St. Wolfgang (Thaining)
The Catholic branch church St. Wolfgang in Thaining , a community in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech , is a former votive and pilgrimage church that was built in 1449/50. It is located in the southern part of the village, on the eastern edge of a square-like Angers . The church is one of the protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.
history
The Thainingen farmer Hans Scheffler had the church built in 1449 and 1450 after a vow that was connected with his pilgrimage to St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut in 1430. On the journey home to Thaining he fell seriously ill, but got well again as a result of the vow to build a votive church in honor of St. Wolfgang .
The pilgrimage, which began around 1500, experienced its greatest boom in the 17th and 18th centuries. After the Thirty Years' War , the church was extended by the western octagonal nave end and given a completely new interior. The redesign of the church dragged on until 1710. The gallery and the coffered ceiling were also drawn in.
Around 1825/30 the southern main entrance was walled up and converted into a dungeon niche. Thorough renovations took place inside in 1952/53 and outside from 1979 to 1981.
Building description
The late Gothic church is a low hall building with a high pitched roof , which has the oldest roof structure in the district. The gable roof tower, richly structured with pinnacles and tracery friezes, is built on the northeast corner of the nave . The two-bay choir with a three-eighth closure has stepped buttresses. About three meters west of the tower is the little prominent sign . The baroque sacristy is built on to the southeast opposite the tower ; previously the tiny room on the tower ground floor served as the sacristy. The narrow stairway to the gallery is built into the west wall of the nave.
The nave, which is only five eighths of the width on the inside, is covered with a simple wooden field ceiling , which is decorated with small rosettes . The choir has a groin vault . The walls of the nave are not structured.
Furnishing
The folk, uniformly looking early and high baroque furnishings with Mannerist influences are of high quality and were executed by important artists from the southwest of the Electorate of Bavaria .
The high altar, built in 1664, with two twisted columns entwined with vine leaves and side canopy consoles shows the church's patron saint, St. Wolfgang, flanked by John the Baptist and St. Leonhard , outside the columns to the left are the apostle Peter and above them St. Apollonia , right the apostle Paul and above the holy Afra . In the excerpt is the half- length figure of God the Father with the dove of the Holy Spirit, and above it the Archangel Michael . The painting on the Altarmensa shows Saint Wolfgang on Lake Wolfgang (in the background Mondsee Abbey ). The sculptures are by Hans Degler's son David Degler.
The choir stalls from around 1710 encircle the entire end of the choir. The 22 seats are separated by turned columns and crowned by tail gables and putti that carry instruments of suffering . Above the choir stalls on the wall there are two large angels with the attributes of the church patron, ax and church, made by Johann Luidl .
Under the choir arch is the cross altar from around 1700/10, the crucifix of which is a late Gothic work from the early 16th century. The figures of Mater Dolorosa , Johannes and Maria Magdalena as well as the blood-collecting putti were made by the Landsberg sculptor Lorenz Luidl . In the cafeteria, a holy grave backdrop is built between six tiny twisted columns . This is also a work by Lorenz Luidl. The cafeteria is surrounded by a knee bench .
The side altars were made in 1675 by Ambrosius Degler, the grandson of Hans and son of David Degler. Their structure is based largely on the high altar. In the reredos of the left altar is Saint Ottilia between Saint Catherine and Saint Barbara , outside are Saint Veronica and Catherine of Siena , in the excerpt a relief depicts the Assumption of Mary. In the reredos of the right altar is Saint Stephen between the saint Vitus and St. Christopher are depicted, the church fathers Augustine and Pope Silvester I are on the outside , a relief depicts the coronation of Mary in the excerpt. The canteen pictures painted around 1675 show a Vespers picture on the left and St. Benedict as the patron saint of the happy hour of death on the right .
The pulpit , which dates from 1681, was made of different types of wood and has been unmounted since 1952/53. The basket is structured by columns and pilasters and is equipped with the four evangelist figures by Lorenz Luidl in shell niches. The choir arch is decorated with a cartouche with angels, which was probably created around 1670/80 by Lorenz Luidl or David Degler.
On the south wall there are two double panel paintings with the history of the origins of the church from 1657, which are underlaid with verses by the pastor David Guett and show the village with its houses and residents in great detail. They were made by the sacristan and tailor Matthias Augustin.
Other saints from the Landsberger Luidl workshop located at the choir and nave walls, they provide in the choir the holy Nicholas and St. Erasmus and in the nave of the holy Ulrich and the church father Ambrose and the holy Martin and St. Narcissus . The in The floor plan of the trapezoidal wooden gallery is supported by turned columns with carved, Corinthian- inspired capitals . The segment arch fields of the parapet are also structured by columns.
Cross altar
Holy grave in the cross altar cafeteria
Double panel from 1657 on the history of the church
Choir stalls
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. 1160.
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 , p. 758-762 .
- Michael Meier: The art and cultural monuments in the Munich region - western perimeter. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1977, pp. 150–151.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The branch church of St. Wolfgang Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ List of monuments for Thaining (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-1-81-142-2 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ 11.6 " N , 10 ° 57 ′ 30.4" E