St. Martin (Batzenhofen)

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Parish church St. Martin in Batzenhofen

St. Martin is a Catholic parish church in the Gersthofen district of Batzenhofen . It is protected as an architectural monument and belongs to the dean's office Augsburg-Land of the diocese of Augsburg .

Building history

The first church building in Batzenhofen, consecrated to Martin von Tours , is believed to have been in the first half of the 8th century; the first documentary mention dates back to 969. Today's church building, elevated above the Schmuttertal , goes back to various construction phases. The choir and the lower floors of the tower date from around 1500. Under the rule of the Augsburg women's monastery St. Stephan , the nave was rebuilt in the form of a hall from 1718 to 1720 and the retracted choir was raised, presumably by the Augsburg builder Jörg Paulus. In 1722 the church was consecrated . According to plans by Franz Xaver Kleinhans , the tower to the south was given a copper-covered, octagonal and richly articulated onion dome instead of the late Gothic saddle roof by Joseph Meitinger in 1737 .

Restorations were carried out in 1793, 1893, 1946/47, 1988 and from 2000 and 2012. The associated vicarage Batzenhofen is located to the south-west .

Furnishing

inner space

The altars, the pulpit and the church stalls are made of wood and provided with inlays , the ceilings and walls were matched with pastel shades in the painting by Johann Georg Kuen. In addition to the life-size figures of St. Martin, the high altar also shows St. Nicholas, the altarpiece of St. Martin with the goose from 1723 was created by Johann Georg Bergmüller . The Pietà on the right side altar is dated to the 14th century, the Vespers above it to the 16th century. The figures of Saints Barbara and Johannes Nepomuk date from the second half of the 19th century. During the renovation in 1947, Otto Pöppel gave the choir new wall paintings and ceiling paintings.

Bells

The first bells mentioned in 1859 were cast in 1683, 1722 and 1751. Today's bell ringing from 1948 with five bronze bells comes from the Johann Hahn bell foundry in Landshut, they have the chimes es', ges', as', b 'and des'.

organ

Madonna

The organ was built around 1920 by the Julius Schwarzbauer workshop in Mindelheim as a pneumatic cone-shaped organ with double bellows and a five-section prospectus . The condition and the narrow construction are seen as problematic.

I main work C – f 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Covered 8th'
4th flute 8th'
5. Salicional 8th'
6th Octav 4 ′
II Swell C – f 3
7th Violin principal 8th'
8th. Lovely covered 8th'
9. Salicional 8th'
10. Aeoline 8th'
11. Voxcoelestis 8th'
12. Transverse flute 4 ′
13. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Piccolo 2 ′
Pedals C – d 1
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. Covered 16 ′
17th Violin bass 8th'
18th cello 8th'

The above-mentioned organ was replaced in September 2019 by a new building from Robert Wech, Buchloe, whereby the historical prospectus was preserved. For details see www.orgelfreunde.gmxhome.de

  • Coupling: II / I (also as sub- and super-octave coupling), I / P, II / P

literature

  • Georg Josef Abröll: On the history of the parishes of Batzenhofen and Hirblingen. In: Johannes Krauße (Hrsg.): Chronicle of the city of Gersthofen. Gersthofen 1989, DNB 891256881 pp 137-138.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin (Batzenhofen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '44 "  N , 10 ° 49' 2.5"  E