St. Vitus (Neumarkt-Sankt Veit)

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Exterior view of the parish church of St. Vitus from the southeast

The Roman Catholic parish church St. Vitus (also called St. Veit ) in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit , a small town in the Upper Bavarian district of Mühldorf am Inn , is the former monastery church of the Benedictine monastery of Sankt Veit and sits enthroned as the town's landmark on the 459 meter high Vitusberg. The church is dedicated to St. Vitus (Memorial Day: June 15) and is registered as a monument with the number D-1-83-129-49 at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

history

The essentially late Gothic building was built in the second half of the 15th century over fragments of the Romanesque previous building. This late Gothic hall church was structurally altered and refurbished several times as a result of several monastery fires in the 16th to 18th centuries (1504, 1617, 1639, 1686 and 1708) as well as looting due to armed conflict in 1648 and 1706. The baroque redesign after the monastery fire in 1708 was particularly extensive. In the course of construction work on the monastery, the church was also renewed by the later Freising master mason, Dominik Gläsl . The church tower with onion dome was built later by the famous baroque master builder Johann Michael Fischer . To this day, numerous pieces of furniture from the Baroque period can be found in the presbytery in particular. The rest of the furnishings fell victim to a regotization of the hall church in the second half of the 19th century .

In 1802, the Sankt Veit monastery was one of the first in Bavaria to fall victim to secularization . The Benedictine monks were the first Bavarian abbey to offer their monastery to Minister Maximilian von Montgelas for abolition. From today's perspective, this can be described as a stroke of luck, as the monastery church was preserved and rededicated as the parish church for the city of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit.

description

The choir is dominated by the more than 13 meter high high altar made of stucco marble , which was created in 1739 by the Salzburg sculptor Jakob Mösl. The main picture was painted by Johann Nepomuk della Croce and shows the martyrdom of the church patron Vitus in a cauldron with boiling oil. The founding of the monastery is shown in the extract . The altar is flanked by gilded figures of Saints Rupert and Vitalis . In addition, there are six large murals in the presbytery, on which the life and suffering of St. Vitus is depicted, and the early baroque choir stalls , the elaborate design of which has since been significantly reduced.

The Anna or Lucius chapel is attached to the north of the choir . This contains a reliquary altar with the mortal body of the catacomb saint Lucius, who was transferred to St. Vitus in 1694 from the Calixtus catacomb in Rome .

organ

Organ in historical case by Christoph Egedacher the Elder Ä. (1639)

The organ of the parish church of St. Vitus is in a baroque case by Christoph Egedacher the Elder. Ä. from the year 1639. The organ work , initially consisting of a total of 20 registers on two manuals and pedal , was created in 1900 by the organ builder Franz Borgias Maerz from Munich and partially rebuilt in 1976 by Max Sax from Altmühldorf and expanded to 25 registers. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C-g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Willow pipe 8th'
3. Covered 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Swiss flute 4 ′
6th Fifth flute 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Octav 2 ′
8th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
9. Mixture V 1'
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C-g 3
11. Cane-covered 8th'
12. Dolce 8th'
13. Singing Doctave 4 ′
14th Quintadena 4 ′
15th Forest flute 2 ′
16. Minor fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Octave cymbal III  1 ⁄ 2 ′
18th Krummhorn 8th'
19th Rohrschalmei 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
20th Principal bass 16 ′
21st Sub-bass 16 ′
22nd Octave bass 8th'
23. Pommer 8th'
24. Chorale bass 4 ′
25th Silent trumpet 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P
  • Playing aids : a free combination, tutti, single tongue holder, trigger, crescendo, crescendo off

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o new from Sax 1976

Bells

In the tower of the parish church of St. Vitus there are five bells by the Munich bell founder Johann Matthias Langenegger from 1709. The inscriptions and coats of arms on the bells indicate that they were a gift from Duke Maximilian Philipp of Bavaria. During the Second World War , the five bells were withdrawn, but could be recognized after the war and were returned to their original location in 1948. The largest bell is the 1920 kilogram Vitus bell, which is only rung on special occasions. The smallest bell is no longer rung today.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Parish Association Neumarkt-St. Veit: Churches of the parish of St. Veit . Online at www.pfarrverband-neumarkt.de ; accessed on May 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Germany (Bavaria) - St. Veit Monastery Church . Online at orgbase.nl ; accessed on May 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ Bavarian organ database online
  4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk : Zwölfuhrluten from May 21, 2018 from Neumarkt-Sankt Veit . Online at www.br.de ; accessed on May 22, 2018.
  5. ↑ Neumarkt-St. Veit (MÜ) - Bells from St. Vitus . Online at www.youtube.com ; accessed on May 22, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '33.5 "  N , 12 ° 31' 0.8"  E