St. Margaretha (Oberergoldsbach)

Exterior view of the St. Margaretha branch church from the south

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Margareta is located in Oberergoldsbach , a district of the municipality of Hohenthann in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut . It is essentially a late Romanesque building from the 13th century, which was expanded in the baroque style in the first half of the 18th century . The church with the patronage of St. Margaret of Antioch (Feast day: July 20) is a branch church of the Kläham branch within the parish of St. Peter and Paul in Ergoldsbach . It is registered as an architectural monument with the number D-2-74-141-25 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

The east-facing hall church was built in the first half of the 18th century using older enclosing walls. It consists of a three-bay nave and a drawn-in, three-sided closed choir . The white pilaster strips and the arched window openings act as a structure against the yellow-washed walls . The nave and choir are united under a common gable roof . The sacristy is built on in the southern choir corner , on the west side in the central axis the tower, which is also divided by pilaster strips . Its ground floor serves as a vestibule to the western church portal . The square tower substructure merges into an octagonal attachment at ridge height , which has round-arched sound openings and tower clocks on four sides . It is crowned by a strongly constricted onion dome . In the interior, the nave and choir are spanned by a flat ceiling over a hollow.

organ

The organ of the St. Margaretha branch church was built around 1840 by Johann Heinssen from Regensburg . In its current condition, the instrument goes back to a modification by Michael Weise from Plattling in 1927. The pneumatic cone chest organ with a classicist prospectus from 1840 comprises five stops on a manual and pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3 Dumped 8th' Salicional 8th' Gamba 8th' Octav 4 ′

Pedal C – d 1 Sub-bass 16 ′

• Coupling : I / P, super octave coupling, sub octave coupling

Web links

• Internet presence of the parish community Ergolsbach – Bayerbach
• Pictures of the St. Margaretha branch church in Oberergoldsbach on kirchturm.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Hohenthann (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
2. ↑ Bavarian organ database online .

Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '59.4 "  N , 12 ° 9' 26.7"  E