St. Michael (Buchendorf)
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The Catholic branch church of St. Michael in Buchendorf , a district of the community of Gauting in the Upper Bavarian district of Starnberg , was built around 1100. The church with the address An der Mariensäule 1 is a protected architectural monument .
history
The oldest part of the church is the field stone west wall , which is dated around 800. The Romanesque hall church made of tuff was built around 1100 on the site of a previous building, and around 1485 the Gothic choir and tower were added.
The interior of the church was later redesigned in Baroque style and regothicized again in the 19th century.
description
The flat-roofed nave with the attached choir is covered by a ribbed vault. The sacristy is located in the basement of the tower.
The wall paintings from 1595 were exposed again in 1964. They represent the Passion of Christ, St. George , the Last Judgment , the transfiguration and adoration of Christ.
The baroque high altar with a rococo figure of the Archangel Michael was created by Johann Baptist Straub . Next to it are the figures of John the Baptist and St. Helena . The pulpit from the 17th century is the work of Hans Probst .
In a niche on the north wall there is the figure of Anna herself from the beginning of the 16th century.
literature
- Gerhard Schober: District of Starnberg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.21 ). 2nd Edition. Munich / Zurich 1991, p. 148-150 .
- Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Georg Dehio (founder): Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 148.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 25.3 " N , 11 ° 24 ′ 9.8" E