St. Peter and Paul (Schafshill)
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 32 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 46 ″ E
The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a sacred building from the 14th century in Schafshill in the Altmannstein community in the Eichstätt district in Upper Bavaria .
It is a branch church of the parish of Schamhaupten . The Church's patronage is celebrated on June 29th.
Building history and exterior construction
The branch church of St. Peter and Paul is slightly elevated on the northern edge of the village in the middle of adjacent manors . From the south, steep stairs lead to the walled churchyard . The current church is an early Gothic building from the 14th century . To a drawn-square choir , the closing nave on. The three-storey tower crowned by an onion dome rises to the west and the church portal is located in the south side. According to a bell inscription, the current tower dates from 1811. In the western part of the south wall of the nave is a massive extension, the enormous wall thickness of which indicates a medieval origin. This is probably the base of the medieval tower. The former southern entrance to the church is still visible today from a niche in the inner wall. In the 18th century , the sacristy north of the choir was built with barrel vaults and stitch caps and the nave was re-covered. The nave was opened through two large arched windows. The old tower was demolished and redesigned as a gallery staircase. A brightly colored neo-Gothic painting of the interior was removed again in the course of some renovations in the 20th century .
Interior and equipment
The nave has a flat roof, the ceiling is adorned with four stucco rosettes and a circumferential hollow profile . The west wall is occupied by a gallery on which an organ prospect in neo-renaissance form rises. The cross-rib vaulted choir shows clear forms of the previous building: The supports of the ribs consist of figural consoles (female head or bearded male head) and end in a star rosette. A remarkable Gothic sacraments niche is walled in on the southern choir wall below the arched window (second half of the 14th century ). The baroque interior of the church dates back to around 1720. The high altar rises above four columns, the outer ones turned and covered with carved acanthus vines. A segmented gable aedicula rises above a cranked entablature , flanked by vertical gable legs, on which two putti rises . The middle section of the high altar is formed by a large shrine containing the figure of a Nazarene Immaculate from the Mayer'schen Hofkunstanstalt (approx. 1875–99), flanked by baroque figures of the church patrons Peter and Paul . The southern side altar (approx. 1735–49) presents itself as a two-pillar aedicula, with the carved figure of St. Wendelin in a niche in the middle part . In the curly excerpt there is a painting with a half-length figure of St. Blaise . The altar used to be a Marian altar (see Marian symbol in the extract), the figure of St. Wendelin could have come from the middle shrine of the high altar, especially since the saint is named in the baroque inscription tondo on the front wall of the choir arch next to Peter and Paul. In the tabernacle shrine there is a baroque sculpture of the Savior on the scourge column. Several figures in the nave come from the time of the baroque refurbishment of the church: St. Wendelin (north aisle wall), Mary with child on a cloud throne (north choir front wall, possibly from the middle shrine of the side altar), crucifix (baroque lecture cross), two candlestick angels as essays of carrying bars. A neo-baroque cycle of the Stations of the Cross (late 19th century oil on metal) hangs on the side walls . The pews from the Baroque period with carved oak wood pegs are largely original. The bell without an inscription (14th century), which existed until the beginning of the 20th century, has been lost; today three newer bells from the Hahn company from Landshut hang in the tower.
meaning
The church fits harmoniously into the village of Schafshill and is still the traditional spiritual center of the place. The decor is a fine example of the region's rural Baroque and Rococo sculpture. (See list of monuments in Altmannstein, Schafshill .)