Fortified church Möckenlohe

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Parish church of Möckenlohe

The fortified church Möckenlohe is a partially preserved fortified church , pilgrimage church and Catholic parish church of the Assumption in Möckenlohe , a part of the municipality of Adelschlag in the Eichstätt district in the Altmühltal nature park ( Bavaria ).

history

Möckenlohe was probably part of the basic equipment of the Eichstätt diocese, which was established in the 8th century . A first evidence comes from 908. 1179 confirmed Pope Alexander III. Ownership and rights of the Eichstätter cathedral chapter in Möckenlohe. According to local tradition, a choir tower church was built over a Roman temple towards the end of the 13th century ; In 1283 the cathedral chapter exchanged the church patronage from Bishop Reimboto for that of Unterstall . A church consecration took place in 1308. The castle researcher Helmut Rischert suspects a former fortified church here . Originally built on a raised platform, it still shows the remains of a medieval cemetery wall (cemetery fortifications) and, with the rectangular loopholes in the tower, indicates a refuge . Parts of the 4 meter high surrounding walls with their shooting openings were removed in 1968 when the cemetery was expanded. The nave was rebuilt in 1620 while retaining the older components, consecrated in 1624 and changed in the Baroque period in 1735 (dating on the ceiling painting). The vestibule in the north-west of the church will probably have been built at the same time. The last renovations took place in 1996 to 2000 (inside) and 2012 (outside; new roof).

Building description

The choir tower church faces east-west, which means that the ground floor of the tower forms the choir in the east. There you will find a baroque cross vault, while the nave has a flat roof. The vestibule has a late Gothic portal and two stone image fragments on the southeast corner. Remains of the fortified churchyard wall are still present on the southwest and south sides. The basement of the tower dates from the late 13th century and was raised in 1798; A lantern with a dome rises above the truncated brick helmet.

Furnishing

Interior with altar
Ceiling painting from 1735 by Joseph Dietrich

The church was stuccoed by Franz Xaver Horneis ("a pleasing early Roko work") and decorated with ceiling paintings by Joseph Dietrich in 1735; the main ceiling image shows the coronation of Mary in heaven by the Trinity. The four-column high altar and the pulpit (on the south wall of the nave) were built around 1700, the two-column side altars around 1650. The three altars were redesigned in 1735. The coronation of Mary ascended to heaven by the Trinity is represented as a group of figures on the high altar , accompanied by two angels, a "capable wooden group". Two trumpet angels sit on the extension beam. The original tabernacle is now on the north wall of the nave next to the side altar. The southern side altar shows a “popular” picture of St. Wendelin with a pilgrimage procession; in front of it are busts of St. Wendelin and St. James and a statue of the Sacred Heart. On the north side altar there is a Gothic figure of Mary as a pilgrimage miraculous image (early 14th century; with later baby Jesus; newly painted), a bust of St. Stephen and a bust of St. Isidore ; the altarpiece shows the stoning of St. Stephen. The interior of the church has other statues, such as a Johannes Nepomuk figure from 1735. A rosary Madonna from the middle of the 17th century hangs in front of the choir arch . The stucco gallery parapet is decorated with paintings by Joseph Dietrich of Jesus' Last Supper , the Good Shepherd and Christ with Mary Magdalene . The oak cheeks of the church stalls, carved with shell work, were made around 1750 and were only installed here after the secularization . In 1963 a new organ from Eichstätter organ builder Bittner came into the church, which was renovated in 2010. In the vestibule behind the original communion bench (around 1770) there is a massive, early Gothic font. In the vestibule, as in the church, there are some memorial plaques, particularly those of former pastors.

The limestone coat of arms of Bishop Johann Christoph von Westerstetten with the year 1615, under which the nave was rebuilt, can be seen on the facade of the rectory facing southeast .

See also

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Munich, Berlin 2006, p. 699.
  • Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (=  Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
  • Helmut Rischert: Inventory of the castles and palaces in the Eichstätt district . In: Collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt . 92/93, 1999/2000, pp. 281 f., 295, 300.
  • The Eichstätter area past and present. Eichstätt 1984, p. 245.
  • Felix Mader: The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office. Munich 1928, pp. 207-211.

Web links

Commons : Mariä Himmelfahrt (Möckenlohe)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Felix Mader: The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office. Munich 1928.
  2. ↑ a b c The Eichstätter room in the past and present. Eichstätt 1984, p. 245.
  3. ↑ a b c d Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. Munich, Berlin 2006, p. 699.
  4. ↑ a b Entry on the Möckenlohe cemetery fortification in the private database “Alle Burgen”.
  5. ↑ a b c Helmut Rischert: Inventory of the castles and palaces in the Eichstätt district . In: Collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt . 92/93, 1999/2000.
  6. ^ Möckenlohe in Upper Bavaria. ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) "br.de"
  7. ↑ a b Church newspaper diocese Eichstätt from 12./19. August 2012, p. 31.
  8. ↑ Eichstätter Kurier of September 13, 1996
  9. ↑ Eichstätter Kurier of March 15, 2000
  10. ↑ Church newspaper diocese Eichstätt from May 16, 2010

Coordinates: 48 ° 49 '20.2 "  N , 11 ° 13' 34.1"  E