St. Maria (Blumenthal)

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Castle chapel St. Maria
Coat of arms of Commander Johann Franz von Weichs

The Catholic branch church of St. Maria in the municipality of Aichach in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia was formerly the palace chapel of the Blumenthal Order of the Teutonic Order . The church is located in the only surviving south wing of the castle, which originally consisted of four wings and was surrounded by moats. The church consecrated to Mary now belongs to the parish of Klingen . On Easter Monday the church is the destination of the traditional Emm exit .

history

Blumenthal Castle was built around 1568 as the headquarters of the Commandery. Until 1822 it stood in the southeast corner of the current complex. After the secularization , the former Kommende Blumenthal was sold and the later owner had the moated castle demolished except for the south wing.

Under the command of Johann Franz von Weichs , the church was redesigned in the Baroque style between 1719 and 1721 . His coat of arms is above the portal and in a stucco cartouche on the choir arch.

architecture

Organ loft
inner space

The church consists of a single nave nave with rounded corners to the east and a slightly recessed rectangular choir . The semicircular altar niche was damaged when the castle was demolished and was rebuilt in the middle of the 19th century. The flat ceiling was renewed in 1967.

Stucco and fresco

The stucco banding with angels making music and the frescoes by Melchior Steidl were made around 1720. The frescoes are framed by stucco frames and depict angels playing music, St. Cäcilia and scenes from the Old Testament like the brazen serpent . The large ceiling painting shows the fight of the Archangel Michael against Lucifer .

  • Angels making music

  • St. Cecilia

  • Angels making music

Furnishing

pulpit
  • The altar dates from the early 18th century.
  • The classicist pulpit was created around 1770/80.

Tombstones

On the south wall, numerous tombstones from the 15th to 18th centuries are reminiscent of Commander von Blumenthal.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia (arr .: Bruno Bushart, Georg Paula) . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-422-03116-2 , p. 196 .
  • Georg Paula , Christian Bollacher: Aichach-Friedberg district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.87 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-87490-591-6 , p. 74-77 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 14.2 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 52.8 ″  E