 meters long and 16 meters wide. The tower has a considerable height of 55 meters and therefore characterizes the townscape of Mammings.
Furnishing
A six meter high crucifix , designed by Henselmann, rises in the middle of the high altar . Next to it are larger than life figures of St. Michael (left) and St. Margaret (right), both standing on a dragon as a symbol of evil. The Lamb of God with the victory flag is enthroned on the tabernacle . Left and right of the choir arch are the side altars with figures of St. Mary with the baby Jesus (left) and St. Joseph with a lily . All the altar figures were designed by Henselmann and are carved from poplar wood. Later they were covered with silver-plated copper plates by Henselmann's student Leopold Hafner . At around the same time, Josef Henselmann designed the high altar of Passau Cathedral .
The design of the rose window on the front of the choir was done by Josef Oberberger , who also designed two windows for the Regensburg Cathedral . The biblical account of creation is discussed . In the middle, God the Father is shown as the Creator of heaven and earth, all around various scenes from the Book of Genesis .
Stuccoed figures are attached to the pillars depicting the saints Sigismund , Laurentius , Wolfgang , Heinrich , Maria Magdalena , Katharina and Barbara . Further stucco figures of the "peasant saints" Wendelin , Notburga , Leonhard and Isidor can be found on the gallery parapet . In the middle is a stucco relief of the pilgrimage to Freising , which probably existed as early as 1500.
The Stations of the Cross cycle was designed in 1952 by the young sculptor Anton Rückel from Josef Henselmann's academy class. It consists of 14 ceramic reliefs , with a glaze coated glass and metal. In the war memorial chapel, which can be found on the northwest corner of the nave, there is a larger than life Pietà , which Henselmann created in 1925 and which was awarded at an exhibition for sacred art in Rome . Pastor Joseph Heinrich, who died when Mammings was shot at, is also buried in the chapel.
organ
The previous building, destroyed in World War II, had an organ that Ludwig Edenhofer had built from Regen in 1876. The single-manual instrument consisted of eight registers .
An organ by Michael Weise from Plattling was installed in the new parish church around 1960 . The cone chest instrument with pneumatic game and stop action , side-mounted game table and free-pipe prospectus has not survived . It comprised a total of 20 stops on two manuals and pedal . The disposition was as follows:
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- Pair : II / I, II / P, I / P, Super I, Sub II / I
Today's organ was created in 1995 by Orgelbau Sandtner in Dillingen an der Donau . The fully mechanical instrument comprises 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal. It has the following disposition:
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- Coupling: II / I, II / P, I / P
- Playing aids : Organo Pleno (for the principal parts of I and P)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument list for Mamming (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-2-79-125-5
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Parish Church of St. Margareta in Mamming . Online at www.kirche.mamming.de. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ^ Mamming St. Margareta . Online at kirchturm.net. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 ′ 59.6 " N , 12 ° 36 ′ 20.3" E