To the Lord on the Wies
The Roman Catholic chapel (Zum) Herrgott auf der Wies (also known as Wieskapelle ) is located in a clearing in the main part of wood between Mettenbach and Oberröhrenbach in the area of the market town of Essenbach in the Lower Bavarian district of Landshut . The small Rococo - hall building was built in 1754 and is a monument with the number D-2-74-128-34 the Bavarian State Conservation Office entered.
history
Legend has it that in 1745, the 60-year-old single seamstress Catharina Krenzinger from Mettenbach bought a portrait of Hergott with the depiction of the scourged Savior from a postman . This is reminiscent of the miracle of tears from 1730, to which the construction of the famous Wieskirche near Steingaden goes back. After keeping this in a bad room for three months , she had a carpenter from Mettenbach insert it into an oak tree on the way to Oberröhrenbach . The image is said to have worked numerous miracles in the following time . After only six years, a wooden chapel could be built from votive offerings in place of the wayside shrine .
The responsible Mettenbacher pastor Mathäus Falckh soon obtained permission from the bishop's office in Regensburg to build a stone chapel out of the pilgrimage victims . This plan was implemented in 1754. In the same year Pastor Falckh died, a memorial plaque at the entrance to the parish church reminds of him to this day .
Another part of the pilgrimage victims had already been paid out in the form of a weekly gift of 12 cruisers to the now impoverished originator of the pilgrimage, Catharina Krenzinger. Since Pastor Falckh had stopped this payment after six months in order to carry out necessary repairs to the parish church, Krenzinger complained to the ordinariate . First of all, the dean of Hofdorf in charge of the matter reassigned her to the weekly allowance. Nevertheless, Krenzinger's complaint about her pension reached the electoral nursing office in Rottenburg . This established that the pilgrimage chapel had been built without the consent of the electoral government. This resulted in a dispute between the Electorate of Bavaria and the Obermünster Abbey (which then incorporated the Mettenbach parish) over the protection of the church for the Wieskapelle, which lasted until 1794, when Obermünster was ultimately defeated.
In 1906 the badly rotten altarpiece of the Wieskapelle with the image of the scourged Savior was brought to the St. Vitus Church , where it led a largely unnoticed existence. Instead, a local farmer donated a statue of the Savior on the Scourge Column . This is a modern work by the sculptor Emanuel Basler the Elder. J. from Simbach am Inn . During two break-ins in 1973, the angel's heads and several votive tablets, mostly depicting cattle with the patron Leonhard , were stolen from the altar . During the total renovation of the Wies chapel in 1979, the original miraculous image was returned to its original place. The old statue and a depiction of the Rosary Madonna are now in the parish church of St. Dionysius .
description
The small, east-facing hall church with pilaster strips comprises a two-bay nave and a single-bay choir with a semicircular apse . An eight-sided ridge turret with an onion dome is placed on its apex . The window openings have a curved border; So it is typical of the time, so-called bass violin window. The eastern corners of the nave at the transition to the choir are rounded. The portal on the west side is distinguished by a blown gable .
The interior is spanned by a flat barrel vault with stitch caps , which rests on pilasters with multi-profiled capitals . The structure of the small altar rests on two round columns and two twisted columns. The main image is a wooden figure of the Savior on the scourge column, in the excerpt flanked by two volutes an image of the Mater Dolorosa . On the left of the round choir arch there is a figure of Maria Immaculata , on the right a copy of the Altötting image of grace.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The Wieskapelle . Online at www.pfarramt-essenbach.de ; accessed on December 14, 2018.
- ↑ a b Mettenbach - To the Lord God on the Wies . Online at kirchturm.net ; accessed on December 14, 2018.
- ^ A b Anton Eckardt (ed.): Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Landshut . Oldenbourg, Munich 1914, p. 159 ( digitized version ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '11 " N , 12 ° 15' 32.5" E