St. Othmar (Pfettrach)
The Roman Catholic Kuratiekirche St. Othmar in Pfettrach , a district of the market Altdorf in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a late Gothic hall church from around 1490. It is assigned to the parish of the Visitation of Mary in Altdorf, whose branch Pfettrach was once. The church bears the patronage of St. Othmar von St. Gallen (memorial day: November 16) and is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-113-18 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
history
The place name Pfettrach was first mentioned as Phetarah around 800 AD in a handover book of the Mondsee Monastery . The first church already existed before 955 AD. The core of today's building dates back to around 1490 and was built by a master from the Landshut construction works. Around 1710 the church was redesigned in Baroque style under the responsibility of master mason Hans Widtmann from Pfeffenhausen . Most of the furnishings date from this time . In 1805 the church was expanded to include the so-called Count's Chapel. This contains the family crypt of the then lords of Pfettrach, the Counts of Deroy . Towards the end of the 19th century, the western vestibule and the sacristy were added to the apex of the choir .
architecture
Exterior construction
The east-facing hall church has a nave with three axes and a retracted, two-bay choir ending in three octagonal sides. The sacristy and tower are attached to the northern flank of the choir. Later extensions are the Count's Chapel, which was added on the north side of the front nave axis, the sacristy at the apex of the choir and the western vestibule. The latter contains the portal , which is the only access to the interior of the church.
The window openings - there are no windows in the western nave axis and on the north side of the presbytery - are designed with ogival arches in accordance with the time of construction. The choir is structured on the outside by weak triangular struts and a roof frieze, the nave by buttresses with a rectangular profile. The tower, which jumps slightly into the square structure of the sacristy, has a square floor plan . The substructure is enlivened by a pointed arch frieze. Above it rises an octagonal tower with sound openings on all sides and a baroque onion dome .
inner space
The choir inside has a star-shaped figuriertes vault from birnstabförmigen on ribs. These rest on semicircular profile consoles . The chancel is structured by rectangular pillars and pointed arches . The transition to the nave is mediated by a pointed choir arch , beveled on both sides . The structure of the nave is also made using rectangular wall pillars. Formerly pointed arches, which were rounded in the Baroque period, rested on it. Instead of a Gothic vault, there is now a baroque mirrored ceiling. The room in the basement of the tower is spanned by a ribbed vault, the sacristy and the count's chapel by a flat ceiling .
Furnishing
The interior is dominated by the baroque high altar with four winding columns from the early 18th century. It shows figures of the patron saint Othmar (left) and St. Leonhard (right). These flank the altar panel with a representation of the Holy Family . The altar has side passages, the doors of which are decorated with paintings of Saints Florian (left) and Anthony of Padua (right). Figures of Saints Joseph and Zacharias are placed above the passages . The antependium is decorated with acanthus tendrils and shows the mounted St. George . The side altars, each with two winding columns, are designed as counterparts and are made in the early Rococo style and are likely to have been made around 1740.
The choir vault has baroque stucco from the second half of the 17th century. The chair cheeks date from the early Rococo period and feature elaborate carving of leaves and ribbons .
organ
Around 1835 St. Othmar received an organ from Landshut organ builder Joseph Schweinacher , of which only the classicist prospectus has survived. Built in Willibald Siemann a new plant in the 1920s. The cone chest instrument with pneumatic play and register contracture has a free-standing gaming table . It has six registers on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, Super II / I, Sub II / I, II / P, I / P
- Playing aids : Tutti
Remarks:
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Surroundings
The church is surrounded by a cemetery . The cemetery gate dates from the Baroque period and contains a figure of a saint . The soul house , a massive steep-roofed building , was probably built in the 19th century.
About 100 meters southwest of the church was the now defunct Pfettrach Castle , built as a moated castle in the Middle Ages .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Parish Altdorf: St. Othmar, Pfettrach . Online at pfarrei-altdorf.de ; accessed on April 11, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d e Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, pp. 185-187 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 25.9 ″ N , 12 ° 4 ′ 39 ″ E