St. Martin (Aicholding)

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin is located in Aicholding next to the castle ; Aicholding is now a district of the Lower Bavarian town of Riedenburg in the Kelheim district . The listed church is a branch church of the Riedenburg parish community.

history

The church is a Romanesque building from the 12th century. During this time, the Aicholdinger appeared as the local owner. Allegedly, however, a meeting between the Salian emperor Heinrich III was supposed to take place at this location as early as the 11th century (1052) . with Pope Leo IX. have given.

building

The hall church has 1 ½ m thick walls, which were built from ashlar stones with a cuboid height of 30 cm. It is about 8.5 m long and 4.6 m wide inside. The nave has a pitched roof and is connected to the recessed choir space by a 2 m wide arch, above which a so-called choir tower rises (2.8 m in square). The choir tower is covered with a pyramid roof. The nave is divided into two bays, which are covered with massive cross vaults . The top of the vault is 7.7 m in the nave and 5.6 m in the choir . The entrance door is on the south side. The roof is supported by corbels .

The swallowtail battlements on the Gothic west gable date from a later period ; the late Gothic pinnacle gables date from the 14th or 15th century.

Defense tower of the Church of St. Martin In Aicholding

The church was probably also used for defensive purposes, it has no windows on the outside and there were former loopholes in the courtyard . A wooden corridor used to lead from Aicholding Castle from the upper floor to the gallery of the adjacent church. The rectangular entrance opening is now walled up, but the holes for the supporting beams at a height of 5 m are still clearly visible. One could get up through a hole in the vault of the choir and defend oneself there by means of the existing loopholes (three to the north and one each to the south and west). The choir tower then formed the last refuge and served as a keep .

Interior

Around 1725 the church was redesigned in baroque style . Two windows were broken into the chancel and the nave on the south side. Since then, the false ceiling has been removed and a cross vault with stucco has been inserted. Today there is a double gallery on the west side. The church stalls with carved cheeks and twisted spheres as attachments also come from the Baroque, as does a wooden sacrificial box. The carved wood pulpit, which is decorated with angel heads and fruit threads, dates from the end of the 17th century. The choir and nave were covered with baroque stucco around 1725. Two angels hold up a stuccoed curtain over the choir arch and the view becomes clear to the (perhaps legendary) encounter between Emperor Heinrich III. and the Pope Leo IX. Two other angels sit on the fighters of the eastern corner pillars.

On the pillars there are flat stucco reliefs of St. John Nepomuk and St. Anthony of Padua . Scenes from the life of St. Martin are depicted on the ceiling . The altarpiece depicts St. Martin dividing his cloak. It is framed by two columns on each side, between which there are life-size stucco figures of St. Catherine (left) and St. Elisabeth (right).

Under a previous owner of the castle, the Munich music publisher Josef Preißler , the church was completely renovated around 1920; he was also able to buy back the Gothic bell, which had been alienated from the church (inscription: MARIA. LVCAS. MATEVS. MARCV. † HILF ).

Today the church is owned by the Church Foundation St. Johannes Baptist (Riedenburg) .

literature

Friedrich Hermann Hofmann: The art monuments of Bavaria / 2.13: The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg; District Office Beilngries; 2, District Court of Riedenburg from the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1908, pp. 7–13.
Hans Radplayer: Aicholding. District of Riedenburg / Upper Palatinate. Preissler, Munich 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

48.95968 11.69853Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 34.8 " N , 11 ° 41 ′ 54.7" E

[1] Parish community Riedenburg-Eggersberg-Thann-Schambach-Buch

[2] Riedenburg List of Monuments