St. Michael (rooms)
The Catholic parish church of St. Michael is consecrated to the Archangel Michael and is located in the district ofzimmer of the municipality of Tann (Dr.-Eichinger-Straße 5). The original patron of the church was St. Georg , but this is only mentioned once in a document from the Archdiocese of Salzburg from 1318. Between 1541 and 1700 St. Vitus as the patron of the church and, consequently, Zimmer was always called St. Vitus' church . In 1693 the archangel Michael was placed as the central image on the high altar and in the Salzburg documents the archangels Michael and St. Vitus are named together as patrons. In the books of 1645 and 1679, only the Archangel Michael is listed as patron of the church, but the patronage was always held on St. Vitus Day.
history
Zimmer was in the Archdiocese of Salzburg and originally belonged to the Stammham parish . The church in Zimmer received plenty of real estate as a gift from the nobles von Tann and the Counts of Leonberg . This was the prerequisite for Zimmer and Tann to leave the Parish Association of Stammheim and become their own parish. The patronage right lay with the Counts of Leonberg, to them (or later to the electoral Wittelsbacher Kasten zu Burghausen ) annual taxes in the amount of one sheep of grain and the Vogtgelt (2 guilders, 17 kreuzers, 1 heller) had to be paid.
On July 20, 1316, Count Heinrich VII von Leonberg donated his possessions in Zimmer and Tann to the Gangkofen Order of the Teutonic Order founded by his grandfather . The certificate was signed in Gangkofen by the knight Konrad Trenpeck, the Gangkofener provost Konrad and his son Wolfgrim, by Ludwig Rättlskofer and Heinrich Schreiber von Salweit. With this donation, Count Heinrich wanted to support the hospital brothers of St. Mary of the Jerusalem Germans ( fratres hospitalis sanctae Mariae Teutonicum Jerusolimanorum ). This donation was also signed in their own documents by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian ( in perpetuity and in full justice ) and the Bavarian dukes Heinrich , Otto and Heinrich . This was necessary in order to protect the property of the commander against the foreseeable seizure of the Wittelsbachers. Agreements also had to be made with the Archdiocese of Salzburg. The right of presentation was assigned to the Count or the Coming Gangkofen, but the appointment was made by the Archbishop, whereby taxes were also to be paid. 1318 this was with Archbishop Friedrich III. negotiated by Leibnitz and the Salzburg Cathedral Chapter . Zimmer was considered a permanent vicarie and the local vicar (called pastor) had to pay the Commander of Gangkofen a payment of 16 Regensburg pfennigs from the proceeds of the benefices . According to an agreement of 1342, the remaining income had to be shared with the comer, with one third remaining in rooms and two thirds going to the comer.
The parish of Zimmer also took part in the eventful history of Salzburg at the beginning of the 19th century: First it came to the Duchy or Electorate of Salzburg (1803-1805), then to the Austrian Empire (1806-1808), then to the French Empire ( 1809–1810) and ultimately to the Kingdom of Bavaria (from 1810). In 1812 the parish was incorporated into the Diocese of Passau .
The special bond between the parish and the Teutonic order community Gangkofen is also expressed in the annual pilgrimages to Heiligenstadt to the pilgrimage church of St. Salvator, which took place up until the 1970s , the latter church was part of the donation of the Counts of Leonberg when the Teutonic community Gangkofen was founded on August 9th 1279.
Construction
The church is a single-nave late Gothic building with a south-facing tower and a north-facing side chapel from the late 15th century. The choir and the eastern part of the side chapel date from the 14th century. The side chapel could be older than the nave; it was restored in 1897. The choir of the main nave has two bays and a three-eighth end. The ribbed vaults have a cap closure. In the nave there are reticulated vaults that rise on rectangular pillars profiled with round bars with enclosed shield arches .
After the Second World War , the church tower had to be demolished, but was rebuilt true to the original. Its onion protrudes from the tower. The interior of the main nave today has a rococo interior . The north side chapel deserves special attention because of the rare ceiling frescoes in the Nazarene style . In it is also the new baptismal font. However, the late Gothic font from 1500 was smashed. Baroque figures of St. Vitus and St. Florian decorate the high altar of the church. Around 1700 the side altars with shell carving were added. Presumably they come from the Munich court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub . The crucifixion group was carved by Peter Dionysius Schwanthaler .
Next to the church is the vicarage of Zimmer, which used to be the seat of the Teutonic Order of Gangkofen. This rectory is a two-storey solid building with a half- hipped roof from 1725. Next to it there is an elongated stable with a gable roof from 1849/51. Also noteworthy is the enclosure wall with gate pillars, the core of which probably dates from the 18th century.
literature
- Walter Pera: The Teutonic Order Coming Gangkofen and Zimmer. In: Festival committee 700 years of founding of the German Order Commander Gangkofen (Hrsg.): Gangkofen and the German Order Commander 1279-1979. (Pp. 175-179). Self-published, Gangkofen 1979, OCLC 312137797 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 12 ° 55 ′ 18.4 ″ E