St. Rochus (Bad Kohlgrub)

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Rochuskirche Bad Kohlgrub

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Rochus is located on a hill above the center of the municipality of Bad Kohlgrub in the Upper Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen . It belongs to the parish of St. Martin Bad Kohlgrub in the Rottenbuch deanery of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . The church building is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

The residents of Kohlgrub were particularly hard hit by the plague during the Thirty Years War . Therefore, in 1633, they took the vow to build a chapel in honor of the plague saint Rochus to avert the plague . Construction began in 1635. It was probably consecrated two years later. Over time, the little church became a sought-after place of pilgrimage, so it was decided to build a new building for the centenary of the vow in 1733. Threatened in its existence after secularization , the church could be saved. In 1895, after the parish cemetery had become too small, a second local cemetery was created instead of the plague and foreign cemetery. In 1965 a sign and an annex to the sacristy were built. The church was completely renovated by 1983.

description

The church is a simple hall with three bays , which is closed by a three-eight choir . The windows are arched at the top and bottom, with the arches being slightly indented. The west side is completely clapboard. A square tower protrudes halfway from it, which at the level of the roof merges into an octagon crowned by an onion . In the interior, the choir is rounded and separated from the nave by a choir arch supported by volutes . It is covered by a flat dome, while the ship is closed by a stitch cap ceiling.

Stucco and fresco

Inside, delicate stucco stucco work attributed to Joseph Schmutzer accompanies the three large fresco fields of the ship and the oval fresco of the choir. In the stitch caps there are oval picture fields with emblems . The frescoes are probably from the Murnau painter Augustin Bernhardt . They illustrate the life of the church patron Rochus. The side emblems with Latin texts explain the main fresco, which has a German description.

Western image: St. Rochus gives alms ("The poor consolation")

  • Emblem on the left: jumping deer without antlers. PROJECTIS AGILIOR (he jumps easier because he lays down the load)
  • Emblem on the right: molting snake. IUVAT ABICISSE CADUCUM (she is happy to have thrown off the ephemeral) The saint strips off earthly goods and can thus more easily follow Christ.

Middle picture: St. Rochus cares for the sick ("Help the sick")

  • Emblem on the left: pelican who nourishes its young on its own blood. IMMEMOR IPSE SUI (He doesn't think of himself)
  • Emblem on the right: swarm of bees swarming out of the beehive, which the sun rescues from its winter solidification. SOSPITAT INTUITU (she saves by her shine)

Like Christ, the saint consumes himself selflessly to help those in need.

Picture in front of the choir arch: Death of St. Rochus in the dungeon ("A General Refuge")

  • Emblem on the left: bird throwing food from the tree for its young. ET MEMOR AB ALTO (he is mindful from above)
  • Emblem on the right: Phoenix flying towards the sun. SINE PONDERE SURSUM (no load upwards). The Saint goes to heaven without any burden of sin and intercedes for the believers there.

Image in the choir: Adoration of the corpse of St. Rochus ("A great saint")

  • Emblem on the left: Setting sun. DUM MORIOR ORIOR (By dying, I rise)
  • Center emblem: censer. SUAVIS UBIQUE (he's cute everywhere) The inscription is hidden by the altar.
  • Emblem on the right: star over night landscape. STELLA MATUTINA (morning star): In death the saint begins to be effective for believers everywhere.

Furnishing

The high altar is a splendid two-column structure from the construction period and can be attributed to the workshop of Franz Xaver Schmädl . In the middle is a sculpture of the Immaculate in Glory. The assistant figures represent the plague saints Sebastian and Rochus. On the predella is a figure of the scourged Savior in a simple shrine. On the gallery parapet is a view of the newly built little church in the middle of the rural donors in their traditional costumes. On the side there are pictures with the attributes of St. Rochus with two inscriptions that indicate the circumstances of the vow. The church still has a remnant of votive tablets that have found their place in the choir. Most, however, were stolen during the 20th century. In the nave are images of saints from the 18th century and a cross with the Mother of Sorrows from the 19th century.

literature

  • Luitraud Ober: Kohlgrub. A local history; With special consideration of the time under the two monasteries Rottenbuch and Ettal 1295 / 1330–1803. St. Ottilien 1956.
  • Hans Greinwald: Festschrift for the Bad Kohlgruber festivities. Bad Kohlgrub 1986.
  • Laurentius Koch OSB: The churches of the parish Bad Kohlgrub. Salzburg 2001.
  • Christl Neumaier: Bad Kohlgrub and its parish church. Bad Kohlgrub 1968

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Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 15.8 "  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 51.5"  E