St. Peter (Ergolding)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Peter (also: Peterskirche ) in Ergolding , a market in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a late-Gothic complex with predominantly neo-Gothic furnishings and assigned to the diocese of Regensburg . The church is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-126-4 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . St. Peter is the largest church in the parish of the Visitation in Ergolding, which is why the main services take place here. The largest cemetery in the market town of Ergolding extends around the church .
history
As early as the 9th century, a manorial rule of the Bishop of Regensburg is proven in Ergolding . A chapel was donated to the former royal estate in 914 under the rule of King Konrad I, which was possibly later converted into the predecessor building of St. Peter's Church. In the 11th century Ergolding was divided into two different dioceses by drawing a border. This is how the two parish churches were created, the Peterskirche for the diocese of Regensburg and the Frauenkirche (Mariä Visitation) for the diocese of Freising . When the diocese border was moved to the Isar in 1157 , the Peterskirche was raised to the sole parish church. This condition lasted at least until at least 1665. The parish rights were probably only transferred to the Frauenkirche in the course of the Baroque style in the 18th century.
Today's late Gothic church building is considered to be the most important single-nave construction of the Landshut building works . It dates from the end of the 15th century, with the church tower being taken over from the previous building. The exact year of construction is not known. The master builder is Hans Lauffer, who is said to have participated in the construction of the Landshut Martinskirche . In 1630, building repairs were carried out by master bricklayer Georg Reinhard from Mainburg . The originally Gothic interior was changed to Baroque style around 1730. In addition, the builder Johann Georg Hirschstötter put a Welsche dome on the tower in 1729 . Further renovation measures were carried out by the master mason Josef Dirlinger from Rottenburg in 1784 and by the court mason Joseph Hacker from Landshut in 1800. In the 19th century, the church received its current neo-Gothic furnishings and the tower its neo-Gothic pyramid roof .
During a renovation in the 1950s, the side altars and the cross-way panels were removed as the neo-Gothic furnishings were not considered worthy of protection . During the next renovation in 1985/86, the Way of the Cross, which had been saved from destruction, was hung up again and the high altar was given its original coloring. In the middle of the chancel a new people's altar by the Landshut sculptor Karl Reidel was set up. In addition, a vestibule in front of the church portal on the west side and a sacristy with a separate room for the altar boys were added on the north side. The previously existing chapel with Lourdes grotto on the north side of the church and the southern attached sacristy had been demolished immediately beforehand. In 2017/18, an urgently necessary structural and structural renovation of St. Peter's Church was carried out. A restoration and partial redesign of the equipment also took place.
description
architecture
The completely plastered late Gothic hall church with a choir that has not been separated comprises four bays and closes on seven sides of the dodecagon. The exterior is structured by a total of fifteen buttresses , each separated twice , with the middle section being placed over a corner. The choir is also divided by a coffin cornice. In addition, a late Gothic roof frieze runs around the building , which is typical of the Landshut construction works. The pointed arch windows have late Gothic tracery made of sandstone , which is designed with two lanes in the end of the choir and three lanes in the rest of the nave.
The tower, built on the south side at the rear end of the nave and protruding slightly into it, has a square substructure with five storeys of different heights , which is structured by pointed arches and suggested cornices. The octagonal top with pointed helmet is neo-Gothic.
inner space
Access to the interior of the church is through a portal with a segmented lintel on the west side, which was provided with a vestibule during the renovation in the 1980s. The bronze door knob is designed as a stylized Peter key, which refers to the patronage of the church. The former south portal, which was to be found in the western yoke of the nave, was walled up. The north portal opposite is still usable. The inside dimensions of the Peterskirche are 31.00 meters in length and 11.70 meters in width. The church interior, flooded with light due to the generous tracery windows, is spanned by a continuous net vault without keystones . The pear-shaped ribs arise from rectangular , chamfered pilasters , which have semicircular services with neo-Gothic capitals . With the exception of the second yoke from the west, the pointed arches do not contain any window openings. In the western yoke an organ gallery has been inserted, which rests on two rectangular, bevelled wooden supports. This is done in the neo-Gothic style. The also wooden railing with pointed arch panels and quatrefoil decorated motifs.
Furnishing
Essential components of the church furnishings - the high altar , the now removed side altars and the pulpit - are designed in the neo-Gothic style and were made in 1887 by the atelier for church art W. Stoiber from Landau an der Isar .
High altar
The centerpiece of the church is the three-tier high altar with its numerous figures of saints , which are made of lime wood in proper style. In the center above the tabernacle , flanked by numerous smaller figures, the handing over of the keys to Peter , the church patron, is shown. To the side of this scene there are almost life-size figures of St. Paul (left) and the diocese saint Wolfgang (right). On the top step is a figure of God the Father with a scepter and globe as insignia , centrally and slightly raised . This is flanked by around 90 centimeter high figures of Saints Leonhard , Franz Xaver , Margarethe and Katharina . The last two figures mentioned come from the time the church was built and were part of the original furnishings.
pulpit
The neo-Gothic pulpit has a polygonal pulpit that is decorated with five half-reliefs : On the front - facing the community - the Savior holds an open book with the two Greek letters Alpha and Omega . This representation is flanked by the four evangelists with their attributes . The Good Shepherd stands on the also polygonal sound cover .
Frescoes
The church also has several frescoes from the 16th century , some of which have been well restored . The triangular wall fresco in the first north bay between the choir and nave shows, from bottom to top, a group of twenty founders , scenes from the life of John the Baptist , the resurrection of Jesus Christ and God the Father and the Holy Spirit . On the west wall south of the main entrance there are two frescoes with depictions of the Three Kings and the Flight into Egypt , which, according to the inscription, were made in 1576. This year of origin probably also applies to the first-mentioned fresco. During the renovation of the church in 1985/86, a fresco of St. Christopher with the baby Jesus was uncovered on the stairway to the gallery.
Other equipment
In the northern pillar between the choir and nave there is a Gothic tabernacle . Approximately opposite, a Gothic crucifix with a larger than life body adorns the first yoke on the south side. The carved figures “Maria with the child” (around 1460) and “Christ gives the blessing” (around 1500) are also from the original Gothic interior. The former figure of the Madonna on a bronze base was set in a rosary with semi-precious stones by Karl Reidel . The modern stone altar (→ Peter the rock on which Christ builds his church) and the ambo made of cast bronze also come from the Landshut sculptor .
Below the first-mentioned fresco there is a baroque group of figures of the Holy Trinity . The arrangement of the figures reflects the trinity symbol, an equilateral triangle : below God the Father and Jesus Christ floating on clouds, above the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. Next to the north portal is another baroque figure from the 18th century, which depicts the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian . Baroque cheeks with acanthus carvings from around 1700 have also been preserved.
organ
The organ of the Peterskirche was built around 1972 by Reinhard Weise from Plattling . The organ pipes are controlled via mechanical slider chests . The organ has twelve registers on two manuals and a pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Parish Ergolding: Church leader Ergolding . Online at pfarrei-ergolding-oberglaim.de ; accessed on October 27, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Joseph Gillmeier: Ergoldinger Kirchen - Ein Führer. Pp. 6-21.
- ↑ a b c d Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, pp. 80-83 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Landshuter Zeitung of July 6, 2018: St. Peter shines in new splendor, p. 24.
- ↑ Bavarian organ database online
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 25.9 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 36.4 ″ E