St. Pölten (Weilheim in Upper Bavaria)

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St. Hippolytus (old church) from the east

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Hippolyt - usually called St. Pölten - is located in the district town of Weilheim in Upper Bavaria . The listed church belongs to the dean's office Weilheim-Schongau in the diocese of Augsburg . The address is Unterer Graben 48 .

history

prehistory

The origins of the Church of St. Hippolytus go back to the early 8th century, as demonstrated by the discovery of Merovingian graves during the church renovation in 1996. The choice of St. Hippolytus as the church patron is probably related to the fact that in the second half of the 8th century relics of the saint were transferred from Rome via Saint-Denis and Tegernsee to St. Pölten in Lower Austria . On the way there, St. Hippolytus is also known in the Pfaffenwinkel .

Old church

Interior of the old church

Parts of the choir , nave and tower of the old church are Romanesque . The former St. Anna chapel and the sacristy as well as the eastern part of the chancel are late Gothic .

In 1587 the church tower was repaired and probably also increased. Until 1782, the walls were richly painted and the flat paneled wooden ceiling in the nave showed in its fields a. a. about 100 coats of arms. Elias Greuter the Elder is believed to be the creator of these paintings .

In 1782 the church was redesigned in Baroque style under the direction of Wessobrunner Franz Joseph Baader . The St. Anna chapel was closed in the sacristy and the entrance from the nave was bricked up. The entrance was moved away from the west side and a new entrance with a sign was created on the north and south sides . The wooden ceiling was replaced by a barrel vault .

In 1793 the Gothic pointed spire of the tower was replaced with an onion roof . In 1844 the tower was raised, the Romanesque sound openings closed and neo-Gothic built above . The onion dome was removed again and replaced by a pyramid roof over four gables, which was rebuilt in 1968 to its present appearance.

From 1995 to 1998 the church was drained and renovated. In 2007 the high altar was restored .

New Church

A large increase in Weilheim's population after the Second World War made it necessary to expand the church. For cost reasons, it was decided to build a new building on the existing property, which was connected directly to the old church for reasons of space. In doing so, attention had to be paid to the specifications of the monument protection , which wanted an unchanged view from the east, and to urban planning ideas, since the site can be viewed freely from the west and south and the assembly should be carefully coordinated. On September 29, 1968 the building by the architect Hans Strobel was inaugurated.

Description and equipment

Old church

The old church is an elongated hall church with a polygonal choir closure . On the south side is the sacristy with a former chapel, to the north is the pointed helm tower.

Anna herself the third

In the old church there is a figure of Anna Selbdritt from the first quarter of the 13th century, a votive picture by Elias Greuter the Elder from 1614 and a figure of St. Franziskus' by Franz Xaver Schmädl around 1760.

The pulpit is white and golden focus and depicting a Holy Spirit dove , the Ten Commandments and the theological virtues graced.

Tassilo Zöpf created the high altar in the 18th century from red stucco marble .

The frescoes , painted by Johann Sebastian Troger in 1782, show scenes from the life of the church patron:

  • Baptism of St. Hippolytus

  • Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus

  • Entombment of St. Hippolytus

  • Glory of St. Hippolytus

organ

The Augsburg organ builder Heinrich Koulen built a new organ with 13 registers on two manuals and a pedal in St. Pölten after 1900 . The instrument was restored in 1998 by Jean Paul Edouard from Huglfing and has the following disposition :

I main work
Principal 8th'
Harmony flute 8th'
Salizional 8th'
octave 4 ′
mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
II swell
Dumped 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Viol 8th'
Vox celestis 8th'
Transverse flute 4 ′
pedal
Sub-bass 16 ′
Silent 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P, super octave II / I, sub octave II / I
  • Playing aids : step sills

New Church

Madonna by Christoph Angermair in a side niche

The demands for 400 new seats and the unchanged continued existence of the old church were met by extending the church axis to the west. For reasons of proportion , an extension in the shape of the cross-section of the old church was not possible. The architect Hans Strobel chose a circular basic shape with a diameter of 25 meters as an architectural contrast to the old building , but the height of the eaves and ridge was adopted to also take up elements of the old church. He also placed porches from the old gable width to the north, south and west, whereby the new round church space forms a kind of crossing . In the porches, the chancel is shaped like an apse in the west , while vestibules , galleries , stairs and chimneys are housed in the north and south . In addition, the sacristy was built in the form of a quarter arc between the southern and western porches .

The rotunda has a conical roof , the 24 concrete pillars cm with 20 wide and 9 m in height is worn. Between the pillars, above a horizontal reinforced concrete belt, there are window groups, which are composed of square steel tubes and real antique glass in various shades of gray. The out fanned reinforced concrete construction is untreated visible. For the first time in Bavaria , expanded clay was used instead of gravel as a building material for reinforced concrete .

The ceiling consists of knot-free Douglas fir boards conically arranged in rings .

The chancel is emphasized both internally and externally by a wheel window . The Munich sculptor Koller created the altar, ambo , priest's chair , chandelier and holy water kettle . The donated cross on the east side was made by the art and church painter Peltzer from Söcking .

The organs were made by Guido Nenninger from Munich.

A Madonna and Child, carved by Christof Angermair in 1622, was taken over from the old church .

Bells

Until 1793, the church of St. Pölten had three bells: two completely undecorated and one cast in Munich in 1725, which bore representations of the Pollinger cross and Saints Anna and Agatha . Their inscription read: "At the holy sign of the cross you give way to hostile forces". In August 1793, the spire and bells were destroyed by lightning.

In the following year, the parish procured an unadorned bell itself as a replacement, another 300 kg heavy was given to it by the Pollingen provost Franz Töpsl, whose canon monastery the parish was incorporated at the time . The latter bell was cast in 1586 and bore the inscription “DER ERWIRDIGE IN GOTT IACOBVS SCHWARZ PROBST ZV BOLINGEN LVS ME GIESSEN IM IAR M D LXXXVI”. It was not until 35 years later, in 1829, that St. Pölten received a third bell with the inscription “ME · GOSS · WOLFGANG · HVBINGER · IN · MUNICH · ANNO · 1829. / PRIOR WAS JOHANN ROTHMÜLLER”.

When one of the bells broke in 1876, it was decided to commission Erasmus Kennerknecht, a bell-founder from Weilheim, to ring a four-part bell . The metal of the old bells was reused in the new casting. The new bells was posted on May 29, 1877 consecrated , it did until 1917 his service. Then the three smallest bells had to be handed in and were melted down. A little later, the city of Weilheim gave the parish of St. Pölten the “control bell” from the town hall tower as a replacement.

Bells from 1877 to 1917
No. Surname Chime Weight
(approx. In kg) 		Ornament and inscription
1 St. Hippolytus f 1 693 Crucifix, St. Mary , St. Hippolytus
TO COAST / THESE BELLS / GAVE LARGER / CONTRIBUTIONS / C. & K. DIALER AG. HOECK / K. ZIMMERMANN, / A. SCHOETTL
2 St. Mary a 1 356 Holy Mary, another Holy
Ave Maria, mater gratiae, ora pro nobis.
Cast by Erasmus Kennerknecht in Weilheim. 1877
3 Holy Mother Anna c 2 201 St. Joseph , Child Jesus
CAST BY ERASMUS KENNERKNECHT IN WEILHEIM 1877
4th St. Agatha f 2 99 St. Johannes Nepomuk
CASTED VE KENNERKNECHT IN WEILHEIM 1877

After the First World War, Hans Kennerknecht (son of Erasmus) from Weilheim cast three new bells in 1923 to supplement the remaining large ones. In 1942 the three largest were drafted again .

Bells from 1923 to 1942
No. Surname Chime Weight
(approx. In kg) 		Ornament and inscription
1 St. Hippolytus f 1 693 Crucifix, St. Mary , St. Hippolytus
TO COAST / THESE BELLS / GAVE LARGER / CONTRIBUTIONS / C. & K. DIALER AG. HOECK / K. ZIMMERMANN, / A. SCHOETTL
2 St. Joseph a 1 350 St. Joseph
3 St. George c 2 225 St. George
4th St. Michael f 2 150 St. Michael

After the Second World War , it took until 1953 for St. Pölten to receive new bells. Originally they were commissioned by the Bochumer Verein , but then they decided on the Johann Hahn bell foundry in Landshut . The remaining bell from 1923 was cast in the process. The bells were consecrated on September 13, 1953 by Dean Philipp Rau von Polling .

Bells since 1953
No. Surname Chime Weight
(approx. In kg) 		Ornament and inscription
1 St. Hippolytus f 1 700 St. Hippolytus
HL. HIPPOLYTUS, IN THE DISPUTE OF THIS EARTH, YOU ARE OUR GUARDIAN ANGEL!
FOR THE SHEPHERD AND THE Flock, ALWAYS PLEASE AT GOD'S THRONE!
2 Sacred Heart of Jesus a 1 350 Sacred Heart of Jesus
IN OUR SOUL NEEDS BE YOU, IMMACULATE HEART MARIA , OUR HELP!
3 Holy Mother Anna c 2 220 Holy Mother Anna
MUTTER ANNA, STAND BY US IN EVERY BODY AND BLESS THE FIELDS FOR OUR DAILY BREAD!
PROVIDED BY THE KRIESMAIR FAMILY, SCHÜTZENSTRASSE
4th St. Joseph d 2 150 St. Joseph
HL. JOSEF, HELP US IN OUR DYING HOUR!

literature

  • Reinhard Helm: plans and models of Weilheim churches. Ed .: City of Weilheim i.OB. Self-published, Weilheim in Oberbayern 1991, DNB 942882490 .
  • Parish Sankt Pölten (Ed.): The old and new parish church of St. Hippolyt - Pölten. Festschrift for the inauguration of the church on September 29, 1968. Self-published, Weilheim in Oberbayern 1968, DNB 750813024 .
  • Willi Mauthe, Reinhard Schmid: Catholic parish church of St. Pölten (= Little Art Guide , Volume 1391). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 978-3-7954-5101-1 .

Web links

Commons : St. Pölten (St. Hippolyt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c List of monuments for Weilheim in Upper Bavaria (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. P. 16, accessed on September 1, 2018 (PDF; 1.34 MB).
  2. ^ City history Middle Ages. In: weilheim.de. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Construction history of Weilheim. In: baukulturfreunde.de. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  4. ^ Parish of St. Pölten. In: pfarrei-weilheim.de. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c The venerable St. Hippolyt Church. In: pfarrei-weilheim.de. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b The new extension of the parish church St. Pölten 1968. In: pfarrei-weilheim.de. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Michael Bernhard (Ed.): Organ database Bavaria online. Records 30367 and 30368. 2009. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b c Joachim Heberlein: City parish church St. Hippolyt - St. Pölten. In: weilheimerglocken.de. November 26, 2016, accessed September 1, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 14.6 "  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 21.2"  E