St. Sixtus (Moorenweis)
The Catholic parish church of St. Sixtus in Moorenweis , a municipality in the Fürstenfeldbruck district in the Upper Bavarian administrative district , was built in the Baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century . The ceiling frescoes were created by Matthäus Günther . The church is dedicated to Pope Sixtus II , who died a martyr in the 3rd century and is venerated as a saint.
history
The origins of the parish church of Moorenweis are obscure, as there are no early written sources about the church. There was presumably a manorial church that was donated to the Wessobrunn Monastery between 1150 and 1160, together with the estate belonging to it . In the 14th century two local priests are named in documents. The first written mention of the church comes from the year 1554. From 1603 all pastors of Moorenweis are attested.
The present church was started in 1718 under the direction of the Wessobrunn master builder Joseph Schmuzer . The tower was built in 1727. The church was consecrated in 1742, the interior was not finished until 1776.
architecture
Exterior construction
In the northern corner of the choir stands the bell tower covered with an onion dome, the two lower, square floors of which support a single-storey octagonal structure. The upper part of the tower was renewed after a fire in 1811. The tower is broken up by high arched windows on all three floors.
inner space
The single-nave nave is divided into four bays . The choir and nave are covered by barrels with lancet caps , which rest on simple pilasters in the choir and on coupled pilasters with Tuscan capitals in the nave . The retracted choir is closed in a semicircle. A double gallery is built in to the west, the organ is housed on the upper gallery .
Piece
The stucco was carried out in 1775/76 by Tassilo Zöpf . The two cartouches on the choir arch contain the double coat of arms of the Wessobrunn abbot Engelbert Goggl (in office from 1770 to 1781), the Peter key and a cock as an allusion to his name. Above is a miter , on the side on clouds an angel's head and a putto with the abbot's staff . The year 1775 can be read under the two coats of arms.
A dove with a ring in its beak hovers above the Marian monogram on the ceiling. The wreath of lilies and roses refers to the Wessobrunn miraculous image of Mary, mother of beautiful love .
Ceiling frescoes
The fresco in the choir depicts the election of St. Sixtus as Pope. Sixtus sits on a throne under a canopy, a servant brings the tiara , the papal crown. A ray of light emanating from the Holy Spirit , who hovers in the shape of a dove under the painted dome, grazes the head of the saint.
The large nave fresco bears the signature “MGündter Pinxit 1775” (Matthäus Günther painted it in 1775). The fresco depicts imprisonment, the condemnation by Emperor Valerian , the execution and the glorification of the patron of the Moorenweiser Church.
The large ceiling picture is surrounded by six smaller cartouches in monochrome painting . The Annunciation is depicted on two scenes in red-brown tones, the Archangel Gabriel on the south side and Mary on the north side kneeling on her prayer chair. The yellow-tones of the pictures show the evangelists with their symbols , Matthew with the winged man, Mark with the lion, John with the eagle and Luke, who paints the Madonna, with the bull.
Evangelist Matthew
Mark the Evangelist
Evangelist Luke
Evangelist John
Gallery pictures
During the renovation in 1947, paintings and Latin inscriptions praising the monarchy were uncovered again on the gallery . They are dated to 1730. On the upper gallery the Bavarian diamond coat of arms can be seen on the left and the coat of arms of Austria on the right . The picture below on the lower gallery shows Moorenweis with his new church in 1730.
Furnishing
- The altars were made in stucco marble by Franz Schmuzer between 1721 and 1727 . The side figures of the high altar depict St. Martin with his attribute , the goose, on the left and St. Catherine on the right . The half-figure of the Madonna and Child above the tabernacle is attributed to the Augsburg carver Gregor Erhart and is dated around 1495. The altarpiece is dedicated to St. Sixtus.
- St. Ulrich and St. John Nepomuk are depicted on the altar panel of the left side altar . The chronogram of the inscription refers to the year 1778. Saint Afra and Maria Magdalena stand on the altar . Ulrich and Afra are the patrons of the Diocese of Augsburg , to which the Church of St. Sixtus belongs.
- The altarpiece on the right side altar is marked with the year 1726 and is dedicated to St. Leonhard , the patron saint of cattle. The side figures are Saint Roch , pointing to his plague bumps, and a figure clad in armor and crown, holding an arrow (perhaps the patron saint against the plague, Edmund of East Anglia ).
- The pulpit , like the altars, dates from between 1721 and 1727. The three angels on the pulpit hold a cross, an anchor and a heart, symbols of the divine virtues of faith, hope and love. Between the angels are the figures of Saints Ignatius of Loyola , Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xavier . The sound cover is crowned by a trumpet angel.
- In the so-called choir there is a renaissance altar, which probably served as the high altar of the old parish church, which was demolished in 1718. The seated figure of St. Sixtus in its center is dated around 1670/80.
- The epitaph on the north side of the nave from 1608 commemorates Pastor Georg Bader, who is shown kneeling in front of the cross.
Figures on the main altar
Figures on the side altar
pulpit
epitaph
organ
The organ is based on an eight-volume work by an unknown builder from 1730. After numerous modifications, the instrument was greatly expanded by the company Sandtner (Steinheim) in 1963 by adding additional side extensions to 18 registers , two manuals and a pedal . It has conical loading , electric play and Registertrakturen and is a free-standing gaming table being sounded. The disposition is:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P,
- Playing aids : Tutti, a free combination , crescendo
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria IV - Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2002, ISBN = 3-422-03010-7, p. 645.
- Norbert Steinhardt: Parish Church of St. Sixtus Moorenweis . Festschrift for the consecration of the parish church St. Sixtus Moorenweis. Edited by the St. Sixtus Catholic Parish Office, Moorenweis 1992.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ Bavarian Organ Database, Version 5.
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '19.4 " N , 11 ° 4' 37.9" E