St. Martin (Geisenhausen)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Geisenhausen in the Landshut district in Lower Bavaria is a late Gothic hall church from the last quarter of the 15th century. The church is located on a hill above the market square . It is listed as an architectural monument and a protected cultural asset under the Hague Convention .
history
The parish of Geisenhausen has a long history, as the Eiselsdorf branch was first mentioned in documents as early as 827 . In 980 Heinrich, the last count of Geisenhausen, bequeathed almost all of his possessions, including the parish, to the cathedral chapter of Augsburg . This situation lasted until 1605, when the parish was transferred to the collegiate monastery of St. Martin in Landshut . After secularization in Bavaria , Geisenhausen became an independent parish of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in 1803 . In 1977 a parish association was formed with the neighboring parish of Diemannskirchen , and in 2002 Holzhausen was added.
Today's parish church was built from 1477 onwards by the masters of the Landshut construction works, who also built the Martinskirche in Landshut around the same time . A portrait of the now unknown builder can be seen in the vestibule of the main portal . The upper floors of the tower were not completed until after 1547. In 1688 the church was made Baroque and the so-called Altöttinger Chapel was added . In the course of works in 1852 and 1870, the church was regotified . In 1965, during the excavation work for the church heating, the floor plan of a smaller Romanesque predecessor building made of tuff was discovered. The last major interior renovation took place in the summer of 1993.
description
In many respects the church is reminiscent of the Martinskirche in Landshut , which may have served as a model for the construction and was completed at a similar time. Both houses of worship are three-aisled hall churches of the brick Gothic , in which the side aisles are half as wide as the central nave. The choir , which is barely drawn in opposite the central nave, is separated by a barely noticeable choir arch , as in the Landshut church , with a large crucifix in the pointed arch . This was attached to the Geisenhausen church as part of the Baroque renovation in 1688.
On the outside, the church is structured by a circumferential base, buttresses and a roof frieze. The interior is from different eras. A carved figure of St. Martin on horseback with the kneeling beggar from the period between 1520 and 1530, the baptismal font and a face carved in stone (probably that of the unknown master builder of the church) date from the Gothic era. The popular altar was erected in 1967 according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council . The high altar was the 500 th anniversary of the start of construction in 1977 by a neo-Gothic replaced structure that the Gothic St. Martin's character is home to a central location. The Altötting Chapel , which is built on the north side of the church and opens to the left aisle via a pointed arch, is decorated with a figure of Mary by the Austrian sculptor Albin Moroder from 1977. The mighty church tower is studded with copper at the top ; it has a height of 64 m, with a cross 68 m.
organ
The organ of the parish church was built in 1887 by the Maerz organ builder from Munich . The cone chest instrument with mechanical playing and stop action comprises a total of 18 stops on two manuals and pedal . The disposition is in detail:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P, pedal octave coupling
- Playing aids : piano, mezzoforte, fortissimo
In 1980 Hubertus von Kerssenbrock from Grünwald near Munich carried out a conversion with an expansion to 19 registers . Since then the disposition has been as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P
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Bells
The ringing of the parish church consists of the following bells:
1. Martin's bell
- from the holy year 1950: "My name is Martin, I praise God with a loud sound across the hall and valley"
- approx. 2500 kg, Johann Hahn bell foundry , Landshut 1950
2. Mother of God Bell
- "I am called Mari, I am known as the Queen of Heaven, ask us for eternal happiness in this earthly dispute"
- approx. 1750 kg
3. Sebastian Bell
- "St. Sebastian help us so that, like you, we are faithful "
- approx. 1200 kg, donated in 1950
4. Brother Konrad and Mother of God von Altötting
- "Brother Konrad rings the mass that you do not forget the Christian duty"
- approx. 800 kg, donated in 1950
5. Death bell, dedicated to St. Erasmus
- "Karl Dietsch took me, hit metal and poured me around to Engelschlag in 1863"
- approx. 300 kg, Karl Dietsch, 1863
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pfarrverband Geisenhausen: A warm welcome to the catholic. Parish Association Geisenhausen . Online at www.erzbistum-muenchen.de. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
- ↑ Markt Geisenhausen: parish church . Retrieved January 31, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Parish Association Geisenhausen: Parish Church St. Martin ( Memento of the original from October 19, 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. . Online at www.erzbistum-muenchen.de. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
- ↑ a b Bavarian organ database online
- ↑ Orgeldatabase: Geisenhausen, Germany (Bavaria) - Sankt Martin Church . Online at orgbase.nl. Retrieved March 25, 2016.
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 '26.8 " N , 12 ° 15' 32.9" E