St. Nikolaus (Murnau am Staffelsee)
The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is in the Upper Bavarian market town of Murnau am Staffelsee in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district . Together with the parish of Murnau, it belongs to the Benediktbeuern deanery . The parish is assigned to the diocese of Augsburg . The parish church's patronage day is December 6th.
history
After the Gothic predecessor of today's parish church had become dilapidated and too small, the foundation stone for the new church was laid in 1717 by the Ettal abbot Placidus Seitz . The nave was built from 1717 to 1721, followed by the choir in 1725–27 . The substructure of the Gothic tower was increased from 1730 to 1732. The architect is unknown. The church consecration followed on May 6, 1734 by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Sigismund Mayr. In 1736 the building was elevated to a parish church. The church tower was completed in 1750 with a dome and lantern and has been 50 meters high since then. A second tower, which was probably planned, was not built. The late baroque interior was added gradually due to lack of money: The high altar was probably given or donated by the Ettal monastery in 1771 . The ceiling frescoes in the choir and nave were not made until around 1870 and 1893–95.
St. Nicholas has been a pilgrimage church to the Mater dolorosa since 1756 .
The expressionist Wassily Kandinsky depicted the parish church in his oil painting Murnau with Church I in 1910 .
For the 300th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the church was extensively renovated from 2012 to 2017.
Description and equipment
The nave is a 25 meter high domed room with eight arcades , to which the cross-shaped choir is in front. The onion dome stands on the south-eastern outer wall.
The frescoes in the choir were painted by Johann Michael Wittmer and Josef Anton Schwarzmann around 1870, they show the Annunciation , the birth , the transfiguration and the crucifixion of Jesus . The depiction of the Last Judgment in the nave comes from Waldemar Kolmsperger the Elder .
In the high altar, in a Rococo shrine above the tabernacle, there is the miraculous image of Mater dolorosa, a figure of Mary pierced by seven swords. The large high altar picture shows next to St. Nicholas of Myra before Christ scenes from the legends of St. Nicholas . It was painted by Johann Baptist Baader in 1771. To the left and right of the painting there is a white and gold figure: to the left of St. Benno von Meißen and to the right of St. Ulrich von Augsburg .
There are six side altars in the parish room, two of which contain reliquary shrines of St. Vincent and St. Victoria .
The confessionals , the choir stalls and the parapets of the choir oratorios were probably made by Kistler Bartholomäus Zwink from Uffing . The stucco work of the Wessobrunn school is attributed to Johann Baptist Zimmermann . The baptismal font and the Easter candle are in a side chapel .
Bells
After all the bells were melted down in World War II , five new ones were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding in 1949 .
| No. | Surname | Chime | Weight (approx.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Nicholas | H | 2500 |
| 2 | St. Mary | e ′ | |
| 3 | Measuring bell | f sharp ′ | |
| 4th | Christ the King | g sharp ′ | |
| 5 | St. Michael | H' |
organ
St. Nikolaus received an organ in 1749 , built by the organ builder Andreas Jäger from Füssen , which was repaired by Jakob Kölbl from Wielenbach in 1786 . In 1805 a new instrument was built, probably also by Kölbl, with the following disposition :
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This organ gave way in 1892 to a larger new building by Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer from Oettingen , whereby the prospectus from 1805 was retained. The arrangement of the organ with cone chest and mechanical playing and stop action was now:
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In 1970 Guido Nenninger from Munich finally built today's organ with 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The prospectus from 1805 was taken over again. Dieter Schingnitz from Iffeldorf - Staltach modified this instrument with a sliding drawer and mechanical playing and stop action in 1992 : he replaced the dulcian 16 ′ in the main work with a trumpet 8 ′ and the chorale bass II 4 ′ with a mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′. Today's disposition is therefore:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P
literature
- Martin Lohr: Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus (= Little Art Guide , No. 476). 6th, revised edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 978-3-7954-4289-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish St. Nikolaus - Murnau . In: bistum-augsburg.de . Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Late baroque pilgrimage church in the heart of Murnau . In: st-nikolaus-murnau.de . Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ a b List of monuments for Murnau am Staffelsee (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ a b Wilfried Rogasch : St. Nikolaus in Murnau . In: ovb-online.de , December 16, 2014. Accessed November 1, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e Thomas Walser: Walk through St. Nikolaus with your eyes open . A church leader. In: st-nikolaus-murnau.de . Retrieved November 1, 2017 (PDF; 3.86 MB).
- ↑ Heino Herpen: Murnau celebrates its very special church . In: Merkur.de , September 17, 2017. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Michael Bernhard (Ed.): Organ database Bavaria online. Record 18615-18621. 2009. Accessed March 1, 2020.
- ↑ Organ . In: st-nikolaus-murnau.de . Retrieved November 1, 2017.
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 34.8 " N , 11 ° 12 ′ 9.3" E