St. Maria Magdalena (Urspring)
The Catholic branch church St. Maria Magdalena in Urspring , a district of the municipality of Steingaden in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau , goes back to a Romanesque church building that was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century in the style of the late Gothic was changed. A special feature of the church are the monochrome paintings of the eight stations of the Cross on the gallery parapet.
architecture
Exterior construction
In the northern corner of the choir rises the bell tower covered with a gable roof. It is broken through on the upper floor by a round-arched twin window that rests in the middle on a column with a cube capital .
On the south side of the church is a square vestibule open to the south and east, also known as the portico . It is supported by columns with Doric capitals and leads to the portal. The sandstone arch above the entrance goes back to the Romanesque church building. It is carved with a ram's head and two lions, underneath you can see rosettes with a star and braided ribbon .
sign
portal
portal
inner space
The church is designed as a hall . The nave is of a coffered covered wooden ceiling and opens in a wide broken arch to easily retracted to two stages increased chorus . The choir is illuminated through high lancet windows and closes with a three-eighth closure .
The sacristy is set up on the ground floor of the tower , to which an arched door with iron fittings leads from the choir. Next to the left side altar, stone steps lead to a narrow door, the entrance to the tower. A disused entrance door with a wooden lock case has been preserved on the north side of the nave.
Gallery pictures
The wooden west gallery is marked with the year 1507 and has the signature “mang”. On the balustrade of the gallery eight picture panels have been preserved, on which the stations of the cross are shown in monochrome painting . The first station describes the parting of Jesus from his mother before his entry into Jerusalem . The scene refers to the Gospel of Mary , an apocryphal script of the New Testament not included in the Bible , whereby Mary is equated with Mary Magdalene, the church patroness . The next stations are: Jesus on the Mount of Olives, flagellation, crowning of thorns and Ecce homo . In the sixth station the meeting with the weeping women of Jerusalem, the fall of Jesus under the weight of the cross and the support of Simon of Cyrene , who helps Jesus to carry the cross, are summarized. The crucifixion and burial of Jesus follow.
Jesus says goodbye to his mother, Jesus on the Mount of Olives
Flagellation and crowning of thorns
Jesus falls under the cross, he meets the weeping women of Jerusalem, Simon of Cyrene helps to carry the cross
crucifixion
Furnishing
- The late baroque high altar from 1728 is framed by four marbled columns. The altar sheet shows the church patroness Maria Magdalena with her attributes , the ointment vessel, the scourge and the skull. On the altar extract you can see the coat of arms of Magnus Pracht, who was abbot of the Steingaden monastery from 1715 to 1729 . The figures on the side represent St. Nicholas on the left and St. Martin on the right . St. Nicholas holds a book in his hand with three golden balls on it, and a goose crouches at the feet of St. Martin.
- The north side altar is marked with the year 1663. The fourteen helpers in need are depicted on the altar panel , on the left is the figure of John the Baptist , on the right is St. Wolfgang , the Bishop of Regensburg . The Scourge Christ on the Altarmensa is a copy of the miraculous image of the Scourged Savior in the Wieskirche near Steingaden.
- The southern side altar dates from 1770. The altar panel shows the holy Vitus . The two assistant figures, St. Ulrich , Bishop of Augsburg, and St. Conrad , Bishop of Constance, are dated around 1510.
- The rococo - pulpit on the south side of the nave was probably made around 1750th
- On the north side of the nave hangs an early Baroque crucifix , four angels in goblets collect the blood that flows from the wounds of Jesus. A Mother of Sorrows stands under the cross .
- The oil painting on the north wall depicts the death of the Premonstratensian abbess Gertrud von Altenberg , daughter of Elisabeth of Thuringia , whose soul is received in heaven by the founder of the order, Norbert von Xanten .
- Under the gallery, a commemorative plaque made of red marble commemorates the fallen soldiers and those who returned from the First World War .
Saint Ulrich on the right side altar
Saint Konrad on the right side altar
Copy of the Scourged Savior of the Wieskirche on the left side altar
Saint Nicholas at the high altar
literature
- Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV, Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , pp. 1221-1222.
- Gerhard Klein: Branch church of the parish church Steingaden. St. Maria Magdalena in Urspring . Published by the Steingaden Community, Steingaden 2015.
- Hans Pörnacher, Mechthild Pörnbacher: Steingaden. The churches of the parish of Steingaden . (= Süddeutsche Kunstdenkmale , volume 27.) Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 2008, ISBN 978-3-87437-536-8 , pp. 32–33.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jesus' farewell to Maria ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.kirchengucker.de (accessed on September 3, 2016)
Coordinates: 47 ° 42 '8.1 " N , 10 ° 50' 7.3" E