St. Michael (Schatzhofen)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Schatzhofen , a district of the municipality of Furth in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is essentially a Romanesque church that was significantly changed in the Baroque period and was given a new Romanesque interior towards the end of the 19th century . It is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-132-9 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
history
The parish of Schatzhofen is one of the so-called original parishes in the Landshut area. It was founded in the 9th century AD by Theodolinde, an aunt of the noble abbot Richpald. This appears more frequently in the history books in the vicinity. The first, probably wooden church building was destroyed by the Hungarian Towers in the middle of the 10th century.
Today's parish church goes back to a Romanesque stone building that was built as a fortified church in the 12th century . The up to two meter thick walls of the semicircular apse and the Romanesque nave , today's choir, bear witness to this . The base of the tower with a Romanesque round arch frieze also dates from this period. The patronage of St. Michael (feast day: September 29) goes back to the Romanesque period, as he was often implored for protection and help.
No structural changes were made in the Gothic style . The church building received its current appearance mainly during the baroque renovation in 1687/88, which was carried out by the Landshut master mason Victor Thoni. This was only followed by minor renovations in the 18th century. In the years 1851/52 the transept was added by master builder Johann Bernlochner from Landshut . From 1875 the formative redesign of the interior in the neo-Romanesque style took place. In addition to new altars and a new pulpit, two colored windows were added in the choir room. In addition, the baroque onion dome was replaced by the current spire at this time . The last major renovation took place from 1999 to 2002.
description
architecture
Since the renovation in the middle of the 19th century, the church has had a cruciform floor plan . In the eastern arm of the cross, consisting of the Romanesque nave and the Romanesque, retracted apse, the choir is now housed. This is united with the western arm of the cross, the three-bay , baroque nave , under a gable roof . The two arms of the transept to the north and south have significantly lower, hipped roofs. The sacristy is built on the north side of the choir . Since the tower rises above the apse, the church can be called a choir tower church . A Romanesque round arched window and a round arched frieze have been preserved on the exterior of the apse as stylistic elements of the original building. The tower rises above a square substructure, which is loosened up by round arched panels, and has an octagonal top that merges into a pointed helmet by means of eight small triangular gables .
The interior is spanned by a flat ceiling that was drawn in in the 19th century. The apse is vaulted in the semi-dome . The transitions between nave and choir as well as between nave and transept arms are arched . An organ gallery with a straight parapet and two staircases has moved into the rear nave yoke .
Furnishing
In the apse is the neo-Romanesque high altar , whose rounded arched structure is supported by two pairs of columns. In the niche created in this way, there is a large figure of the church patron , the Archangel Michael , with a shield and a flaming sword . Side figures are the Evangelist John (left) and the “ Prince of the Apostles ” Peter (right). The altar also contains a large, gilded tabernacle with silver candlestick arms . The two side altars, designed as counterparts, are also neo-Romanesque and each have three figure niches. The north (left) side altar contains a figure of the Mother of God with the baby Jesus in the central niche , to the side the Saints Francis Xavier (left) and Francis of Assisi (right). At the southern (right) side altar there is a Sacred Heart figure in the central niche ; a holy monk can be seen on the left, a holy bishop on the right , but these cannot be identified more precisely.
The neo-Romanesque pulpit with a sound cover is attached to the north-western corner of the crossing . On the octagonal pulpit there are half-reliefs of the four evangelists, on the back wall Jesus is depicted as the Good Shepherd . On the opposite south wall of the nave, the plague cartridges Sebastian (left) and Rochus (right) flank a mission cross on wall brackets . Further figures can be found in the transept arms - St. Anthony of Padua to the north , the brother Konrad von Parzham to the south - a Mater Dolorosa on the north wall of the nave . Framed pictures in Nazarene style in the choir show the Holy Family on the left, Saint Isidore of Madrid and Francis Xavier on the right . A baroque rosary Madonna is also worth mentioning .
The ceiling painting in the nave was created by Fritz Muth in 1935 . In the lower half of the picture it shows peasants who pause and pray while working in the fields in front of Schatzhofen. The reason for the silent prayer is shown in the upper half of the picture: Saint Isidore, shown with the scythe as an attribute , is received by Jesus Christ in heaven and equipped with a golden crown. This painting clearly refers to the parish life in Schatzhofen, as there is one of the few Isidor brotherhoods in Germany that still exists today.
A painting of Saint Cecilia , patroness of church music , framed by two music-making angels , can be seen in the center of the gallery parapet . On both sides of the painting there is the following saying: “ Gloria in excelsis Deo! / Glory to God in the highest / u. Peace to people on earth / who are of good will! ”In addition, there is a group of Anabaptists from around 1780 in the workshop of the famous Landshut sculptor Christian Jorhan the Elder .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Landshuter Zeitung of January 9, 2016: Between grave mound fields and former castles - this year hike around Schatzhofen also led to ancient churches ( memento from October 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Online at www.arlan.de; accessed on June 24, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Schatzhofen - St. Michael . Online at kirchturm.net; Retrieved June 17, 2017.
- ^ A b c Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, pp. 200f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Schatzhofen parish church . Online at online.pfarreifurth.de; Retrieved June 17, 2017.
Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 22.6 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 49 ″ E