St. Martin (Kirchdorf an der Amper)

St. Martin in Kirchdorf an der Amper

Interior view

St. Martin is the name of a roman catholic parrish church of Kirchdorf an der Amper, a municipy in Upper Bavaria, Freising. The church is a listed building and is included in the list of architectural monuments in Kirchdorf an der Amper under No. D-1-78-136-2. The parish belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.

Description

The baroque wall pillar church was built between 1706 and 1708. It consists of a five bay nave, a semicircular choir apse on the east side, and a two-story sacristy on the south wall of the choir. The choir flanking tower with a Welscher dome on the north wall of the choir was only added between 1775 and 1779. The bell frames with four bells and the tower clock are built into its upper floors, which are divided by pilasters.

The interior is spanned by a barrel vault, which was decorated with neo-baroque ceiling paintings in 1921. The high altar, erected in 1783, features a depiction of Saint Martin of Tours flanked by sculptures of the archangels Michael and Raphael.

Organ

The organ was built in 1886 as Opus 192 by Franz Borgias Maerz. It has 12 stops on two manuals and pedal. The disposition reads ^{[1] [2]}

I Manual (C–f^3)		II Manual (C–f^3)		Pedal (C–d^1)
Stop	Pitch Length	Stop	Pitch Length	Stop	Pitch Length
Bourdon	16′	Salicional	8′	Subbaß	16′
Principal	8′	Lieblich Gedeckt	8′	Octavbaß	8′
Tibia	8′	Fugara	4′	Violonbaß	8′
Gamba	8′
Octav	4′
Mixtur	2⅔′

• Coupling: II/I, I/P, II/P
• Guide: Tutti
• Note: Conical action, mechanical key and stop action, free-standing console

Literature

• Georg Dehio, Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bayern IV, München und Oberbayern. Deutscher Kunstverlag. 2006. p. 578.

External links

• St. Martin Kirchdorf on the website of the Allershausen Parish Association

References

1. "Organ Database Bavaria". Orgeldatenbank Bayern v5 (2009). Society for Bavarian Music History (Gesellschaft für Bayerische Musikgeschichte). Retrieved 28 July 2025.
2. "Organ in the church St. Martin in Kirchdorf an der Amper". Organ Index. Retrieved 28 July 2025. Information about the organ

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