St. Sebastian (Ramsau)

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St. Sebastian
Parish Church of St. Sebastian (Malerwinkel perspective)

Parish Church of St. Sebastian
(Malerwinkel perspective)
Construction year: 1512
Client: Prince Provost Gregor Rainer
Floor space: 35.7 × 11.7 m
Location: 47 ° 36 '26.6 "  N , 12 ° 53' 41.9"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '26.6 "  N , 12 ° 53' 41.9"  E
Address: Im Tal 80, 83486 Ramsau b. Berchtesgaden
Taubensee (Ramsau)
Bavaria , Germany
Purpose: Roman Catholic parish church
Local community: Ramsau near Berchtesgaden
Parish: St. Sebastian

The parish church of St. Sebastian is a Roman Catholic , listed church in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden . It is located in the center and belongs to the area of ​​the Gnotschaft Taubensee . It gained fame as a motif in landscape painting .

Buildings and history

Construction and renovations to form an ensemble

West facade

The church was built in 1512 under Prince Provost Gregor Rainer and is consecrated to Saints Sebastian and Fabian .

Built in the late Gothic style, the church was expanded several times from the 16th century and a stone tower was added in 1610/1611. In 1697/1699 it was finally redesigned in baroque style together with the tower, which was built in 1700 and covered with an onion dome, and covered with wooden shingles.

To the east of the church is the historic cemetery with a mortuary and a former children's cemetery . It is followed by the war memorial in memory of the Ramsau people who died in World War II . The eastern end of the ensemble is the Mesnerhaus . North of the church extending in an elevated position of the new cemetery, west parsonage with the parish , between the war memorial stands for in the First World War fallen soldiers of the community.

First branch church, then parish church

The church was looked after from Berchtesgaden for 150 years . From 1657 a canon resided at the church as vicar of the Berchtesgaden parish, who in 1659 had his own parsonage. After secularization , an independent parish was established within the Deanery of Berchtesgaden for the area of ​​the municipality of Ramsau in 1812 and the church of St. Sebastian was elevated to a parish church .

The church as a motive

The parish church of St. Sebastian was captured on sketches, drawings and paintings by painters such as Wilhelm Bendz , Thomas Fearnley , Ferdinand Runk , Ferdinand Laufberger , Wilhelm Busch , Otto Pippel and Will Klinger-Franken . However, while Fearnley (1830) and Loos (1836) , for example, still chose the perspective from the west or from the former village center at Gasthof Oberwirt towards the church with the Göll in the background, towards the end of the 19th century the perspective changed in the opposite direction , and the viewpoint called Malerwinkel today with Ramsauer Ache and Ertlsteg in the foreground and the Reiter Alpe in the background prevailed.

In 1960 US President Eisenhower painted the church with his own hand based on a color photo. His work was reproduced as a Christmas present for White House staff and published in the European edition of Stars and Stripes , the daily newspaper of the US armed forces.

It can also be found on a puzzle , and a model of the church is sold as an accessory for model railways by the toy manufacturer Viessmann Modellspielwaren under the Kibri brand .

On the occasion of its 500th anniversary in 2012, the municipality of Ramsau set up a “1. Open ExTempore für Bildkunst im Berchtesgadener Land ” , with the requirement to work on a motif from the Ramsau landscape or the ambiguous subject of" Magic Forest ". As part of this competition, which is contested by over 100 artists from home and abroad, new works of art with the parish church were created.

In addition, it still serves as the central motif on countless photo and postcards .

Furnishing

The church has a high altar and four side altars. After the Second Vatican Council a popular altar was added. On the balustrade of the organ loft, there are framed wooden figures of Jesus and the twelve apostles , which are estimated to have been made around 1430. They are older than the church and, together with the row of apostles in Marktschellenberg, are considered to be the most valuable small sculptures of the late Gothic in the area of ​​the former prince-provost of Berchtesgaden . Its previous location is just as unknown as the presumably local master who created it.

  • Apse with high altar and side altars

Trivia

On his way to Mariapfarr , Joseph Mohr came to the Ramsau vicarage in 1815 and was employed as a parish assistant for a few weeks at the request of the pastor . A year later he wrote the text of the world-famous Christmas carol Silent Night in Mariapfarr .

Web links

Commons : St. Sebastian (Ramsau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • kirche-ramsau.de Website of the parish of Ramsau on the parish church of St. Sebastian

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ramsau.de ( Memento from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 31, 2019.
  2. ↑ Christoph Karbacher: Berchtesgaden as a motif of landscape painting. S. 304, in: Walter Brugger u. a. (Ed.): History of Berchtesgaden. Volume III / 1, Berchtesgaden 1998, pp. 287-312.
  3. ↑ Walter Brugger (ed.) U. a .: History of Berchtesgaden. Volume I, 1991, p. 1085.
  4. ^ The parish church of St. Sebastian , online at kirche-ramsau.de
  5. ↑ books.google.de Monuments in Bavaria, Volume 1–2 By Michael Petzet; P. 141
  6. ↑ kirche-ramsau.de Reference to “200 years of independent Ramsau parish” p. 36 of 36 pages of the PDF file “Ramsauer Pfarrbrief”, issue 2/2012
  7. ↑ On Fearnley, Runk, Laufberger and Busch: Page no longer available , search in web archives: www.ramsau-berchtesgaden.de Malerrundweg Ramsau@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ramsau-berchtesgaden.de
  8. ↑ Christoph Karbacher: Berchtesgaden as a motif of landscape painting. S. 304, in: Walter Brugger u. a. (Ed.): History of Berchtesgaden. Volume III / 1, Berchtesgaden 1998, pp. 287-312.
  9. ↑ Karl Komposch: Ramsau 50 years ago, Ramsau in 1960. p. 19, in: Arbeitskreis Ortsbild-Verkehr der Village Renewal in cooperation with the municipality of Ramsau (ed.): Ramsauer Bladl, No. 43, Dec. 2010, p. 18-19.
  10. ↑ viessmann-modell.com ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Model railway accessories building "H0 Church in Ramsau" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.viessmann-modell.com
  11. ↑ kp: Artist competition: Portrait of Ramsau online at bgland24.de on May 23, 2012
  12. ↑ Christian Holzner: Open Art Symposium at Hintersee ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rfo.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; a contribution to the "international 'ExTempore' for visual art" from June 21st to 24th, 2012 in Ramsau for the regional television Upper Bavaria on May 10th, 2012
  13. ↑ salz-der-heimat.eu See review: PROJECTS - Invitation to the international ExTempore for visual art in Ramsau near Berchtesgaden
  14. ↑ Christian Holzner: Painters' symposium on Hintersee begins ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rfo.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; a contribution to the “international 'ExTempore' for visual art” from June 21st to 24th, 2012 in Ramsau for the Upper Bavaria regional television on June 22nd, 2012
  15. ↑ kp: Extempore: Pictures with regional references online at bgland24.de on June 27, 2012
  16. ↑ Walter Brugger (ed.) U. a .: History of Berchtesgaden. Volume I, 1991, p. 1086.
  17. ↑ Otto Franz Gensichen:  Mohr, Joseph Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 435.
  18. ↑ Hellmut Schöner (ed.), A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time . Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger publishing house and Karl M. Lipp publishing house, Munich 1973. pp. 223–224
    Entry in the Ramsau parish chronicle: “Josef Mohr (..) came here on August 29, 1815, since he was already destined for Mariapfarr in Lungau and stayed with the approval of the Most Revered Consistory for temporary help until October 10, 1815, on which day he left. ” Helm also says: “ M. was on the way to his first office, he will now have called on the rectory in Ramsau to stay overnight. "
  19. ↑ www.gratis-gedicht.de Entry Joseph Mohr