St. Peter and Paul (Altenhohenau)

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Altenhohenau monastery church
inner space

The Catholic branch church of St. Peter and Paul was built in the 13th century as the church of the Dominican convent Altenhohenau , today part of the municipality of Griesstätt in the Rosenheim district in Bavaria . In the 17th century the church was rebuilt in the Baroque style and decorated in the 1760s with frescoes by Matthäus Günther and sculptures by Ignaz Günther in the Rococo style. The church consecrated to the apostles Peter and Paul is a protected architectural monument .

history

The first church of the Dominican convent founded by Count Konrad von Wasserburg in 1235 was consecrated in 1239. The walls of the apse and the choir are still preserved from this Romanesque church building. In the years from 1660 to 1680 the church was fundamentally rebuilt, the choir windows were enlarged, the nave vaulted and the nuns' choir provided with a wooden ceiling. In the years 1761 to 1774, the interior received its present-day furnishings .

architecture

The entrance, a simple arched portal, is on the south side of the church. On the west facade is a brick roof turret with an onion dome, which was built in 1773 and which replaced the originally wooden roof turret. You enter the interior through a low vestibule over which the nuns' choir is laid out. The single-nave nave is covered with a flat needle cap barrel and is divided into three bays by pilasters and high arched windows. The retracted choir is closed in a semicircle.

Anna Chapel

The Gothic Anna Chapel, also called Kolumba or Cloister Chapel, is added to the south side of the choir . It was built in the early 14th century and is one of Horn consoles resting Kreuzrippengewölbe covered. The painting with figural scenes and explanations in verse comes from 1769 and was carried out by Joseph Anton Schütz.

Wall and ceiling paintings

Ceiling fresco in the nave
Signature of Johann Michael Hartwagner

The choir fresco was painted by Matthäus Günther around 1762 and is dedicated to the church patrons Peter and Paul, who kneel under the Trinity . The nave fresco by Johann Michael Hartwagner bears the signature: "Johann Michael Hartwagner Bictor Monachii pinx. 1774". In the center of the picture is the veneration of Mary as Queen of the Rosary . Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena are depicted at their feet with other saints of the Dominican order. The personifications of the four continents can be seen in the lower half of the picture . The name monogram JCHWCC (Johann Caspar Hepp real electoral cammer servant) identifies the figure on the left edge of the picture as the donor of the painting.

The large rosettes of the stitch caps, the rocaille cartouches and the frames of the ceiling paintings are painted imitations like the entire stucco decoration .

Furnishing

Mystic cross
  • The high altar was - like the two side altars - created by Ignaz Günther in the 1760s . In the middle of the altar there is a 17th century Madonna and Child in a halo. Kneeling at their feet, painted in silver, are Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena, the patrons of the Dominican Order. The church patrons Peter and Paul stand above the side passages.
  • The north side altar is dedicated to the Roman martyr Claudius. The figure of St. Sebastian is from Ignaz Günther, the figure of St. Florian is a later copy.
  • The altar sheet of the southern side altar with the depiction of St. Dominic was painted by Matthäus Günther. The assistant figures, St. Joseph and St. Anna are works by Ignaz Günther.
  • On the canteen of the south side altar, in a glass shrine, there is the miraculous image of the Altenhohenau Infant Jesus , a small carved figure of the baby Jesus with the cross in his hand from the second half of the 18th century.
  • The pulpit is a work from 1774. On the sound cover is the figure of the Dominican penitential preacher Vincent Ferrer , who is also known as the "angel of judgment", as indicated by his wings. The apostle Paul is depicted on the back wall of the pulpit with his attribute , the sword. The angel on the left in the pulpit holds a fire sword in his hand as a symbol of punishment, the angel on the right holds a palm branch that is said to promise heaven to the righteous as a reward.
  • Under the pulpit, the late Gothic red marble cover plate of the tumba of Kunz von Laiming († 1445) is set into the wall.
  • On the north side, opposite the pulpit, hangs a forked cross or mystic cross from the 14th century. The fork cross is a symbol of the tree of life .
  • The so-called Kolumba Infant Jesus is kept in a glass shrine from the 18th century , a Gothic carved figure from the early 15th century, which is attributed to the master of Seeon . The figure is named after the mystic Kolumba Weigl (1713–1783), who was prioress of the Altenhohenau monastery from 1774 to 1777 and who particularly venerated the baby Jesus.

  • Kolumba Infant Jesus

  • pulpit

  • South side altar

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , pp. 15-16.
  • Alfred Kaiser: Altenhohenau am Inn. Dominican convent church of St. Peter and Paul . Christian Art in Bavaria, No. 1, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1996.

Web links

Commons : St. Peter and Paul (Altenhohenau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Columba Jesulein German Digital Library (accessed January 2, 2018)
  2. ↑ Kolumba Weigl Freundeskreis Klosterkirche Altenhohenau (accessed on January 2, 2018)

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '28.1 "  N , 12 ° 10' 39.3"  E