St. Servatius, Architectural heritage church in Schleching, Germany.
St. Servatius is a church in Schleching located on a hilltop and displays traditional Bavarian ecclesiastical architecture. The interior features decorative altarpieces and stained glass windows.
The nave may date from the late 13th century, and the recessed choir with its net vault was added around 1450. The wall paintings in the choir were made between 1508 and 1513 and were painted over in 1597; the nave frescoes, attributed to the circle of Conrad Laib, date from around 1450. The Baroque fittings were removed between 1943 and 1954, and the church was renovated from 1993.
The church stands on the Streichen, a spur above the Tiroler Achen valley, not in the village itself; it is reached by an old pack-horse trail near a former castle site of the Kraiburg-Ortenburg counts. Its name comes from Saint Servatius, whose carved figure stands in a small box altar on the north wall of the chancel arch, with wings painted around 1410.
The church is located at Streichen 2 in Schleching and is easily visible from outside. Visitors should remember this is an active place of worship and behave respectfully.
The high altar is dated 1524: it was replaced by a Baroque altar in 1667, which later went to St. Rupert and Martin in Söllhuben, and the original was reinstalled in 1954. Its shrine holds carved figures of Saints Dionysius, Servatius and Wolfgang with their attributes.
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