St. Valentin and St. Martin (Gundelshausen, Schweitenkirchen)

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Filial church of St. Valentin and St. Martin
South portal

The Roman Catholic branch church St. Valentin and St. Martin in Gundelshausen , a district of Schweitenkirchen in the Upper Bavarian district of Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , is a late Romanesque brick building from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century, which has largely been preserved in its original condition. The church, which still has Romanesque architectural decorations on its exterior, is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

architecture

Exterior construction

The church is a modest hall with a retracted, semicircular closed apse . A polygonal roof turret rises above the east gable , which is covered with a pointed helmet. The east side of the nave has two narrow, high round arched panels on both sides. The unusually high apse, covered by a semi-dome, extends to the gable of the nave. On the south side of the nave, an unadorned, arched step portal opens to the interior. The large arched windows in the nave and in the choir were broken through in the Baroque period .

inner space

The small nave has a length of 7.60 meters and a width of 5.10 meters, the wall thickness is over one meter. Flat ceilings have been drawn into the choir and the nave. The north and south walls of the nave are set back at a height of about four meters, which - like the slits of light broken through above - could be an indication that the church was originally two-story and perhaps had a secular upper floor .

Architectural jewelry

Above the portal, a rectangular box blend is cut in the entire length of the nave, the top of a round arch fries and below of one, interrupted by small light slits German band is framed. The arches of the blend arcades rest on stepped consoles , the arch fields are decorated with ornamental and figurative red paintings, which were uncovered again during the restoration between 1973 and 1976 and in some cases supplemented. Checkerboard patterns, a wheel, a cross and other instruments of suffering , lions and animal symbols can be seen on the paintings .

The apse is divided in the lower area by five blind arches, which rest on half-columns and in the middle of which a small Romanesque window has been preserved. Two rows of circulating German ribbons divide the upper area into three fields. Frightened faces are painted on the stones of the frieze.

  • South facade with glare field and arched frieze

  • Apse, blind arches with Romanesque window (below), German bands (above)

Furnishing

  • The wooden west gallery may date from the 15th century.
  • The altar with the group of figures of St. Martin with a beggar was made in 1665. The assistant figures , St. Lawrence and St. Korbinian , date from the early 16th century.
  • A late Gothic crucifix hangs on the south wall of the nave .

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 , pp. 387–388.
  • Jolanda Drexler-Herold, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.19 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87490-570-5 , p. 298 .
  • Gottfried Weber: The Romanesque in Upper Bavaria. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1990, ISBN 3-8112-0703-2 , pp. 348-350.

Web links

Commons : St. Valentin and St. Martin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Schweitenkirchen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 27.2 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 15.8"  E