St. Martin (Horgau)

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Parish Church of St. Martin in Horgau

The Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Horgau , a parish in the Augsburg district in the Bavarian administrative district of Swabia , was built in the middle of the 17th century in the Baroque style and painted in the rococo style in the second half of the 18th century . The choir from the second half of the 15th century has been preserved from the previous Gothic church .

history

tower

The place Horgau was first mentioned in writing in the 12th century. The patronage of St. Martin , which was very common in Franconian times, suggests that the parish was founded early . The right of patronage initially lay with the bishops of Augsburg , who later left it to the local lords . In 1504 the manor came to the Augsburg patrician family Rehlingen through marriage .

No documents have survived from the early buildings of the church. The current nave was probably built around 1650/60 and raised around 1680/1700. The stucco decor comes from different building phases in the 18th century and was partially reconstructed in the 20th century. The frescoed ceilings were made around 1760/70 and are attributed to Joseph Christ (1731 / 32–1788). Probably around 1765 a sacristy was added to the south , which serves as the substructure of an oratory .

Crest cartridges

architecture

Exterior construction

In the northern corner of the choir rises the 46 meter high tower with a square substructure and an octagonal structure. The corners are reinforced with pilaster strips and the windows are framed by plaster frames with triangular gables . The top floor of the substructure is broken up by twin arcades with segment-arched gables. The tower is crowned by a double onion dome .

The walls of the nave are divided into large arched windows and stepped buttresses , the gallery yoke is pierced by three oval openings, one above the other. The inputs are under the sign on the north and west side. The northern sign dates from the 17th century, the western from 1929.

Organ loft

inner space

The single-nave nave is divided into four bays and is covered by a flat basket arch barrel with stitch caps over the windows. A round choir arch opens the nave to the drawn-in, three-sided closed choir. The western end of the nave is formed by a two-storey organ gallery resting on four columns . The middle section of the lower gallery parapet is bulging.

Saint Martin shares his cloak with a beggar

Piece

A rich stucco decoration of angel heads, foliage and ribbon work, rocailles , flowers and garlands adorns the ceilings of the choir and nave. The motifs in the first eastern yoke such as helmet, cloak, sword and miter refer to the patron saint of the church, St. Martin. The representations of the instruments of suffering in the second and third yoke are reminiscent of the passion of Christ. Bishop's staff, bible, skull, shepherd's staff and shovel in the fourth yoke are the attributes of St. Wendelin , who has been venerated as the second patron of the church since 1764. The stucco on the gallery parapets was reconstructed again in 1939.

The two large coat of arms cartridges on the choir arch, with a clock in the middle, were originally created by Johann Michael Dreyer and reconstructed in 1912. They commemorate the marriage of Markus von Rehlingen-Hainhofen and Maria von Rehlingen-Horgau in 1692 and contain the alliance coat of arms of the two families. Under the clock, the inscription Each hurt, the last kills reminds of the hour of death.

Ceiling pictures

The ceiling paintings are based on the legends of St. Martins and St. Dedicated to Wendelins. The choir fresco shows St. Martin sharing his coat with a beggar. The Horgau branch churches with their patron saints are depicted in the spandex cartouches : St. Nikolaus in Auerbach , St. Vitus in Streitheim , Maria Magdalena in Horgauergreut and the Franz Xaver Chapel in Bieselbach .

  • Saint Nicholas and the Horgau branch church St. Nikolaus in Auerbach

  • St. Vitus and the Horgau branch church St. Vitus in Streitheim

  • Holy Maria Magdalena and the Horgauer Filialkirche St. Maria Magdalena in Horgauergreut

  • Saint Franz Xaver and the Franz Xaver chapel in Bieselbach

The frescoes in the nave depict the healing of a sick person by St. Martin, the saint's mass and his death. Above the gallery, St. Martin's ascent into heaven is depicted. The scenes on the stitch caps tell the story of the holy Wendelin. They show him as a king's son, as a pilgrim, as a shepherd and as a hermit in the desert who is taken to heaven after his death.

Christ at rest

Furnishing

  • In the choir there is a sculpture of a Pietà . It is considered a work by the Ulm School from around 1510/20.
  • The sculpture Christ in Rest , also in the choir, is dated around 1600. The Resurrection Christ comes from the same time .
  • The crucifix opposite the pulpit is dated to the 16th or 17th century. Our Lady of Sorrows standing under the cross was probably created in the second half of the 18th century.
  • The figures of the apostles depicted with their instruments of torture are dated to the year 1726.
  • The sculptures of St. Joseph and Maria Immaculata in the two niches opposite in the nave are dated around 1730 and attributed to Father Anselm Libigo. They probably come from the former Fultenbach monastery .
  • The backs of the former choir stalls from 1730/35 are still preserved.
  • The three marbled wood altars were consecrated in 1735. The two side figures of the high altar date from 1730/35 and represent St. Martin with his attribute, the goose, and the diocese patron, St. Ulrich with a book and fish. The old altarpiece from 1650/60 or 1680, today mostly covered by a curtain, depicts Mary as Queen of Heaven. The lower edge of the picture shows the battle of Zusmarshausen in 1648 and the burning Horgau. On the left altar is the figure of St. Florian from the late 18th century. The figural group of the Instruction of Mary by St. Anne on the right altar was created in 1740.
  • The lecture cross and the figures of St. Wendelin and St. Sebastian under the gallery are works from the first half of the 18th century.
  • The rococo pulpit dates from the second half of the 18th century. The sound cover is crowned by a sculpture of St. John Nepomuk .
  • There are epitaphs on the inside and outside walls of the church . The resurrection of Christ is depicted on the sandstone epitaph for the equestrian captain Quirin Dietenheimer († 1537).

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '38.9 "  N , 10 ° 41' 5.9"  E