St. Johannes Baptist (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm)

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City parish church on the main square

St. John the Baptist is the Catholic town parish of Pfaffenhofen .

history

In 1388, almost the entire core of Pfaffenhofen was destroyed in a major city fire. As a replacement for the burned down church, construction of a three-aisled basilica began in 1393 and was completed around 1408. The construction work on the 77.71 m high tower with its octagonal superstructure was not completed until 1531. The church, built in Gothic style, had five bays .

Around 1670 St. Johannes Baptist was baroque . Among other things, the church received its stucco decoration at that time. Mathias Schmuzer and Johann Pöllandt were involved in the redesign ; The tendrils, pendants and rosettes from Schmuzer, the figures of the apostles and the statues Salvatur mundi and Regina coelorum from Pöllandt . The apostle figures were donated by various guilds and private individuals. Since no donor could be found for the unbelieving Thomas, the church administration commissioned this figure from Pöllandt itself. Joseph Großauer was the creator of the church's silver jewelry.

The new high altar was erected in 1672, followed by the St. Anna Altar in 1682. After a lightning strike in June 1768, the tower burned down completely and was rebuilt in the same year; all five bells had been destroyed in the accident. In 1769 the helmet was covered with sheet iron instead of shingles. In 1902 it received a copper roof, which was renewed in 1981.

After the middle of the 19th century, the high altar and the Marian altar were changed.

In 1913/14 the church was extended by two more bays, and in the early 1980s it was restored inside and out.

Furnishing

Stadtpfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist: interior

The font dates from the 14th century and was re-inaugurated in 1984 after being restored in 1983 due to damage.

The pulpit was donated by Mathias Sibenhärl, who died in 1693.

The choir stalls were donated by the Abbot of Scheyern in 1779 . It is kept in the rococo style.

Altars

The high altar was created in 1672 by Johann Pader ; the carpentry work was done by Marx Schinagl, the barrel work by Caspar Amordt. The main painting shows John the Baptist pointing to the Lamb of God. The picture was painted by Johann Kaspar in 1857 and redesigned by MP Weingartner in 1958. Above it is a painting with the beheading of John from 1672 by Anton Wurm . The Munich architect Anton Bachmann created the design for the tabernacle on the high altar ; the work was carried out in the course of the expansion of the church in 1915. The high altar bears figures of the saints St. Florian, St. Ulrich, St. Andreas and St. Johannes Evangelist.

The Corpus Christi altar comes from Andreas Wolff ; it was created in 1680. The St. Anna Altar was donated by Wilhelm Baumann in 1682. His main painting shows Mary holding her mother Anna's hand under floating angels.

The Sebastian altar was created by Simon Fähn from Pfaffenhofen in 1644 .

The Marien Altar was created in 1858 by Balthasar Kraft .

The cross altar with Christ on the cross and Our Lady of Sorrows stood at the beginning of the choir until 1833 and was then moved. It is equipped with a rococo shrine of St. Felix, which was probably transferred from the hospital to the parish church in 1802. In 1904 it was supplemented by a newly carved figure of John.

The coats of arms of the brewer Wilhelm Baumann and the year 1682 can be seen on the St. Anna altar.

organ

organ

Today's organ dates from 1976 and was made by Hubert Sandtner . It has 40 registers on three manuals and around 2,800 organ pipes . The disposition is:

I Rückpositiv
Reed flute 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
Sif flute 1'
Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Dulcian 16 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II major work
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Night horn 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cornet 8th'
Trumpet 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
III breastwork (swellable)
Wooden dacked 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cimbel II 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Rankett 16 ′
Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
Principal 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 8th'
Flauto 8th'
Chorale flute 4 ′
Rauschpfeife IV 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Clairon 4 ′

The church also has a positive choir from the 17th century, which the congregation acquired in 1975.

Others

Two silver busts of Saints Joachim and Anna are works by Joseph Großauer and date from 1730. Großauer also created the silver statuettes of St. Sebastian and St. Rochus, which are in the church, as well as a monstrance.

A Franconian Madonna from the 15th century has been in the church since 1983.

A lecture cross in the church dates from the 17th century.

A Pietà from around 1420 and a Coronation of Mary, which were created around 1480, were taken from the Altenstadtkirche St. Andreas. They came to the parish church in 1900.

A plastic representation of the Entombment of Christ from around 1400 was acquired in 1984, as was a Tyrolean figure of St. John the Baptist from the early 17th century.

A statue of Judas Thaddäus presumably came from Johann Pöllandt, which once stood in a niche between the gallery and the choir gallery and changed its place around 1870.

Four terracotta reliefs with the motifs of the Mount of Olives , the carrying of the cross and the crowning of thorns from the 14th century were almost lost to the church in the 19th century: They had already been sold as "worthless" to an antique dealer when the mayor at the time, Ludwig Lechner, intervened and bought them back demanded.

A stone hereditary savior from around 1410 bears the coat of arms of the Scheyer abbot Konrad IV von Muhr.

In 1915, Hans Hirsch created a Way of the Cross with 14 stations.

The church is decorated with a total of 155 putti heads.

The parish church of St. Johannes Baptist also owns a missal with baroque silver fittings and vestments from around 1700.

Lourdes grotto

Lourdes grotto

On the outside towards the main square there is access to a Lourdes grotto with a statue of Our Lady .

Epitaphs

In the parish church there are 29 gravestones and memorial stones from 1450 to 1928, most of them from the 17th and 18th centuries.

On the epitaph of Andreas Sparber, who died in 1518, from around 1530, Christ is deposed from the cross. Sparber founded a Thursday procession in 1510 that was still held in the 1920s. A tripartite epitaph from the year 1585 reminds of Egydius Murheimer or Murhamer. Above you can see Christ at the Last Judgment, below a resurrection of Christ and on the lowest relief the Murheimer / Murhamer family. Since 1927 a street name in Pfaffenhofen commemorates this family, which was known for their generous alms. Egydius Murheimer donated the "Sunday Alms" in 1569. Christoph von Chamer was a nurse in Pfaffenhofen from 1541 to 1572. He was the last representative of his tribe and died in 1584; his epitaph is also adorned with relief and inscription. Another epitaph is dedicated to the former mayor of Pfaffenhofen Hanß Mörtel and his first wife Catherina Schieslin. Mortar died in 1605 at the age of 89. Mathias Sibenhärl, who as parish vicar headed the second part of the baroque transformation of the church, is reminiscent of his coat of arms above the pulpit and his epitaph in the south aisle. Sibenhärl died in 1693.

literature

  • Otto Baumgärtner: City parish church St. Johannes Baptist Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm. 1985, ISBN 3-795-40461-4 .
  • Willy Hailer, Clemens Fehringer, Anton Ritzer: Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm - portrait of a Hallertau district town. Pages 14–15.
  • Catholic parish church of St. Johannes d. T. In: Jolanda Drexler-Herold, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Landkreis Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Ed.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.19 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-87490-570-5 , p. 154-158 .

Web links

Commons : Sankt Johannes der Täufer (Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ a b Otto Baumgärtner: Stadtpfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm , 1985, ISBN 3-795-40461-4
  3. ↑ Bavarian organ database online
  4. ^ Richard Fischer (ed.): Gravestones and memorial stones in the parish church of St. Johannes Baptist (=  Pfaffenhofener Stadtgeschichte (n) . Volume 17 ). Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm January 2016.

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 17 ″  E