St. Michael (Ottmaring)

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St. Michael in Ottmaring

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael is a monument in Ottmaring near Friedberg in Bavaria .

history

A choir tower church was built in the first half of the 13th century near the former castle of Ottmaring. The tower and nave were partially renewed in the late 15th century. The church apparently survived several fires in the course of armed conflicts in 1704 and 1796 unscathed. After the church was largely spared from a town fire in 1841, the tower was damaged in another fire in 1865, which melted the bells . However, the new bell then resulted in the tower being subjected to too much static load. Sensitized by the collapse of the church tower in St. Jakob in Friedberg, the tower was first demolished in 1869. In 1876 the architect Max Treu was commissioned with a completely new building, which was built in neo-Gothic style from 1877 to 1878 and consecrated in 1881 . The long building was founded in 1984 to plans by Hans Gebauer two yokes prolonged and between the rectory created and the nave a modern transitional and a northern extension.

Building description

The church is a hall building with six buttress bays , a flat needle cap barrel and a recessed, polygonal choir . The tower with a gothic dome and tracery friezes is attached to the side. The modern connection to the baroque rectory creates a conscious contrast and makes the historical assemblies visible.

Furnishing

The stained glass windows of the church were made in 1890 by the Mittermairschen Glasmalerei-Anstalt in Lauingen . They depict Saints Gregory, Ambrosius, Luke and Johannes on the left and Saints Jerome, Augustine , Matthew and Mark on the right. These historicist works, derived from medieval sacred architecture, are considered a rarity. The cycle of stained glass windows in the intermediate building is by Silvia Nagacevschi , Helmut Ulrich and Roman Harasymiw and shows the history of salvation from creation to Pentecost . The paintings in the church were carried out between 1907 and 1910 by Otto Hämmerle (long house fresco) and Josef Becker. The rest of the neo-Gothic painting was removed in 1945. In the course of the expansion measures in 1984, this was reconstructed using old photos. The main altar in the choir is consecrated to St. Michael and was created by Carl Port in 1880 in the Baldauf'schen Kunstanstalt in Augsburg . Next to Saint Michael in the central shrine there are figures of Saints Nicholas and Joseph. In the niche of the extract there is a figure of the Sacred Heart . The side altars are about the same age and were made by Anton Schmid, a cabinet maker from Aichach. The left altar is dedicated to Our Lady . Next to her are St. Isidore and Notburga, and above that Franz Xavier . The right side altar is consecrated to Saint Sebastian , next to him Saint Wendolin and Leonhard as well as Nepomuk above. The figures of saints on the nave walls around 1910 are by Martin Bigelmayer and represent the saints Kreszensia, Afra and Anna (left) and the saints Florian , Ulrich and Antonius (right).

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Ottmaring)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ottmaring parish: // Ottmaring parish | History //. Retrieved May 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Stadt Friedberg (Ed.): Stadtbuch Friedberg . tape 2 . Friedberg 1991, ISBN 3-9802818-0-9 .
  3. ^ Architectural monuments Friedberg. (PDF) Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, April 14, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Raab, Hubert: Friedberg experience [with all parts of the city] . Kulturverl. Holzheu, Mering 2010, ISBN 978-3-938330-10-4 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 0.3 "  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 26.4"  E