St. Peter and Paul (Aicha vorm Wald)

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St. Peter and Paul

The Catholic parish church of St. Petrus and Paulus is a listed church building in Aicha vorm Wald , a community in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .

history

The tower was still preserved from the original medieval front church. It was included in the new building from 1726 to 1737. The originally Gothic building was redesigned in the early Rococo style. The prince-elector mason Gregor Sälzl made a cost estimate in which the new building of the choir was already planned. Around 1734 Johann Michael Fischer from Munich was called in to expand the side chapels and the choir. In 1735 the building was consecrated according to the inscription next to the high altar. Presumably by this time the equipment was also largely complete.

architecture

The building is a three-bay nave with a west gallery . In front of the semicircular choir , the structure is cut through by a short transept . The crossing is provided with a flat oval pendentive dome , which has been exaggerated illusionistically by the painting .

The room structure shows unusual details that are typical of the architectural signature of Johann Michael Fischer. The continuous entablature is cranked over the wide pilaster strips and provided with acanthus leaves on the frieze, which indicate capitals. The wide, curved windows extend far into the vault and break through the entablature to the architrave . An independent solution was found for the difficult connection of the trapezoidal cross arms with a pillar-like corner reinforcement of the sloping walls. Above these bevels, triangular needle caps are arranged from the respective central rectangular vault field, which is assigned to the window. The sloping walls are formed in arched niches under the beams.

Painting and ceiling stucco

The ceiling paintings were created by Andreas Math from Vilshofen and some of them have been heavily restored. The frescoes are executed in rough forms with heavy coloring. The spatial impression is shaped by the pseudo-perspective dome hall as the location of the Pentecostal miracle , which is painted on the flat crossing vault. The solution of the perspective architecture representation is noteworthy. The dove of the Holy Spirit sends down the tongues of flame to Mary and the apostles . The groups of figures are distributed between the pillars of the rotunda . In the dome, music-making angels are shown floating around a wreath of clouds. The evangelists are depicted on the pendentives.

The fields in the transverse arms show scenes from the life of Mary and the image of the Immaculate . The martyrdom of St. Paul is depicted in the nave and the crucifixion of Peter in the choir . The vaulting is made in the fine forms of the late rain style and shows strictly symmetrical ornaments made of ribbons and tendrils with grid fields that refer to the curved profile frames of the paintings. The parapet of the west gallery with a balcony-like middle section is also stuccoed.

Furnishing

The stucco marble furnishings create a uniform spatial appearance with the architecture. The high altar, which forms a flat tribuna, is carefully fitted into the rounded end of the choir. In front of the central niche there is a group of the farewell princes of the apostles . On the side are angels with the attributes of Peter and Paul.

In the side niches of the transverse arms, aedicules with sarcophagi are inserted, on which there are sculptures of St. Francis Xavier and Sebastian. The pulpit connected to a gallery on the north wall of the choir shows the parable of the sower in relief. In the south arm there is a late Gothic figure of Mary with a child from around 1500, holding a pear.

literature

  • Reclam's Art Guide to Architectural Monuments, Volume I, Bavaria, 1961

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments. Bavaria II - Lower Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 . Pp. 12-13.
  2. ↑ Reclam's Art Guide to Architectural Monuments, Volume I, Bavaria, 1961, page 10

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 20.2 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 24.4"  E