St. Peter and Paul (Hollenbach)

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St. Peter and Paul

The Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is a monument in Hollenbach in the Aichach-Friedberg district .

history

The church of St. Peter and Paul was mentioned for the first time on April 9, 1259, when Duke Ludwig II bequeathed the church to the Cistercian monastery in Säldental. But there was already a previous Romanesque building , from which the font has been preserved. The right of patronage was transferred to Fürstenfeld in 1266 . At that time, Hollenbach was one of the largest parishes in the Aichach district court until secularization .

The church was probably heavily rebuilt and Gothicized in the 15th century . It burned down in the Thirty Years War and was then rebuilt. In 1724 the nave was rebuilt, with the choir and church tower being preserved. The interior was redesigned in Baroque style around 1764/65 . In 1788 the pointed spire of the tower was replaced by an octagon with an onion dome.

Except for the tower, the church was demolished between 1876 and 1878 and replaced by a new building, which was consecrated on June 26, 1881 by the Augsburg Bishop Pankratius von Dinkel . The ceiling frescoes created by Basilio Coletti in 1902 were replaced in 1930 and 1933 by paintings by Eulogius Böhler from Würzburg. In the nave they show the victory of Emperor Constantine against Maxentius and in the choir the repatriation of St. Cross to Jerusalem . The painting in the choir was donated by Pastor Johann Baptist Maiershofer, which is why he was immortalized in the painting. The Annunciation is shown in the choir arch .

Building description

St. Peter and Paul is a neo-Romanesque , flat-roofed hall building with a drawn-in, three-sided closed choir and a northern onion dome. The church has a morgue and a war memorial.

Furnishing

The neo-Romanesque altar furnishings around 1880/85 are by Franz Stief from Kissing . The late Gothic miracle cross is part of the crucifixion group in the high altar. The figure of the holy Dismas on the north wall of the choir was created by Ehrgott Bernhard Bendl in 1720; the version is by Franz Boo from Aichach . The figure opposite, about just as old, shows St. Wilgefortis , who was a votive offering from Baron von Deuring from Stätzling . The two glass paintings in the choir are from the Mittermaier Art Institute in Lauingen . The current organ was designed by Josef Zeilhuber in 1952. It comprises 22 registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal .

Pilgrimage

The parish church in Hollenbach was one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the Wittelsbacher Land as early as the 16th century . A first book of miracles burned in the Thirty Years War, but two later ones have survived. The first records date to January 1709. Initially, only the surrounding communities made pilgrimages to Hollenbach, but soon also believers from Ingolstadt and Friedberg . More than 3500 engagements are documented by 1818 . From 1784, the entries decrease sharply in the course of the Enlightenment and end in 1818.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Thal church near Großhöhenrain , accessed on April 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Raab, Gabriele and Hubert: Pilgrimage routes in the Wittelsbacher Land: around known and forgotten pilgrimage sites . Wissner, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89639-795-9 .
  3. ↑ a b c Parish Community Inchenhofen. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  4. ^ Architectural monuments Hollenbach. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, July 3, 2018, accessed on December 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Bavarian Organ Database, Version 5

Coordinates: 48 ° 29  '17.7 " N , 11 ° 4' 24.7"  E