St. Michael (Mettenheim)

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Parish Church of St. Michael

The parish church of St. Michael is the Catholic parish church of Mettenheim in the district of Mühldorf am Inn . It belongs to the parish of the town church Mühldorf am Inn in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

History and architecture

The stately baroque church was built in 1717–1719 by master mason Dominikus Glasl and Parlier Corbinian Pachmayr instead of a medieval predecessor and consecrated in 1720. The building dominates the large, very old village. The originally free-standing west tower was redesigned in Baroque style in 1729/1730 and incorporated into the structure. Renovations were carried out in 1975 on the inside and in 1992 on the outside. In 2009 the restored angel cycle in the nave of the church was consecrated again.

The hall church has a tower with a double onion dome in the west and a semicircular choir in the east, where two smaller side extensions accommodate the two-storey sacristy in the north and an oratory from 1887. To the north of the tower is the Seven Refuge Chapel, and to the south the All Souls Chapel.

The splendid interior is also baroque in design and has an impressive spatial effect. A barrel vault with stitch caps completes the four-bay nave. The dense stucco decor is attributed to Nikolaus Liechtenfurtner ; the stucco on the choir arch was made by Joseph Pösinger in 1735 and was supplemented by Johann Philipp Wagner in 1773. The ceiling painting is attributed to Joseph Anton Haas and shows in the choir the apparition of the Archangel Michael over the Monte Gargano and in the main picture of the nave the apparition of the mounted Archangel Michael at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 near Prague. The central group of people in this painting shows Elector Maximilian I with the advising Carmelite Father Dominicus and the general Tilly .

Furnishing

The high altar in the choir, two side altars to the right and left of the choir, a pulpit and a two-story organ gallery , all designed in baroque style, form the main pieces of equipment. The high altar from the years 1738–1747 was created by the joiners Tobias Lackner and Philipp Simmel and decorated with the figures of the Annunciation and Saints Joachim and Anna by Johann Georg Kapfer. The setting and the altar sheet are by Johann Baptist Rabensteiner. The simultaneous side altars were probably created by Mühldorf masters.

The pulpit dates from 1747, also by Kapfer. A magnificent cycle of angels on the pillars from the beginning of the 18th century underlines the character of the church as an angel church. A late Gothic figure of Peter is preserved in the choir. Under the pulpit there is a priest's grave from 1517 made of red marble. The organ is a work by Jakob Müller from Rosenheim from 1888 with ten stops on a manual and pedal and was restored by the Eder Orgelbau company .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , p. 689.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Restoration of the Angel Cycle. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Information on the organ in the parish church of St. Michael in Mettenheim. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '57.4 "  N , 12 ° 27' 53.8"  E