St. Veit (Fahrenzhausen)

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Filial church St. Veit in Fahrenzhausen

The Catholic branch church of St. Veit ( St. Vitus ) in Fahrenzhausen , Freising district , is a late Gothic hall building with an attached sacristy, recessed polygonal choir and west tower. It was built at the end of the 15th century and later changed to Baroque style. It has a tower with a baroque onion dome and is a protected architectural monument, which is recorded in the list of architectural monuments .

history

Baroque tower

The branch in Fahrenzhausen (parish Jarzt) was mentioned for the first time in the Konradin register of 1315 as "Warnoltshausen". Fahrenzhausen already had a cemetery back then. The chancel with its vault dates from the Gothic period. The nave was redesigned around 1600 and around 1726. The windows of the sanctuary were also enlarged.

An octagonal tower rises above the lower, unadorned part of the tower on the west side of the church, which is structured by yellow-painted pilaster strips , oval sound windows and fields and crowned by a perfectly shaped onion. At the end of the 17th century the interior of the church was refurbished in the Baroque style and at the beginning of the 18th century in the Rococo style.

The church was still consecrated to St. Martin in 1524 . Since 1560 at the latest, it has had St. Vitus as patron. But even later, St. Martin's Day was specially celebrated; the church bills contain collections not only on the Vitus Festival (June 15), but also on St. Martin's Day (November 11).

Fahrenzhausen with the Church of St. Veit is located in the Freising district. Until 1972 the community belonged to the district of Dachau , this earlier connection is still noticeable today, because the parish association of today goes beyond the district boundaries and includes not only Jarzt and the Kuratie Weng in the district of Freising, but also Haimhausen and Giebing in the district of Dachau.

Church behind cemetery wall with choir windows enlarged in Baroque style

Furnishing

You can not only see from the building itself that the church dates from different times, this is also true in the furnishings. From the outside you can see a late Gothic choir, the windows of which were enlarged in the Baroque period. The tower is also older than the crowning onion dome itself. Inside there is a similar difference. The flat old wooden ceiling and the chancel do not fit in perfectly with the baroque furnishings.

High altar

The high altar in the Gothic vaulted choir is from the Rococo and has a Madonna by Christian Jorhan the Elder as the central figure . On the left and right are the assistant figures of St. Joseph (with child in his arms) and St. Christopher (with staff and child on his shoulder).

Side altars

The baroque side altars are by Paul Hörndl; the left shows St. Sebastian on the torture tree in the center, accompanied by St. Rochus in pilgrim garb. The right side altar shows on its altar sheet St. Anne with the Holy Family. As an accompanying figure on the inside is St. Barbara (with chalice and tower).

Figures and ceiling paintings

On the walls of the chancel are the figures of two bishops; one depicts St. Ulrich von Augsburg, identified by the fish on the Bible. The other figure is St. Wolfgang, it is quite old and dates from around 1670.

On the walls of the main nave there is a pulpit cross and a figure of the Virgin, an Ignatius of Loyola and a John of God. Particularly vivid is a St. Vitus, namely a child who sits in the oil kettle under which the flames are blazing.

This nave has a wooden flat ceiling from the Renaissance. In the middle is a rectangular painting by Carl Kraft with ogival bulges. It also depicts the martyrdom of the patron saint of the church, St. Vitus, who preferred death in the boiling oil to denial of his faith.

organ

The organ gallery on which the new organ is located is a self- supporting wooden structure that protrudes slightly in the middle. On it stands an instrument that was built in 1994 by the organ building company Anton Staller from Grafing. It has two manuals , ten registers and 685 pipes. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
Covered 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C-g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Coupling flute 4 ′
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Covered bass 8th'

This organ replaced a smaller instrument from 1930 that could not be saved due to woodworm infestation and other technical defects.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Veit (Fahrenzhausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchen und Kapellen, Fahrenzhausen , accessed on January 12, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '4.5 "  N , 11 ° 33' 9.2"  E