St. Margareth (Günzlhofen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Margareth , a Neo -Baroque hall building built using the late Baroque overformed late Gothic choir , is located on a hill in Günzlhofen in Upper Bavaria , a part of Oberschweinbach's municipality .
history
The parish church was built before 1500 in the late Gothic style and was redesigned and redesigned in the first half of the 18th century. In the years 1908 to 1921 a nave built in the neo-baroque style was added to the late Gothic choir . The old side altars were taken over. The sources do not reveal the time from which the tower originates.
Architecture and equipment
The church building is divided into a five-bay nave and a retracted three-bay choir with a three-eighth end. A square side chapel opens to the north of the foremost nave yoke. To the east, the church tower rises up, the octagonal upper floors of which show the Augsburg tower scheme. In the gable of the western façade (from 1921) there is a Patrona Bavariae imitated from Krumpper's original at the Munich residence . Vestibules are built to the west and south, the latter being walled up inside.
The nave has a flat barrel vault on the inside and a double gallery in the west, the choir and the side chapel are flat-vaulted.
Furnishing
The richly structured high altar (1730/40) in the early Rococo style is said to come from the monastery church of Wessobrunn, which was demolished in 1803 . In the middle there is a sculpture of St. Margaretha, the hll assisted on the sides. Korbinian and Sylvester. The lavishly decorated choir ceiling is adorned by the stucco made by Benedikt Heiß in 1723/24 and the fresco Der Traum Jakob (1720, Jakob Krenauer). The south side of the choir is decorated with glass paintings (around 1910) by the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt .
The two side altars were made at the same time as the choir vault fittings. In the left altar are the neo-baroque sculptures of Saints Peter (central), Andrew and Paul. On the right is a late Gothic crescent moon Madonna (1510/20), assisted by the neo-baroque sculptures of her parents Anna and Joachim. The large nave fresco represents the transfiguration of St. Margaretha , it was painted in 1931 by Oswald Völkel .
In the north side chapel there is an early Rococo altar from the second quarter of the 18th century. The painting shows the martyrdom of St. Bartholomew .
Funerary monuments
In the church there are several heraldic grave monuments and epitaphs from various families of the former Hofmark owners, such as the Perwangs, who sat at the disappeared Günzlhofen Castle.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , p. 417.
- The art and cultural monuments in the Munich region - western perimeter . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1977, p. 266.
- Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm: District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria. Volume I.23) . 2nd Edition. Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 , pp. 206-207.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 40.6 ″ N , 11 ° 8 ′ 37.5 ″ E