St. Martin (Bernried am Starnberger See)

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St. Martin Church
Bell tower with onion dome

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Bernried am Starnberger See , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau , was the collegiate church of the Augustinian canons from its construction in the early 12th century until it was secularized in 1803 . The church, which is consecrated to St. Martin of Tours , is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

history

The oldest reference to a church in Bernried is a Carolingian choir screen, which was discovered during renovation work in 1970/72. It suggests that a monastery or a manorial church existed here as early as around 800 . The first written mention of a church comes from the early 12th century. From this first verifiable church building only the square tower substructure remains. In 1659, the provost Johannes Riedl (1638–1675) - while retaining the Romanesque outer walls - initiated the baroque renovation of the church, which was consecrated in 1663 by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Kaspar Zeiler . It is not certain whether Caspar Feichtmayr worked as an architect. The Munich builder Georg Hagen and Wolf Reiter from Schliersee , who were already involved in the construction of the monastery buildings, should also be considered. After a lightning strike in 1734, the upper floors of the tower had to be removed; they were only rebuilt between 1866 and 1877.

architecture

Exterior construction

West portal

The church forms the northern end of the four-sided monastery complex. The bell tower, which rises on the northwest corner of the nave , is crowned by a short, octagonal structure with an onion dome. The longitudinal sides are divided pilasters and partly walled arched windows with overlying Blend windows . The west facade is characterized by a portal edikula . The columns, which stand on high plinths and are equipped with capitals , support an entablature on which a cranked , segment-arched gable rests. The church doors from the late 18th century are decorated with classicist carvings. The donation of St. Martin's coat is shown on the arch field.

  • Church doors with carvings

  • Cloak donation from St. Martin

inner space

inner space

The interior is a hall with a closed choir , to which a strongly drawn-in choir arch opens. The coats of arms of the Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria and his wife Henriette Adelheid of Savoy are placed above the choir arch .

The walls are divided by arches and pilasters with cranked cornices , they are decorated with Ionic capitals in the nave and Corinthian capitals in the choir . The choir and nave are covered by arched barrels . The vault of the choir is stucco decorated with geometric fields , the ceiling of the nave has a painted field division, which was renewed in 1861/62. A circumferential gallery is built into the choir and rests on volute-shaped consoles .

  • Choir

  • pulpit

Furnishing

Altar of the Holy Tribe

Altar of the Holy Tribe

A late Gothic winged altar is set up in a niche on the south side of the nave , which was probably made in a Munich workshop around 1490/1500. The middle part has a relief depicting the holy clan . On the painted inside of the two wings Maria Cleophae is depicted on the left and Maria Salome on the right . When closed, the meeting between Anna and Joachim at the Golden Gate can be seen on the outside of the wings .

organ

Organ loft

The first mention of an organ in the church comes from the year 1564. After the church was baroque, a new organ was installed in 1665, the prospectus of which has been preserved to this day, probably by Christoph Egedacher . In 1734 the instrument was damaged by a heavy thunderstorm, four years later the Munich-based Ignaz Philipp Hillenbrand built a new movement into the old prospectus. The case was in 1741 by Mathias new Alletsee taken . In 1835, 1856 and 1862 the organ was repaired: the first by Paul Hörmann from Landsberg , the other two by Max März from Munich. The instrument was also repaired in 1879, this time combined with an extension by Georg Beer from Erling (Andechs) . Finally in 1912 August Behler from Munich built a new organ with 20 registers in the old case. In 1977 several registers were expanded to achieve higher timbres , but around 1995 the Behler organ was reconstructed by Dieter Schingnitz from Iffeldorf .

Today's organ sounds highly romantic . The 1088 pipes are played with a pneumatic action . The disposition is:

I main work C – f 3
Transverse flute 4 ′
Dolce 8th'
Covered 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Principal 8th'
Bourdun 16 ′
Octav 4 ′
Flautino 2 ′
Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – f 3
Aeoline 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Lovely covered 8th'
Violin principal 8th'
Forest flute 4 ′
Fugara 4 ′
Pedal C – e 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, Sub II / I, Super II / I
  • Playing aids : Fixed combinations (p, mf, f, Tutti)

Further equipment

  • The four-column high altar dates from 1659/63. The altar panel depicts the glory of St. Martin, the patron saint of the church. It was made by Franz Seraph Kirzinger in 1795 and bears the painter's signature. At the altar are the figures of the church fathers , in the excerpt you can see a crescent moon Madonna .
  • The painting on the north side altar depicts the Holy Walk .
  • The painting on the south side altar shows the vision of St. Augustine .
  • Next to the north side altar is a fragment of a Carolingian choir screen, which is decorated with tendril motifs, sun wheels and grapes. The stone slab is dated around 800.
  • The pulpit is marked with the year 1660. Two caryatid angels carry the sound cover on which the figure of the apostle Paul is crowned.
  • The figure of the blessed Herluka von Bernried is dated to the 15th century. She is shown as a nun with a flower in her hand.
  • The figure of a Madonna in a halo comes from the late 15th century.
  • The large crucifix from the mid-18th century is attributed to Franz Xaver Schmädl .
  • The four processional flags from the mid-18th century depict scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary.

  • High altar

  • Processional flag

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish St. Martin - Bernried Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ^ A b Martin Hackl, Ulrich Graf von Brühl-Störlein: The Behler organ from 1912 in the parish church of St. Martin zu Bernried. (PDF; 224 kB) In: pfarrei-bernried.de.

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 45.4 ″  E