St. Peter and Paul (Ampertshausen)

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Church of St. Peter and Paul in Ampertshausen

The Filialkirche St. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic village church of Ampertshausen , a district of the Schweitenkirchen community in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm .

The church was first mentioned in 1315. A cemetery has also been documented since the 16th century. The building was given its current neo-baroque appearance in 1884. Originally the church was consecrated to St. Vitus . When the latter increasingly lost its importance as the patron saint of cattle herds among the peasant population, the patronage passed to the two apostles Simon Peter and Paul .

The church building was threatened with demolition several times in the course of its history, as at the time of the secularization : "Because of the branch churches in Nörting, Aufham, Ampertshausen and Hirschbach, which only have divine services twice a year, namely patronage and church consecration, one needs a more detailed report, whether they would not be suitable for demolition at best and whether their property could be combined with that of the mother church in Kirchdorf. ”In the 18th century, a ban on holding church services was mentioned due to the dilapidation. Initiated repairs did not secure the church's existence for long. In 1805 the responsible regional court in Moosburg ordered its demolition. However, this plan was not implemented.

Instead, a building plan from 1859 provided for the nave to be extended. However, its realization failed due to the lack of financial resources. In 1877 the church was again designated for demolition by the responsible district office. It was not until 1884 that construction work to save the church was initiated. The nave was lengthened, the building was given a neo-baroque facade and the associated church tower was raised. In 1885 the building received two new altars, which were made by the Munich cabinet maker Joseph Schmid .

The church is assigned to the parish church St. Joseph in Güntersdorf and belongs to the parish association Schweitenkirchen. It is on the list of architectural monuments of the municipality of Schweitenkirchen. St. Peter and Paul is one of 1240 branch and side churches in the area of ​​the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

literature

  • Jolanda Drexler-Herold, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.19 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87490-570-5 , p. 288 .

Web links

Commons : Saints Peter and Paul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Churches and chapels. Schweitenkirchen community, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
  2. ^ Chronicle of Nörting. (pdf) Retrieved November 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Schweitenkirchen - architectural monuments. (pdf) Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, accessed on November 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Churches and chapels. (No longer available online.) Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, archived from the original on November 18, 2015 ; accessed on November 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erzbistum-muenchen.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '8.9 "  N , 11 ° 37' 38.3"  E