St. Stephanus (Weihenstephan)

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Exterior view of the St. Stephen's branch church from the south

The Roman Catholic branch church St. Stephanus in Weihenstephan , a district of the municipality of Hohenthann in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut , is a late Gothic building from the second half of the 15th century, which was converted to Baroque style in the 17th and 18th centuries . According to the place name Weihenstephan , the church is consecrated to St. Stephen (memorial day: December 26th). The branch church of the parish St. Laurentius in Hohenthann is registered as a monument with the number D-2-74-141-41 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

description

Exterior construction

The east- facing hall church has a non-retracted choir with two yokes and ends in three sides of the octagon. This is united with the three-axle nave under a common gable roof . The exterior is structured by a circular arched frieze at the height of the window closures, which were also redesigned to be arched in the Baroque period. On the west side of the nave is an open vestibule with a curved copper roof . On the south side of the choir is a choir flank tower , which was provided with an octagonal superstructure and a baroque onion dome in 1681 by the Landshut master mason Adam Stadler . On the ground floor of the tower which is Sakristei housed on the first floor, a oratory with classical sill provided with a crest of the Weihenstephan noble family Etzdorf is provided and the year 1790th

Interior and equipment

While the baroque redesigned nave has a flat ceiling with a hollow , the choir has a late-Gothic ribbed vault with round keystones . The pear-rod-shaped ribs arise from round services , which outgrown weakly pronounced, beveled wall pillars halfway up and have profiled capitals . The furnishings are mostly neo-Gothic ; There are also late Gothic wooden figures of Saints Stephen, Laurentius and Cyriacus from around 1520, which were formerly housed in the Weihenstephan castle chapel . In the inner walls of the church there are epitaphs for members of the noble families from the 16th to 18th centuries who resided at Weihenstephan Castle .

organ

The organ was built by Willibald Siemann in 1911 . The pneumatic cone shop instrument with free-standing console comprises eight registers on a manual and pedal . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Gamba 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. Octav 4 ′
6th mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
7th Sub-bass 16 ′
8th. Bourdon bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / P, super octave coupling, sub octave coupling

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Hohenthann (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ^ A b c Anton Eckardt (Ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut. Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, p. 224f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Bavarian organ database online .

Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 41.1 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 52.3 ″  E