St. Salvator (Mirskofen)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Salvator in Mirskofen , a district of the market town of Essenbach in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a small Baroque hall church that was built in the 17th or 18th century. The side church of the parish Mater Dolorosa in Mirskofen is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-128-30 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
history
The legend of the origins of the church says that in the year 888 a farmer from the Rottenburg area near today's Mirskofen had run out of oxen . He vowed that where they would stop and graze, he would build a church. This legend could be read on a board that was set up earlier.
In fact, today's Salvatorkirche - then called the Twelve Apostles Church - was first documented in 1500 by a register and in 1508 by a report on a parish visit . In the parapet of the gallery there is still a late Gothic figure of Salvator from 1510, which indicates that the church was built in the 15th century. The current church is likely to have been built in the 17th or early 18th century. The choir was later laid down and rebuilt in the Rococo style in the mid-18th century .
description
architecture
Today's hall building , facing east, consists of a two-bay nave and a single bay choir that is not drawn in and ends with a semicircular apse . A roof turret with an onion dome towers above it . While the window openings of the nave have straight soffits and are rounded off with a rounded arch, the windows of the later built altar house are designed as so-called bass violin windows with curved soffits. The interior of the choir has a wooden- paneled flat ceiling resting on pilasters , which is slightly drawn down on the sides.
Furnishing
The high altar is dated to around 1700, so it should still come from the previous building. It shows a carved figure of the Holy Redeemer (St. Salvator) in the center; the saints Paul (left) and John (right) act as side figures .
The parapet of the west gallery is distinguished by a late Gothic Salvator figure from around 1510. In addition, two oil paintings from the 18th century decorate the interior of the church: the handover of the keys to Peter is shown on the south wall of the nave , opposite the marriage of Mary . Next to it is a large, finely crafted crucifix that was previously used as a lecture cross in the Mater Dolorosa parish church. In the choir there are figures of Saints James and John Nepomuk in two shrines .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Church of St. Salvator . Online at www.pfarramt-essenbach.de ; accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ^ Anton Eckardt (ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut . Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, p. 163 ( digitized version ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 ′ 51.8 " N , 12 ° 11 ′ 27.6" E