St. Sebastian (Ebersberg)

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St. Sebastian
Interior to the east

St. Sebastian is the Roman Catholic parish church in the district town of Ebersberg in Upper Bavaria . Until 1808 it was the monastery church of the Ebersberg monastery . The thousand-year tradition of Sebastian - Pilgrimage is still alive.

history

The building history of the church is closely related to the history of the monastery. In the Lady Chapel of the Castle Ebersberg who built Counts of Ebersberg 934 a small Augustinian canons - pin . The first provost, Hunfried , brought the martyr Sebastian's skull with him from a trip to Rome , an invaluable relic that quickly led pilgrims and offerings to Ebersberg. In 970 the pre-Romanesque collegiate church of St. Marien and St. Sebastian was completed.

The ceiling frescoes on the nave vault
Look into the choir

In 1007 Count Ulrich converted the monastery into a Benedictine abbey , for which he obtained imperial immediacy . In the 1220s the Romanesque abbey church was built, which still forms the core of today's church. Only the south tower of the planned double tower facade was realized. A restoration after fire damage took place in 1305-1312, an extension of the choir 1450-1455. In 1452 Nikolaus von Kues came to Ebersberg for the altar consecration . In the 1480s, the tower was raised and the nave expanded into a late Gothic hall . During these decades the monastery reached the climax of its spiritual and cultural importance, as evidenced by valuable illuminated manuscripts from the monastery library.

After the decline of the Benedictine convent in the Reformation century, Bavarian Duke Wilhelm V handed the monastery over to the Jesuits in 1595 , who used it in conjunction with their Munich college . After the Thirty Years War they renewed the buildings. 1668–1681 they rebuilt the upper sacristy on the north side of the choir to become the Sebastian Chapel as a place of worship for the relic. The church itself was redesigned in baroque style in 1733/34 under the direction of Johann Georg Ettenhofer .

After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, a convent fire in 1781 also badly affected the church. Elector Karl Theodor handed the damaged ensemble over to the Knights of Malta , who restored it in modified form. The current vaults of the church, the painting and the tower dome were created.

St. Sebastian has been a parish church since secularization in 1808. The old Ebersberg parish church of St. Valentin was demolished; Parts of the equipment came to St. Sebastian. The former convent buildings are used by the state and privately.

The church was carefully restored inside and out in the 20th century. The tower shaft regained its Romanesque character in 1968. The mighty tower houses a chime, which is relatively modest for its dimensions, in the striking sequence b ° - d '- f' - g '- a'.

construction

St. Sebastian is a three-aisled east - facing hall church. The nave is relatively short with only five bays , followed by the narrower, four-bay choir with a polygonal apse , to whose north side the rectangular Sebastian chapel is attached. In the southwest corner of the nave is the square Romanesque bell tower with a Welsch dome . There is a vestibule in front of the actual portal.

The interior appears in the baroque form of the 18th century. The late Gothic columns were encased in baroque style in the 1730s. The barrel vaults with stitch caps from the 1780s already show a classical sense of style in terms of shape and decoration .

Furnishing

St. Sebastian has except the rich baroque and rococo - altars and pulpit - and significant works of art from ancient times, including many figures founder Tomb of Count Ulrich († 1029) and his wife Richardis from the 15th century and the remains of a larger than life Christopher fresco (around 1500).

Parts of the Sebastian cycle from 1750 are still preserved in the choir. Franz Seraph Kirzinger created the ceiling paintings after the fire of 1781; They refer thematically to the church patron Sebastian and the Order of Malta.

The early baroque furnishings of the Sebastian chapel with ceiling stucco , oil paintings and a marble altar (1671) are particularly valuable . The actual sanctuary is exhibited in its center, the silver bust reliquary from 1450 with the skull of St. Sebastian.

  • The Sebastian relic

  • The bust reliquary

  • If you take off your hat, the silver-framed skull appears

  • The skull can also be removed

  • In the cranium, the believers are said to have been offered wine earlier, which was supposed to cure all diseases.

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Sebastian  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich VI confirmed this status . 1193, but it was never fully recognized by the Bavarian dukes and was effectively extinguished in the late Middle Ages ( Julius Ficker : Vom Reichsfürstenstande , 1861).
  2. ^ Ebersberg St. Sebastian Plenum . Online www.youtube.com; accessed on February 9, 2017.

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 '39.4 "  N , 11 ° 58' 17.4"  E