Our Lady (Gasseltshausen)

Our Lady

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The Catholic branch church of Our Lady is a Romanesque double chapel with a secular upper floor in Gasseltshausen , a district of Aiglsbach in the Lower Bavarian district of Kelheim . The building, incorrectly referred to as the Römerturm , is on the list of protected architectural monuments in Bavaria.

history

Since double chapels as well as facilities with a secular upper floor were always connected to castles or noble seats , this is also assumed for Gasseltshausen. However, the original function of these systems has not been precisely clarified.

The church in Gasseltshausen is one of the earliest brick buildings in Old Bavaria . However, there is no clear evidence for an exact chronological classification. The occasional use of decorative bricks in the outer walls can be compared to brick buildings in Lombardy , which were built in the first half of the 12th century.

In 1657 repairs were carried out on the gable floor . In 1760 the roof structure was renewed.

architecture

The two-storey, unplastered brick building consists of a square tower with a gable roof . On the east side, the apse adjoins in the form of a segment-arched bulge that extends to the eaves level.

The lower chapel, whose walls are up to 2.70 meters thick, is accessed via a small porch. It is covered by a barrel vault and opens to a flat apse recessed from the thick wall. Halfway up the west wall, a stairwell leads to the upper chapel.

On the west wall of the upper chapel, an earlier, now walled-up entrance can be seen, perhaps the entrance from a former castle. The wall thickness of the upper chapel is only 1.50 meters. The flat ceiling was drawn in during the baroque period. In the east wall, next to the apse, there are narrow stairwells that lead to the attic, which is taken as an indication of a second, profane upper floor. The outlets next to the apse in the upper chapel are walled up.

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  Lower chapel

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  Upper chapel

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  Gallery in the upper chapel, access to the attic

Madonna and key

Furnishing

Painting of the former predella of the lower chapel altar

• The altar of the lower chapel has two wing reliefs from the early 16th century. On the left relief the killing of the innocent children is shown and on the right relief the Archangel Michael . The painting of the original predella from around 1530 shows the handkerchief of Christ held by angels . The baroque relief on the altarpiece depicts God the Father .
• A wooden figure of a Madonna and Child is housed in a wall niche.
• The 41 cm long key in the niche next to the Madonna dates back to the Gothic period and probably belonged to the lower church door.
• The small baroque altar with twisted columns in the upper chapel is dated to the 17th century. The late Gothic wooden figure of the Madonna and Child in the middle of the altar is a work from around 1480/90.
• On the side of the altar there are two life-size carved figures on consoles, on the left Saint Sebastian from around 1640/50 and on the right Saint Christopher from around 1510/20.

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  Altar of the lower chapel

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  Altar of the upper chapel

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  Saint Sebastian

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  Saint Christopher

literature

• The art monuments of the administrative region of Lower Bavaria . VII. Part. Royal Ministry of the Interior (ed.), Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1982 (reprint).
• Georg Dehio , Ernst Gall : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria II: Lower Bavaria . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-422-03007-7 .
• Georg Dehio (edited by Michael Brix): Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria II - Lower Bavaria . 2nd revised and supplemented edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03122-7 , pp. 153–155.
• The "Römerturm" of Gasseltshausen near Mainburg in the Hallertau . Leaflet no year

Web links

Commons : Our Lady (Gasseltshausen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments for Aiglsbach (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-2-73-113-6

Coordinates: 48 ° 40 ′ 6 ″  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 17 ″  E