Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Ilgen)

Pilgrimage Church of Ilgen

Interior

The pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is a pilgrimage church in Ilgen, a district of the municipality of Steingaden in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau .

history

The distinctively at the national road 17 located baroque Saalkirche with extruded, three-sided closing chorus and a roof turret on the West Gable originated from 1670 to 1676 at the site of the 1564 Steingadener Abt Joachim Wiedemann built Pestkapelle. The builder was Johann Schmuzer from Wessobrunn , who also created the rich stucco . For Schmuzer, Ilgen was the first major church building he was responsible for.

The interior of the church was restored from 1939 to 1949 and 2008/09, the exterior was renovated in 1981/82 and 2008/09.

Furnishing

The miraculous image on the high altar is a late Gothic wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child from the 15th century, above it the Visitation of Mary as an altarpiece , painted by the monastery brother of Steingaden, Lukas Schwaiger , based on a painting by Rubens .

The altar painting on the right side altar is by Johann Georg Bergmüller from Augsburg .

The Steingaden abbot Hyazinth Gassner had two side chapels added in the course of the growing pilgrimage in 1735. The rococo stucco in the side chapels was made by Franz Xaver Schmuzer from Wessobrunn .

organ

The organ

The organ with 10 stops on a manual and pedal was built in 1723 by Augustin Simnacher (born January 27, 1688 in Irsingen , † October 24, 1757 in Brixen ) from Tussenhausen . It is still largely original. The disposition is:

Manual C – c 3 Coppel 8th' Portal 8th' Principal 4 ′ flute 4 ′ Octav 2 ′ Pointed flute 2 ′ mixture 1'

Pedal C-a Sub-bass 16 ′ Octave bass 8th' Floette 4 ′

• Pairing : M / P
• Comments: sliding drawer , mechanical game and stop action, game table embedded in a cupboard, baroque prospectus with lockable side panels

literature

• Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23 ). Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 .

Web links

Commons : Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Steingaden-Ilgen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Ilgen at www.steingaden.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer , Theodor Wohnhaas : Lexicon of southern German organ builders . Florian Noetzel Verlag, Heinrichshofen-Bücher, Wilhelmshaven 1994, ISBN 3-7959-0598-2 , p. 391-392 .
2. ↑ Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 12 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 18 ″  E