St. Rupert (Oberdießen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Rupert in Oberdießen, a district of the municipality of Unterdießen in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , is essentially a late Gothic building from the 15th century, which was converted to Baroque style around 1740 . The patron saint of the church is St. Rupert , Bishop of Worms and first Bishop of Salzburg . The church, which is surrounded by a walled cemetery, is a protected architectural monument .
architecture
Exterior construction
The three-axle nave , covered by a gable roof , is structured on the outside by pilaster strips . The high arched windows are decorated with fags . In the west facade, to which a sign was added in 1848 , a semicircular window opens under the gable.
In the northern corner of the choir stands the bell tower, which is also covered with a gable roof, which is divided by corner pilasters and glare fields with three-pass friezes. The bell storey is broken through on three sides by arched, coupled sound arcades . In the southern corner of the choir is the two-storey sacristy , which is covered with a pent roof.
inner space
The single-nave nave is covered by a spear cap barrel. A basket arched choir arch leads to the retracted choir with a three-eighths ending . The western end of the nave is formed by a gallery resting on narrow wooden pillars on which the organ is installed. The stucco decor , which mainly consists of foliage and ribbon work , was created around 1740.
Stucco decor
Stucco decor
organ
Ceiling painting
The ceiling frescoes were made by Matthias Wolcker from Dillingen an der Donau in 1741 and repainted in 1869 and 1922. Today's ceiling paintings depicting St. Rupert, the church patron , are a work by Franz Reinhardt from 1922. The choir fresco originally created by Matthias Wolcker was uncovered again in 1961. It depicts the death of St. Rupert, in the cartouches on the side you can see John Nepomuk and - an addition from 2008 - St. Joseph with the baby Jesus .
Furnishing
- The in Rundbogenstil running high altar was revised in 1880th The figures in the side niches, Saint Franz Xaver and Saint Sebastian , were added by the sculptor Leopold Mutter , who works in Munich . The altarpiece with the representation of St. Rupert painted Johann Nepomuk Weckerle from Edelstetten .
- The only reminder of the neo-Romanesque side altars, which were installed in 1857 and removed in 1960, are niches framed by gilded arched frames, in which the carved figures of a Madonna and Child and St. Wendelin are set up.
- The pulpit was created in 1879.
- The figures on the north wall of the choir, Saint Barbara of Nicomedia and Maria Magdalena , are dated around 1500.
- The figures of St. Sebastian and St. Rochus of Montpellier are works from the middle of the 18th century.
- The Stations of the Cross with their gilded Rocailles frames date from the late 18th century.
- The cheeks of the pews were carved in the 19th century.
Saint Barbara
Mary Magdalene
Saint Sebastian
Rochus of Montpellier
literature
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 773-775 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish St. Rupert - Oberdießen Diocese of Augsburg
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 8.5 ″ E