St. Peter and Paul (Starnberg)
St. Peter and Paul is a branch church in the Starnberg part of Rieden . The late Gothic church underwent changes and additions over the centuries. The church is a listed building.
History and building history
It is assumed that Rieden is a Carolingian foundation. The church can therefore be significantly older than it is in its current late Gothic form. Nothing is documented or archaeologically known about previous buildings, it is assumed that the patronage of St. Peter and Paul is not customary in the area and one of the oldest, which could be an indication of the old age of the church or a predecessor. The shape of the altar stipes is also pre-Gothic. Rieden belonged to the Wittelsbach family as early as the 13th century . a. in monastic ownership and came back to the House of Wittelsbach through purchase in 1904, which is reflected in the grave monuments and graves here.
The church itself was changed and supplemented several times. Changes to the interior are documented from the Baroque period , around 1670, and the octagonal tower also dates from this period. The church windows were fitted in their present form with the curves in 1702. The sacristy adjoining to the east was built in its current form in 1739, a few years earlier, in 1730, the small vestibule was built on the south side. In 1906 the church became a burial chapel. In the course of a renovation in the 1950s / 60s, the church lost all of its jewelry, the stucco work , including the frescoes on it, including Gothic wall paintings, were simply removed, and the baroque inventory was moved to unknown locations. Instead of the ceiling from the Baroque era, a ceiling made of simple wooden slats was installed. In 1991 a conservation restoration brought the church back to some extent of its baroque splendor.
Structure and equipment
The choir of the small single-aisle hall church is trapezoidal . A wrought iron lattice from 1908 separates a small area under the tower from the actual nave, this area is slightly arched in segments. According to the changes, the church has a flat roof, in the ceiling there are clay-shaped paintings of the four evangelists . The benches date from 1910.
The high altar made by Georg Wunderl in 1667 is an eye-catcher. Wunderl came from Wolfratshausen and worked mainly in this area, including in Eulenschwang . The altar has three levels and is mainly painted in smalt blue and gold leaf . The predella contains a cherub's head on the left and right , in the middle is the small, barred reliquary . The main field contains a figure of one of the church's patrons, St. Peter himself, sitting in front of a gilded background. The structure is supported by gilded columns of the Corinthian order, but modified in a high baroque style and decorated with garlands and ornaments on the column shafts. The middle part is flanked by two figures, St. Erasmus on the left and St. Nicholas on the right . The altar is closed off vertically by a blown segmented arched gable with a portrait and small flame vases.
In the middle of the sanctuary, the red is marble created grave of Princess Mathilde of Bavaria , a subsidiary of King Ludwig III. , she died in 1906 at the age of 28. The reclining princess is depicted with mourning putti, at her feet, according to her marriage and origin, there is a coat of arms with the coat of arms of the House of Wittelsbach and the House of Saxony, Coburg and Gotha . The tomb is a work by Knut Åkerberg , a pupil of Adolf von Hildebrand and dates from the year the princess died.
The crucifix on the north wall of the church is a work by Joseph Krinner from 1729; his father, Anton Krinner, previously created the work of a Rosary Madonna opposite in 1703 .
The pulpit from 1678 by Hans Nursch and the side altar by Balthasar Zwinck from 1697 are lost.
graveyard
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A number of members of the nobility and other personalities are buried in the small cemetery, primarily members of the House of Bourbon who were married to the Wittelsbach family or of their branch line Bourbon-Sicily and other noble houses. Are buried:
- Princess Maria von Bayern (1872–1954), a sister of Mathilde von Bayern, who was buried in the church, in a double grave with her husband
- Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon-Sicily , Duke of Calabria (1869–1960) and three of their children:
- Princess Maria Antoinetta of Bourbon-Sicily (1898–1957),
- Prince Roger of Bourbon-Sicily, Duke of Noto (1901–1914) and
- Princess Urraca of Bourbon-Sicily (1913–1999).
Behind it is the grave for a son of Mathilde von Bayern:
- Prince Antonius of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1901–1970) from her marriage to Ludwig Gaston of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha .
Also buried here are:
- Chlodwig Prinz zur Lippe (1909–2000), a son of the last reigning Prince of Lippe, Leopold IV. In a double grave with his wife
- Veronika Princess zur Lippe (1915-2007)
- Eleonora von Mudra (1893–2000) in a double grave with her daughter
- Rosmarie von Tresckow (1919–2013)
- Hermann Freiherr von Mylius (1928–1995)
- Kurt von Schablowsky (1928–2007).
Next to it is the tomb of Feodor Lynen (1911–1979), the 1964 Nobel Prize winner for medicine.
The local researcher and poet Paul Ernst Rattelmüller (1924–2004) and the surgeon Josef Kastert (1910–1993), a pioneer of surgical TB control and social medicine, are also buried.
literature
- Lothar Altmann, Fritz Demmel: The Filialkirche Rieden in: Catholic Churches - Starnberg , Kleine Kunstführer series No. 168, originally published. by Hugo Schnell, 5th edition, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian list of monuments, file number D-1-88-139-107
- ↑ Altmann, Demmel: Die Filialkirche Rieden , p. 25.
- ↑ a b Altmann, Demmel: Die Filialkirche Rieden , p. 26.
- ↑ Altmann, Demmel: Die Filialkirche Rieden , p. 28.
- ↑ Altmann, Demmel: Die Filialkirche Rieden , p. 29.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 30 " N , 11 ° 20 ′ 52.2" E