St. Martin (Niederstraubing)

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Filial church St. Martin

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Martin in Niederstraubing , a district of the Steinkirchen community in the Upper Bavarian district of Erding , is essentially a late Gothic building that was redesigned in the Rococo style in the middle of the 18th century . The branch church assigned to the parish of St. Nikolaus in Schröding is consecrated to St. Martin of Tours (memorial day: November 11th).

history

The late Gothic previous church was rebuilt in 1613. Another renovation took place in the second half of the 17th century. In the years 1749 to 1754 it was redesigned in the Rococo style.

architecture

The church is a hall building with a retracted choir closed on three sides . In the southern corner of the choir rises the bell tower crowned by a slender pointed helmet , next to it a sacristy . The interior of the choir and nave are covered by barrel vaults with stitch caps . On the chancel arch one's inscription attached, which highlighted capital letters chronogram arise with the year 1749th The western end of the nave is formed by a gallery that rests on two wooden posts and on which the organ is installed.

Ceiling painting

Ceiling painting in the nave

The ceiling paintings in the choir were made by Franz Albert Aiglsdorfer in 1754. The central painting shows Jesus with his wounds, surrounded by a halo. Blood flows from his side wound, which is collected in goblets by two angels. On the two side scenes, Melchizedech is shown on the left , offering a sacrifice of wine and bread and blessing Abraham , and on the right, Abraham, who is ready to sacrifice his son Isaac . Remains of an older ceiling painting are still preserved above the choir altar.

The paintings in the nave were created in the same year by Aiglsdorfer's son Franz Joseph. The large picture shows the Trinity above and below St. Leonhard , St. Martin, the patron saint of the church, and St. Joseph . At the bottom of the picture you can see a view of Niederstraubing with the no longer preserved castle and the surrounding churches. Tone-on-tone painting depicts scenes from the legend of Martin in the stitch caps of the vault .

Gallery pictures

The gallery parapet is divided into fields on which scenes from the legend of St. Martin are depicted.

Furnishing

Altars

Saint Martin
Madonna and Child
  • The altars date from around 1753. The altar sheet of the choir altar by Franz Zellner, flanked by two large figures of bishops, shows St. Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar. The figures of St. Joseph and St. Dominic stand above the side passages .
  • The northern side altar is dedicated to St. Leonhard, on the left is St. Walburga , on the right is St. Notburga with her attribute , the sickle. The sculpture of the Madonna and Child on the Altarmensa is dated to the early 16th century, the small figure of Martin dates from around 1440/50.
  • The southern side altar, which is dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua , is flanked by the figures of St. Wendelin and St. Isidore of Madrid .

Tombstones

Epitaphs decorated with coats of arms are usually embedded in the walls of the nave and choir .

organ

View to the organ gallery
Neo-Rococo prospectus

As a replacement for an instrument that had been installed by Jakob Müller from Rosenheim in the Niederstraubingen Church in 1875 , Franz Borgias Maerz from Munich built in today's organ in 1905 . The pneumatic cone chests instrument behind a Neorokoko - brochure includes five registers on a manual and pedal . The gaming table is attached to the side. In 1974 Ludwig Wastlhuber from Mößling near Mühldorf installed an electric blower. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '30.2 "  N , 12 ° 5' 8.2"  E