To Our Lady of Sorrows (Linden)

Church of Our Lady of Sorrows

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Linden (Mary of the Seven Sorrows; St. Maria and Maternus) is a late Gothic church originally built around 1500 in the Linden district of the Dietramszell community in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district in Upper Bavaria .

Eastern fresco in the vestibule

history

The tower of the church is dated to the end of the 14th century, but goes back to an older building from the 14th century. The approach to the roof of the former nave can still be seen in the west. The nave was built around 1500, but rebuilt between 1629 and 1630 after it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War ; it was based on a plan by Melchior Höck . The church was renovated between 1998 and 2005.

Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, interior

construction

The former choir in the basement of the tower became a vestibule with the new building of the nave in the east. This has a ribbed vault . The church interior is divided by Gothic arches. The needle cap barrel bears a ceiling painting by Sebastian Hausinger from 1946.

High altar with Vespers picture

Furnishing

The vestibule has frescoes from around 1400 “in remarkable completeness”. They show the adoration of the Magi on the west wall, the wise and foolish virgins in the reveal, the death of the Virgin on the north wall, the Annunciation in the east, and in the reveal Window in the east St. Barbara and Katharina, on the south wall the adoration of Jesus and the presentation in the temple, above that the Annunciation to the shepherds, then the veil of Veronica The vault shows the four evangelists with their symbols. The interior of the nave dates from around 1630. In the high altar there is a carved Vesper image from shortly after 1500, which is made up of statues of St. Maternus and Augustine is flanked. The side altars show the adoration of the Magi and St. Augustine.

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 .
• Ernst Götz u. a. (Editor): Georg Dehio (founder): Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 3rd edition 2006, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, pp. 653–654, ISBN 978-3-422-03115-9 .

Web links

Commons : To the Sorrowful Mother of God (Linden)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photos of church furnishings, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dehio Munich and Upper Bavaria, p. 653.

Coordinates: 47 ° 53 ′ 27.6 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 20.4"  E