Pilgrimage Church of St. Salvator (Rimsting)
.jpg) Exterior view of the pilgrimage church of St. Salvator in Rimsting (Parish Prien) from the cemetery (from the east). In the foreground the state road Prien-Frasdorf, which runs in a 90-degree curve directly past the building wall. |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| place | Rimsting , Germany |
| diocese | Archdiocese of Munich and Freising |
| Patronage | celebrated on White Sunday |
| Building history | |
| start of building | 15th century |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | 1472 |
| Architectural style | Gothic |
| Furnishing style | Baroque |
| Construction type | single-nave hall church |
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Branch church of the parish Prien am Chiemsee |
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| 47 ° 51 '13.7 " N , 12 ° 19' 54.1" E | |
The pilgrimage church of St. Salvator in the Rimstingen district of Sankt Salvator is on the road from Prien to Wildenwart .
It owes its creation to tradition according to a sacrilege of a host . A woman from Siggenham is said to have gone to communion in the parish church of Prien in an unworthy manner, but did not eat the host, but took it with her. After she felt repentance halfway home on the way home, she placed the host on the ground at the location of today's high altar , where it immediately sank into the ground. This was interpreted as a miracle , which led to the construction of a church.
Building history
The evidence of the first building goes back to the 12th century. For example, an “ecclesia sancti Salvatoris” appears in a tradition code of the Herrenchiemsee Abbey , which Peter v. According to Bomhard, that church is called. The current building was built in the 15th century and has typical features of a medieval host church . In 1472 the church was bought by the then bishop v. Chiemsee, Bernhard v. Kraiburg, consecrated. While the exterior still bears witness to this construction phase (saddle roof and late Romanesque tower), the interior was gradually redesigned and by and large received its shape in the 18th century.
Interior
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In the center of the church is the splendid early baroque high altar , created in the 17th century , in the middle of which is a carved group depicting the Coronation of Mary. Trinity is located. The carved group is flanked by the weather patron St. John and Paul (Roman city saints, not the apostles!). The top of the altar shows an image of St. Maria Magdalena also from the baroque period. In the place of the side altars removed in 1959 there are two statues from the 17th century: on the left the Sorrowful Mother of God, on the right the miraculous image of the church, Jesus Christ as the risen one, who nevertheless bears his wounds visibly.
Also noteworthy is a door wing in the tower portal with rich iron fittings. In the tower there is a valuable weather bell from the 17th century, which survived the turmoil of the wars thanks to the brave efforts of a Pinswang farmer.
Since the 1990s, a way of the cross leads through the Priental to the pilgrimage church, which was created by the Chiemgau artist Christine Stadler .
Pilgrimage
While the pilgrimage to St. Salvator flourished in the High Middle Ages , it decreased rapidly towards the end of the 18th century. However, it is not completely extinguished. To this day, pilgrims from the parishes of Halfing, Höslwang and Rimsting come year after year.
literature
- Peter von Bomhard, Karl Aß: pilgrimage church St. Salvator. In: The churches of the parish of Prien. Edited by Josef Preis, 1991.