St. Remigius (Lappach)
The Catholic branch church St. Remigius in Lappach , a district of the municipality of Sankt Wolfgang in the Upper Bavarian district of Erding , is a late Gothic church building from the 15th century. The church is consecrated to St. Remigius , the bishop of Reims in the 5th / 6th centuries. Century, which, according to tradition, baptized the Merovingian king Clovis I around the year 500 and thus initiated the Christianization of the Franks . In the choir of the church are murals obtained from the construction period. The Remigius Church is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.
history
Today's church was built around 1420 on the site of a previous building, the construction of which can be traced back to the 8th or 9th century. The previous church was probably during the ox war , the dispute between Heinrich XVI. , the Duke of Bavaria-Landshut , and the county of Haag . After 1467 the interior was vaulted.
architecture
Exterior construction
In the northern corner of the choir stands the noticeably high tower, structured by cornices , glare fields and arched friezes, which is crowned by corner pieces and a pointed helmet. The lower floors go back to the previous Romanesque building.
inner space
The interior consists of a single nave and a strongly recessed, polygonal closed choir . The nave and choir are covered by net vaults, the ribs of which rest on consoles . The vault keystones are decorated with coats of arms and depictions of two bishops. The nave is divided into deeply cut wall pillars with services in front of them , between which chapel-like rooms with pointed arcades and net vaults open up. The divider arches rest on consoles that are sculpted as busts with banners in their hands.
Murals
The late Gothic wall paintings in the choir were exposed in 1939 and 1971. The lower part of the wall is painted with a surrounding drapery. Scenes from the Passion are depicted in the strips above: Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Jesus being arrested and interrogated, Jesus carries the cross, Jesus appears to the Apostle Thomas after his resurrection . The door to the tower is framed by a tendril painting.
Four apostles can be seen in the upper picture above the passion scenes . On the right pillar of the choir arch there is a larger than life representation of St. Christopher .
Furnishing
- The neo-Gothic high altar from 1862 still contains two earlier figures. The figure of St. Remigius, the church patron, is dated around 1520/30, the figure of St. Ulrich von Augsburg around 1470. The figure of St. Martin is neo-Gothic.
- The two side altars, like the altar figures, on the left a crescent Madonna surrounded by St. Barbara and St. Odilia , on the right St. Sebastian surrounded by St. Christopher and St. Isidore of Madrid , date from around 1730.
- In the nave there is another figure of St. Remigius from the baroque period.
- The colored and partially gilded bas-reliefs of the pairs of apostles on the nave walls are works from around 1510.
- Painted and plastic remains of a Gothic tabernacle are preserved in the choir .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 586.
- Georg Hackl: St. Wolfgang near Dorfen . Art Guide No. 1020, 4th edition, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-7954-4752-6 , pp. 22-23.
Web links
- The church in Lappach parish of St. Wolfgang
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Sankt Wolfgang (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-77-137-28 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 8 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 50 ″ E