St. Stephan (Friedberg)
St. Stephan is a baroque church in Friedberg in Bavaria . The church was built in 1698.
history
The now existing church of St. Stephan was built during the Friedberg boom after the Thirty Years' War , when the town flourished again due to the flourishing watchmaking trade after the almost complete destruction of the war. In the years after the Peace of Westphalia , the old St. Stephen's Church, probably built in the 9th century, still served as a place of worship. On December 2, 1444, a leper church outside the city gates is mentioned for the first time. After the old church was demolished in 1696, construction of St. Stephen began the following year and was completed again a year later. One of the founders was the city preacher Johann Jakob Rottmayr.
When the church was rebuilt, there was no longer a tower, a high ridge turret was placed on the west side .
The surrounding cemetery was called the poor cemetery, in which the executed people were buried in one corner . But many important craftsmen and artists also found their final resting place here, such as the sculptor Bartholomäus Öberl , the painter Johann Kaspar Menrad , the goldsmith Gertrud Mosmayr and the watchmaker Maria Strixner.
Building description
The church is a flat-roofed hall building with a retracted, semicircular east choir under a barrel cap . The building is surrounded by a wall ring that delimited the original cemetery. The roof turret above the west gable has a pilaster strip, structured, polygonal structure on a square base. The western extension is a two-storey sacristan's house, the eastern one a single-storey sacristy . The portal in the south is formed with Doric pilasters and straight entablature.
Furnishing
The interior of the church was given a stucco ceiling in the Rococo style . Johann Schmuzer , a student at the Wessobrunn school , is a possible plasterer . The frescoes show the hand of Johann Kaspar Menrad.
Early visitors left red chalk inscriptions on the two rear columns.
In keeping with the style of the time, the high altar is painted black. To the side of the altar painting by Johann Rieger are two pilasters, each with a column equipped with an angel figure . The original two side altars were removed in 1993/94. The altar leaves can be found today in St. Jakob .
To the right of the high altar is a sculpture of St. Francis, on the left one of St. Antony. On the sides of the entrance to the sacristy, there is a figure of Our Lady of the Friedberg carver Friedolin Mayer on the left and a Jesus resting on the right. This sculpture comes either from Bartholomäus Öberl or from his son Johann Caspar and is dated to 1735.
Small baroque sculptures of the twelve apostles can be found on the choir walls .
A crucifix with a Mater dolorosa by the Friedberg artist Johann Helgemayr from the first half of the 18th century is attached to the outer north wall .
Web links
- Stephanskirche at friedberg.de
- Notes on the church on the website of the parish of St. Jakob Friedberg Memento from April 13, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hubert Raab: Friedberg experience: [with all parts of the city] . Kulturverlag Holzheu, Mering 2010, ISBN 978-3-938330-10-4 .
- ↑ a b Stadt Friedberg (Ed.): Stadtbuch Friedberg . tape 2 . Friedberg 1991, ISBN 3-9802818-0-9 .
- ^ Homepage of the city of Friedberg in Bavaria. City of Friedberg, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Friedberg List of Monuments. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, April 14, 2018, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '2.5 " N , 10 ° 58' 55" E