St. Margareth (dwarfs)

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St. Margareth from the south
inside view
St. Margareth from the north

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Margareth is located in the Kochler district of Zwergern in the Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen on the shores of Lake Walchen . The listed church is part of the parish of St. Ulrich Walchensee in the Benediktbeuern deanery of the Augsburg diocese . The address is Zwergern 5, 82432 Kochel am See .

history

The church was commissioned by the Augustinian canons of the monastery Schlehdorf built and on 1 August 1344 by a representative of the Bishop of Freising ordained . Once a month, a priest from Schlehdorf celebrated Holy Mass here . Around 1670 the church was redesigned in Baroque style : the windows were enlarged and the current altar was erected. Another renovation took place in 1778: today's onion dome was built, today's pulpit was built in and the wooden ceiling was replaced by a vault. The pews were made from the wood. During the secularization , the church was classified as “dispensable” and on June 10, 1807 it was bought by the three dwarf farmers under the condition not to use it as a chapel. From 1819, however, services were again celebrated in St. Margareth. Almost a century later, in 1902, the three farmers and their descendants ceded the church to the Free State of Bavaria for repairs, and the parish of Walchensee took over the right to hold church services. In 2014 the State Building Authority carried out a renovation of the roof and the outer facade.

Description and equipment

In the baroque-style hall church with onion dome in the west, a fresco from the time the church was built has been preserved in the recently completed choir . At the altar there are figures of Saints Sebastian and Rochus , the altarpiece painted in 1735 shows Saint Margaretha . In addition to the main altar, there is also the pulpit (north wall) in the church and a crucifix opposite .

Web links

Commons : St. Margareth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c List of monuments for Kochel am See (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. P. 7, accessed June 14, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b St. Margareth. In: bistum-augsburg.de. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Günther Krasnitzky: History of St. Margaret . Blackboard in church, July 1987.

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 38.9 ″  E