Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary (Hohenpeißenberg)

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The pilgrimage church with priestly house
High Peissenberg with a double church

The pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary is a Catholic pilgrimage church on the Hohen Peißenberg in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau . It belongs to the planned parish association Peiting-Hohenpeißenberg in the archdiocese of Munich and Freising. It is a double church, consisting of the older Gnadenkapelle and a later larger church annex. It is the destination of many pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising with supraregional importance.

The patronage of the church is celebrated on August 15th ( Assumption of Mary ).

history

After there was previously a wooden chapel at the foot of the mountain, the farmers who lived scattered around the mountain built a brick chapel on the mountain in 1514. At that time these farmers still belonged to Peiting . The location on the top of the mountain was probably chosen because it was more central to the residents. The ducal keeper of Schongau, Georg von Pienzenau, brought a wooden figure of Our Lady from the Schongau castle chapel into the chapel. This figure quickly gained the reputation of a miraculous image and a pilgrimage developed. In 1604, Duke Maximilian I transferred the pastoral care of pilgrims to the Rottenbuch monastery . The chapel soon became too small and Probst Georg Siesmayer had a second larger pilgrimage church with a tower and a priest's house built to the east from 1616 to 1619, creating a double church . The church extension was the first of the Renaissance in the Pfaffenwinkel.

The painting of the Assumption of Mary in the high altar was created in 1717 by Matthias Pussjäger , a Rottenbuch painter who was based in Merano . The two side altars were built at the same time. The altarpieces of the Crucifixion and Resurrection by Elias Greuter d. Ä. were taken over from the original equipment. The western gallery parapet and the elegant pulpit date from the time of construction and show high-quality woodwork.

From 1747 to 1748 the Gnadenkapelle received its rococo furnishings, making it more splendid than the attached church building. The Wessobrunners Joseph Schmuzer and his son Franz Xaver Schmuzer took over the interior design and the stucco work , the fresco artist Matthäus Günther from the northeast slope of the Hohen Peißenberg took over the fresco painting , Franz Xaver Schmädl was responsible for the sculptural work . The large ceiling fresco in the Chapel of Mercy shows the handover of the pilgrimage site to the Rottenbuch monastery. Günther was an altar boy on the mountain, according to the Rottenbuch monastery dean P. Joachim Hoffmair († 1755).

Rottenbuch Abbey was dissolved in 1803 due to secularization in Bavaria . The pilgrimage tradition continues.

Towards the end of World War II , on April 28, 1945, an artillery shell hit the north wall of the church and tore a two-meter hole. All the windows of the pilgrimage church and the altar of the chapel of grace were damaged. The damage was repaired by 1948.

renovation

From 2006 to 2012, under the project management of the Weilheim State Building Authority, the Gnadenkapelle was completely renovated and its appearance from 1747 was restored. The heavily aged and deformed roof construction was renewed in order to protect the already deformed ceiling fresco from further damage. Inside the chapel, the original design on the walls and ceilings was exposed and supplemented.

On August 15, 2012, the church's new bells were consecrated, which rang for the first time on Sunday, October 21, 2012. The old bells were made of steel and came from the post-war period.

The original color of the Madonna of Mercy from the 15th century has been exposed. For the blessing of the Chapel of Mercy on October 21, 2012 by Abbot Johannes Eckert OSB , the figure was given a new pompous robe.

  • Altar with the figure of Our Lady in the Chapel of Mercy

  • Small ceiling fresco in the Chapel of Grace

organ

Gallery with organ in the large part of the church

In 2016, the organ manufacturer Vleugels from Hardheim built a new organ in the existing historical organ case from an unknown builder from the 18th century. The instrument was inaugurated on October 16, 2016 and has 20 stops (including two prints) on two manuals and a pedal . It also has a Zimbelstern ; the tremulant affects the entire work. A special feature is their key heating for both manuals.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Nasard (previously No. 6) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Larigot (previously No. 9) 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Spanish trumpet (B / D) 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
11. Copula 8th'
12. Quintatön 8th'
13. Forest flute 4 ′
14th Flageolet 2 ′
15th Chamois fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Cor anglais 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
17th Sub bass 16 ′
18th Violon bass 8th'
19th Bassettl 4 ′
20th bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, I / P, II / P
  • Secondary register : cymbal star, glockenspiel, nightingale, key heating for both manual keyboards

Varia

  • There are pilgrimage medals reproduced from old originals in different designs.

literature

  • Georg Dehio (welcomed), Ernst Götz u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 3rd edition 2006. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin, p. 487 f. ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 .
  • Hohenpeißenberg church leader. 2nd Edition. Design and printing: Karl Motz, Schongau.
  • Pilgrimage site Hohenpeißenberg. Text: Georg Jocher, pastoral consultant, photos: Rudolf Hochenauer and Hans Jürgen Stein. 3rd edition 2015, printed by Telezentrum Herzogsägmühle, without ISBN.
  • Georg Jocher: Hohenpeissenberg Gnadenberg. The story of the pilgrimage, from approx. 1984, total production: EOS St. Ottilien.
  • Jakob Mois : The pilgrimage to Our Lady on the Hohenpeissenberg. In: Historischer Verein von Oberbayern (Ed.): Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History , Munich 1949, pp. 1-83, ISSN  0932-0946

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Hohenleithner: Small local history of Hohenpeissenberg , print: Hans Eiband, Hohenpeißenberg 1954, p. 2 f.
  2. ^ Hubert Assum, Max Biller: Ortportrait. In: Max Biller: Hohenpeißenberger Heimatlexikon. P. 434 f.
  3. ↑ Georg Jocher: The high Peißenberg - a pilgrimage mountain. In: Max Biller: Hohenpeißenberger Heimatlexikon. P. 264.
  4. ↑ Irma Kustatscher-Pernter: The Merano painter Matthias Pussjäger (= publications of the University of Innsbruck vol. 113). Innsbruck 1978. p. 28
  5. ^ Franz Hohenleithner: Small local history of Hohenpeissenberg , print: Hans Eiband, Hohenpeißenberg 1954, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Hans Rohrmann: The pilgrimage church on the Hohen Peißenberg - for the restoration of the Gnadenkapelle . In: Lech-Isar-Land. Yearbook 2009/2010, p. 255.
  7. ↑ Münchner Kirchenzeitung from August 26, 2012.
  8. ↑ Kreisbote from August 22, 2012.
  9. ↑ Press office of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, October 17th, 2012, http://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/Page006352_24256.aspx  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.erzbistum-muenchen.de  
  10. ↑ to the organ and to the disposition , in each case on the website of the organ building company.

Web links

Commons : Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 3 "  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 46"  E