St. Peter (Heidenkam)

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Exterior view of the St. Peter branch church in Heidenkam

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Peter in Heidenkam , a district of the municipality of Tiefenbach in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a late Romanesque church building that was built in the 12th or 13th century and is therefore one of the oldest surviving churches in the district. Today St. Peter in Heidenkam is a branch church of the parish St. Georg in Ast , which belongs to the parish association Steinzell in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

The church is located near a former tower hill castle and is designed as a fortified church with walls up to 1.86 meters thick, a semicircular apse in the form of a stilted arch and very small, arched window openings, which may be due to the proximity to the fortifications . Above the choir there is a completely shingled roof turret with a four-sided pyramid roof . Inside, the nave is flat-roofed , the apse vaulted in a hemispherical shape .

The small baroque high altar dates from the second half of the 17th century. The two pillars that support the structure are entwined with clover leaves. Instead of an altar sheet, there is a wooden figure of St. Peter as the first Pope in church history, which was created at the same time as the altar. The altar is also decorated with volutes . To the north of the apse is a tombstone with a coat of arms , dedicated to a Maria Anna Bauerin von Heidenkam und Ast , who died on July 17, 1684.

There is the following legend about the origin of this church :

“A monk cleared the forest to gain arable land. When he came to a large oak , he struck his ax into the tree and wanted to rest a little before cutting it down. But the monk fell asleep, and when he woke up the oak was gone and the ax hovered where he struck it in the tree. The monk recognized the sign of God and built a chapel at this point, today's St. Peter's Church in Heidenkam. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Elfriede Haslauer: The history of the community Tiefenbach . Online at www.tiefenbach-gemeinde.de; accessed on June 27, 2017.
  2. ^ A b c Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, p. 121f. ( Digitized version ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '34.1 "  N , 12 ° 5' 23"  E