St. Mauritius (Münchham)

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Parish Church Münchham

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Mauritius ( also: St. Laurentius according to the Dehio manual ) is a late Gothic hall church in the Münchham district of Ering in the Rottal-Inn district in Lower Bavaria . It belongs to the Ering Parish Association in the Simbach dean's office in the Passau diocese .

History and architecture

The parish was incorporated into Asbach Monastery in 1383 . After its dissolution during secularization , Münchham has been an independent parish since 1806. The late Gothic church was built in the last decade of the 15th century, using an older tower substructure. A year 1491 mentioned in the monument inventory on the east side of the tower can no longer be recognized. On the west side of the choir arch is the year 1496, which was repainted during a restoration.

The building was attributed to the Burghausen foreman Hans Wechselberger, but this attribution is relativized with regard to the ancient room proportions, the lack of standardization of the nave and choir and the vault designation. Inside, a certain coarsening of the detail forms is noticeable. Individual motifs of the exterior such as the buttress formation, the south portal and the vestibule speak in favor of the attribution to Wechselberger, but the late date of origin and the general distribution of these forms point to the design by a Braunau master.

Exterior

The church is a medium-sized, single-nave tufa block building with a retracted choir and a tower in front of it to the west. The building is structured by offset buttresses around which the base cornice is cranked. The center pieces of the buttresses are placed across a corner; the buttresses on the nave carry bud-like attachments. Except for the one on the south side of the nave, most of the windows have been changed in a neo-Gothic style. The squat tower shows an unusual transition from the older square substructure to the compact octagonal tower with hip gables and short, mediating corner struts. A pointed helmet forms the end.

To the south of the western yoke of the nave is a vaulted portal porch. A stonemason's mark is affixed above the arcade , which has been compared to that of Hans Wechselberger, but shows a different structure. The sign on the west side of the choir arch is similar. The cladding of the inner portal is profiled and provided with flanking half columns and consoles, which were probably originally intended for sculptures. Today you can find retouched painted figures there.

Interior

The three-bay nave shows flat arches with bevels, which are provided with sturdy three-quarter round services and profiled polygonal capitals. The retracted, two-bay choir is slightly higher than the nave and ends in a three-eighths closure . Wall brackets in the choir catch the vault ribs. The ribs of the vault are designed differently from those of the ship. In the choir, continuous diamonds are connected to the ribs of the needle cap via short intermediate ribs. In the nave, the transversely directed apex diamonds are connected via short spacers and thus create a different, stretched vault figure.

The furnishings include a high altar from around 1725/1730 and two side altars from the mid-18th century. The pulpit belongs to the Mannerism of the early 17th century. A group of figures Anna selbdritt and frescoes are also preserved. The entrance door shows late Gothic iron fittings. The organ is a work by Willibald Siemann from 1925 with eight registers on two manuals and a pedal .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Mauritius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the Münchham parish on Regiowiki.pnp. Retrieved May 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Information about the organ on the organ database Bavaria online. Accessed August 30, 2020 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 13 ° 7 ′ 35 ″  E