St. Ulrich (Wangen near Starnberg)

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St. Ulrich Church

The Catholic Kuratiekirche St. Ulrich in Wangen, a district of Starnberg in the Upper Bavarian district of the same name , is a late Baroque hall building that was built in the early 18th century on the site of much older predecessor churches. The church is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

history

Main altar and side altars

The village of Wangen is mentioned in writing for the first time in a document from Polling Monastery from 1010. The Wangen church is listed in the Konradinische Matrikel , the list of goods of the Diocese of Freising compiled in 1315/16 , as a branch of the parish Aufkirchen .

In 1736, today's church was rebuilt by the Wolfratshausen master mason Georg Lettner. Until 1920, St. Ulrich remained a subsidiary church of the pilgrimage church of the Assumption in Aufkirchen, after which Wangen became the branch office and in 1956 it became a curate .

Patronage

Although Wangen belonged to the diocese of Freising in the past, the church is consecrated to St. Ulrich , the Augsburg diocese patron . The great veneration of the Bishop of Augsburg is attributed to his role in the battle of the Lechfeld in 955 and his early canonization, which took place in 993, twenty years after his death. Ulrich's patronage suggests that the Wangen Church was founded in the first decades after this canonization.

architecture

Nave fresco Seven Refuge

On the south side of the nave is the bell tower built in 1908 by the Munich architect Franz Xaver Boemmel , which replaced the baroque roof turret originally built over the west facade . Like the former roof turret, today's tower is covered with an onion dome. The entrance previously located on the southwest side was moved to the west facade in 1926.

The single nave is divided into three axes , the retracted choir is closed in a semicircle. The choir and nave are covered by flattened needle cap barrels that rest on flat pilasters with simple, profiled capitals . Large arched windows illuminate the interior.

Ceiling paintings

The ceiling frescoes in the choir and nave were probably made by Benedikt Dersch from Wolfratshausen. The painting on the ceiling in the choir depicts the handing over of the rules of the order by St. Augustine to a monk, perhaps Norbert von Xanten , the founder of the Premonstratensian order . The nave fresco is dedicated to the seven refuges .

Furnishing

Left side altar
Right side altar, predella with the relief of the Entombment of Christ
  • The four-column high altar from 1740 frames a painting of the Instruction of Mary, which is attributed to the Munich court painter Balthasar Augustin Albrecht . The altar extract was redesigned around 1770 in the late Rococo style, the extract picture depicts the church patron, St. Ulrich.
  • The early baroque pages of the altarpieces originally came from the Heilig Kreuz church in Freiham in the Munich district of Aubing . The two figures on the left altar with the retables represent St. George and the Munich patron saint, St. Benno of Meissen . The two figures on the right altar, St. Nicholas and St. Odilia , were created shortly after 1500. The figures in the central niches of the two side altars, a baroque Madonna in a halo and an early Baroque seated figure of St. Ulrich from the second half of the 17th century, were placed in their current location in the 1950s. The figure of St. Ulrich was probably the central figure of the altar of the previous church. The predella of the right altar contains a relief depicting the Entombment of Christ. The carving is the most precious work of art in the church. It dates from around 1520 and is attributed to the workshop of the master von Rabenden .
  • From the construction of the church dates back to the baroque pulpit whose acoustic cover finial not get more.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03010-7 , p. 1245.
  • Gertrud Rank, Michael Schmid: A piece of heaven. Art historical insights into the Starnberg church landscape . Kulturverlag Starnberg, Starnberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-941167-03-2 , pp. 220-230.

Web links

Commons : Ortisei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Ulrich Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
  2. ↑ List of monuments for Starnberg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-88-139-124

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 40.8 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 11.2"  E