Pilgrimage Church of St. Sebald (Egling)

Church of St. Sebald

The Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Sebald is the second church building next to the parish church of St. Martin in Egling in the Upper Bavarian district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen . A former pilgrimage with veneration of St. Sebald , the patron saint of the church, is associated with it. It is located on the western outskirts of Egling directly below the Sebald leite .

history

Today's church was built on the site of a late Gothic chapel, which was first mentioned in a document from 1461. There are indications that this chapel had existed for decades at this point; its construction was possibly caused by the canonization of Sebaldus of Nuremberg in 1425.

In 1512, the chapel's importance increased when the Egling branch, which at that time belonged to the parish of Deining, donated a benefit to the two Eglingen branch churches of St. Martin and St. Sebald. In 1520 the parish of Deining was attached to the Schäftlarn monastery , which then looked after St. Sebald's monastery until it was dissolved as part of the secularization . Around 1512 a 43 cm high wooden figure of St. Sebald, which later became the miraculous image of the pilgrimage. After the baptismal name Sebald was repeatedly found in the area in the 16th century, the blooming of the pilgrimage site is assumed around 1600, when increasing pilgrimage activity is reported in neighboring places such as St. Nantwein in Wolfratshausen. The pilgrimage lasted over three centuries and was mainly practiced by the rural population in the vicinity.

The Sebaldus Chapel, as it is still called today, received its current appearance in the 17th century , although it has been a baroque church since the new building . The year of construction is not known, but there are indications that the construction fell during the term of office of Schäftlarn abbot Anian Mayr, which lasted from 1653 to 1680. A tower was dispensed with and none was built at a later date. After 1675 two sacristies with galleries above were added.

After the Schäftlarn Premonstratensian Monastery was abolished, the district judge of Wolfratshausen determined in 1804 that the church only held services twice a year, that it was "completely isolated in the field" and that it had no cemetery. That is why he counted them among the “superfluous churches”. It was supposed to be dismantled and the roof was to be used for a “royal grain bin ”. This did not happen, however, as several personalities campaigned for the preservation, also because of the saint, who "is nowhere publicly venerated in Bavaria as zu Egling".

In 1948/49 the church was renovated on a large scale. The church interior was also redesigned a little. In 1971 the building was given a copper roof.

literature

• Georg Paula , Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.5 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-87490-573-X .
• Anton Bauer: St. Sebald in Egling near Wolfratshausen - On the history of the church and its former pilgrimage, in: Historischer Verein Oberbayern (Hrsg.): Oberbayerisches Archiv, 97th volume, Munich 1973.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bauer, in: Oberbayerisches Archiv, Volume 97, p. 467
2. ^ Bauer, in: Oberbayerisches Archiv, Volume 97, p. 476
3. ^ Bauer, in: Oberbayerisches Archiv, Volume 97, p. 471

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '23.2 "  N , 11 ° 30' 0.5"  E