St. Oswald (Marktl)

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St. Oswald
Baptistery with baptismal font of Benedict XVI.
The new altar

St. Oswald is the Catholic parish church of Marktl in Upper Bavaria .

history

The first St. Oswald Church in Marktl was a Gothic building, consecrated in 1297. After a city fire, it was rebuilt in 1702 in the Baroque style . Due to the growth of the community, a completely new building in neo-Gothic forms was built in 1854-57 . This church was oriented with the sanctuary to the southwest.

architecture

When it became necessary to enlarge it again in the middle of the 20th century, in 1964 the community built a new, wider nave in a north-westerly direction in place of the old one , the altar wall of which now adjoins the old tower. The choir of the old church became a side chapel. The redesign by Erich Horndasch made the room more colorful and friendlier.

Furnishing

The new altar area was designed in a modern way according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council . The neo-Gothic high altar, rich in figures, with the statue of St. Oswald in the center remained in the old choir.

Baptismal font of Pope Benedict XVI.

St. Oswald is the baptistery of Pope Benedict XVI. The baptismal font, in which Joseph Alois Ratzinger was baptized a few hours after his birth on Holy Saturday , April 16, 1927, was removed from the church in 1964 and placed in the parish garden, "because it no longer corresponded to the style of the newly designed church". Members of the Heimatbund saved it from decay and exhibited it in the Heimatmuseum in 1992. It stood there until April 2006. After Ratzinger was elected Pope, the basin was restored, given a new cover and placed in the historic choir of the church in front of the Oswald Altar. On Easter Sunday, April 16, 2006, he was baptized again for the first time.

The octagonal baptismal font made of Danube limestone is the work of Anselm Sickinger . The corners of the cup are set with eight winged angel heads in neo-Gothic ornamentation.

Web links

Commons : St. Oswald (Marktl)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church of St. Oswald / Baptistery of Pope Benedict XVI. , accessed on 2020-02-04
  2. ^ Georg Ratzinger and Michael Hesemann : My brother, the Pope , Munich 2011, p. 38

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 13 "  N , 12 ° 50 ′ 26.8"  E