St. Michael (Little Munich)

Parish Church of St. Michael

Tower with twin arcades and keel-arched glare fields

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael in Wenigmünchen , a district of the municipality of Egenhofen in the Upper Bavarian district of Fürstenfeldbruck , is essentially a late Gothic church building that was redesigned in the Baroque style in the 17th and early 18th centuries . In 1932/33 the nave was extended by seven meters to the west according to plans by the architect Joseph Elsner junior (1879–1970). The church, which is consecrated to the Archangel Michael , is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

architecture

Exterior construction

In the northern corner of the choir stands the bell tower from around 1500 , which is covered with a steep gable roof. The eastern and western gable sides of the tower are each decorated with five corner attachments . The gable surfaces have glare fields framed by keel arches . The bell storey is broken up by red-rimmed, coupled sound arcades that are cut into rectangular niches with ornamental painting.

inner space

Interior, view of the gallery

Interior, view of the choir

The single nave nave is structured by large, oval windows in the early Baroque style. The retracted choir is closed polygonally.

The original Gothic ribbed vault in the choir was during the early Baroque transformation of the church into a lunette ton converted and framed pieces of egg and dart and leaf friesen decorated. Stucco medallions contain the names of the church patron and pastor Hieronymus Wenig, under whom the stucco decoration was made. The nave originally had a wooden flat ceiling. In 1668, today's barrel vault was pulled in and given a stucco decoration. When the nave was extended, the stuccoing was continued in the same style.

The baroque fresco on the face above the choir arch was executed in 1967 by the Munich church painter Sebastian Hausinger. It depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi .

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  Stucco ceiling in the choir

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  Stucco ceiling in the nave

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  Holy Spirit Hole

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  Stucco decoration and fresco above the choir arch

Furnishing

pulpit

High altar with Archangel Michael, Saint Leonhard and Johannes Nepomuk

• The double-column high altar dates from the Rococo period . In the middle niche stands a figure of the Archangel Michael with soul scales and a flaming sword, a dragon flickers at his feet. Saint Leonhard and Johannes Nepomuk are at his side as assistant figures .
• The pulpit is also a work from the Rococo period.
• The side altars date back to the 17th century. Only the excerpts with the symbolic representations of the Heart of Mary and the Heart of Jesus were added around 1760 in the Rococo style. The figure of Patrona Bavariae on the left side altar is dated around 1620, the late Baroque figure of St. Achatius on the right side altar was possibly created by Johann Luidl in the Landsberg sculpture workshop in the early 18th century .
• The baptismal font dates from around 1730 .

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  Left side altar with the Patrona Bavariae

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  Right side altar with Saint Achatius

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  Baptismal font

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  Altöttinger Madonna

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 1271.
• Volker Liedke, Peter Weinzierl: District Fürstenfeldbruck (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.12 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-574-8 , p. 32 .
• Michael Schmid: Churches in the parish association Aufkirchen-Egenhofen. Pfarrverband Aufkirchen-Egenhofen (ed.), Mammendorf 2003, pp. 35–37.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Egenhofen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-79-117-15

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '24.2 "  N , 11 ° 12' 54.5"  E