St. Nikolaus (Neuötting)

Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church from Landshuter Tor

inner space

High altar

pulpit

Altar in the south aisle

St. Nikolaus is the Roman Catholic parish church of Neuötting in Bavaria . The late Gothic hall church was built mainly under the direction of Hans von Burghausen from 1410 to 1492. The building is listed .

Building history

It began with the church, according to the inscription on the sacristy door arch, with the choir in 1410. Furthermore, the 78 meter high tower on the north flank of the choir and the first chapel on the south side were added in the first construction phase from 1410 to 1429 . Due to exhausted financial resources of the citizens, only two chapels could be added on the north side in the second construction phase (1430–1446). The funds for this came from donors. Then work on the church was suspended for 14 years. In terms of time, the third construction phase covers the years 1460 to 1480 and spatially the middle chapels on the south side, including the south portal. After that, work on the church was suspended again for four years. From 1484 to 1492 the construction was completed with the construction of the main nave, the side aisles and the rear chapels. For financial reasons, the naves could no longer be vaulted in the Gothic period. This did not happen until 1622, when the central nave received late Renaissance stucco work, which was knocked off during the regotization. Before that, the church had only wooden flat ceilings in the nave. During the interior restoration from 1974 to 1984, the vault frescos from the Renaissance period (which had been replaced by a starry sky in 1878) were restored in the nave and side chapels. An exterior restoration took place after 1998, during which the Gothic tracery friezes at eaves height were restored.

Exterior

The parish church is a towering brick building with ashlar structures that dominates the entire cityscape. The building is structured with buttresses between the chapel and high windows. The tower is a slim, proportioned building with an octagonal upper floor and a crab-topped pointed helmet. The unadorned exterior design of the nave (especially on the west side) is due to the fact that the town church was finally usable after a protracted building history and the finances were largely exhausted.

View through the north aisle

Interior

The church, which is 49 m long, 22.5 m high and 21 m wide, has a three-bay, slightly wider choir with a narrower long bay, and a six-bay, three-nave nave with integrated narrow, low side chapels. The steep proportions of the rooms are emphasized by the regotisation, but as with other buildings by Hans von Burghausen, it is already laid out in the medieval parts of the room and is effectively underlined by the extremely slim, richly profiled pillars with transom-less dividing arches .

The church has works from every artistic era: from the Renaissance (1600–1622) the design of the chapels and the nave vault instead of the wooden ceiling, from the Baroque the organ front on the west gallery, from the Rococo period the church stalls, the holy water basin and the Sebastiani chapels. Altar, as well as the pulpit, the high altar and the side aisle altars from the period of historicism.

Altars

Side chapels vault

The high altar from 1896 is the artistically most valuable work of regotization and, with the glass paintings from the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt in Munich from the years 1897–1910, fits into the overall effect of the Gothic choir. Three more altars were built in 1882/83. The carved stone-colored apostle statues in the choir were created in 1896 by Karl Georg Huber from Munich.

Side chapels

The eleven side chapels (five on the north side and six on the south side) are characterized by their Renaissance vault frescos (around 1600) exposed during the renovation from 1974 to 1984 and the neo-Gothic furnishings (altars, large, artistically valuable reliefs of the Cross and confessionals). In the chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows (opposite the north portal) there is an expressive Pietà . On the north side, two late Gothic altarpieces of Saints Achatius and Sigismund are to be highlighted in the eastern Holy Cross Chapel .

Stained glass

Pulpit and stalls

The pulpit pillar comes from the Gothic initial furnishing phase; Similar to St. Martin in Landshut and St. Stephan in Braunau , the staircase is incorporated into the pillar core. The door dates from 1563, the basket and the sound cover are neo-Gothic (1854).

The choir stalls are neo-Gothic and date from 1884. The church stalls with little doors are finely carved work in rococo style with heraldic inlays.

Stained glass

The windows in the choir and most of the windows in the side chapels, artistically painted in neo-Gothic style, were created by the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt between 1897 and 1910.

Memorial stones

A finely worked Renaissance epitaph for Bernhard Bogner († 1588) with an early view of the city of Neuötting in the lower scene has been preserved in the choir. On the east wall of the north aisle there is a replica of the memorial stone in Landshut with the portrait of the master builder Hans von Burghausen, which is incorrectly called "Stethaimer" here.

organ

The organ

The organ in the baroque prospect from 1642 was built in 1980 by Gerhard Schmid . It has 49 registers distributed over four manuals and pedal . The disposition is:

I small pedal ( swellable ) Tube bare0 08th' Fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Principal 04 ′ third 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′ Seventh 2 2 ⁄ 7  ′ Forest flute 02 ′ Mixture V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 08th'

II major work Principal 16 ′ Principal 08th' Hollow flute 08th' Gemshorn 08th' octave 04 ′ Coupling flute0 04 ′ Pointed fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 02 ′ Kornet 08th' Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Trumpet 08th'

III breastwork (swellable) Wooden dacked 08th' Reed flute 04 ′ Little Pomeranian0 02 ′ octave 01' Cymbel III 01 ⁄ 2 ′ shelf 16 ′ Krummhorn 08th' Tremulant

IV Swell Drone 16 ′ Tibia 08th' Gamba 08th' Willow pipe0 08th' octave 04 ′ Transverse flute 04 ′ Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ recorder 02 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′ Pleinjeu 02 ′ Basson 16 ′ clarinet 08th' Schalmey 04 ′ Tremulant

pedal Principal 16 ′ Sub-bass 16 ′ Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave bass 08th' Flute bass 08th' Major third 6 2 ⁄ 5  ′ Major seventh0 4 4 ⁄ 7  ′ trombone 16 ′

• Secondary register: Cymbelstern, Schellencymbel
• Pair : I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P, I / II, III / II, IV / II, IV / III
• Playing aids : Tutti, tongues off, shutter release, 6-fold setter combination
• Notes: slide box, mechanical game and electrical stop action, baroque prospectus from 1642

Bells

• St. Nicholas bell (41.5 ct.), Inscription: "vivos voco", (I call the living) and "Glory to God in the highest".
• St. Mary's bell (19 ct.), Inscription: “Mortuos plango” (I mourn the dead) and “Maria, Queen of Peace, pray for us”.
• St. Florian bell (10.5 ct.), Inscription: "Fulgura frango" (I break the lightning) and "Flee you hostile powers".
• St. Joseph's bell (8 ct.), Inscription: "Saint Joseph, patron saint of the church, pray for us".

literature

• The parish church of St. Nikolaus zu Neuötting , Hannes Oefele Verlag (1991)

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Church leaders

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 , pp. 958-960.
2. ↑ Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 28.2 "  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 1.5"  E