All Saints Church (Unterwittighausen)

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The All Saints Church in Unterwittighausen

The Roman Catholic Church of All Saints in Unterwittighausen , a district of Wittighausen in the Main-Tauber district , was built in 1739 according to Balthasar Neumann's plans .

history

In 1738 the great architect Balthasar Neumann, master builder of the Würzburg Residence and many other important buildings, created the plans for the new church. The reason for this was the dilapidated church “St. Kilian ”, which is said to have stood in the same place. The foundation stone was laid on June 16, 1739. However, it has not been proven whether Balthasar Neumann really was in Unterwittighausen and whether he created the plans himself. It is much more likely that the drafts were drawn by Baumann's employees based on Neumann's ideas and submitted to him for review. As in the other country churches designed by Neumann, he gave the Unterwittighauser Church a rather simple spatial shape: an extended nave with a semicircular arched opening to the retracted chancel. One of the characteristics of the church is the facade tower planned over three floors, which is rounded off with a "constricted onion helmet" . This protrudes at half the length of the side on the west side. Despite the great master builder, the building proved to be in danger of collapsing after just a few decades. Around 1790 the choir and the vault of the central nave were renewed. However, the renovation was done with a flat ceiling. Today there are no more blueprints for the church. The reason for this is the air raid on Würzburg , which destroyed a large part of Balthasar Neumann's plans in March 1945. The church is consecrated “All Saints”, as the name suggests, to all saints. The patronage is celebrated on November 1st.

The All Saints Church belongs to the pastoral care unit Grünsfeld-Wittighausen, which is assigned to the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

Renovations

According to records, the church was first renovated in 1888. About 15 years later, an extension was added to the choir room on the southeast side, as the sacristy behind the main altar at that time was abandoned. The advantage here was that from this point on it is also directly accessible from the outside. In 1934 the church corridor was covered with stone slabs. The gallery was enlarged three years earlier. Just two years later, the church received a new paint job and a renovation inside. The costs for the community amounted to 2,800 Reichsmarks. Just two years later, the Wittighaus faith community received warm air heating for the cold winters. In 1953 the parish invested 20,000 DM in immediate renovation. After that, two major renovations have taken place to this day. These ran from 1978 to 1980 and from 2002 to 2003. In the latter, the interior of the church was given a refresh: the ceiling paintings were restored, the walls were painted, a more modern loudspeaker system and warm air heating were installed. The pictures and figures as well as the windows were also renovated.

Interior

The Würzburg court sculptor Johann Peter Wagner , who was known as a master of rococo-plastic and early classicism , was responsible for the interior of the baroque church . He created the baroque grand altar and the pulpit.

The high altar picture lives up to the name of the church. It shows the totality of all saints. Above this is a relief portrait with the coronation of the Virgin Mary . The high altar itself has a baroque column structure. Around the altar are four figures of local saints: In the front left is Saint Aquilin from Würzburg, who is depicted with a knife in his neck.

Behind it is the holy Urban . He was Pope from 222 to 230 and is considered the patron saint of winemakers. On the right in front is St. John Nepomuk . Behind this the Franconian Apostle Kilian is shown. He worked as Bishop of Würzburg around 685 and was murdered together with his two companions.

The right side altar shows the death of St. Sebastian . The crucifixion scene is shown on the left side altar. Both paintings are from the artist Georg Christan Urlaub.

The ceiling painting from 1965 shows the finding of the cross by Saint Helena. It was drawn by the Bronold company and is a copy of the painting of the same name by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Tiepolo was also modeled on the portrait hanging on the left side wall, which shows the Adoration of the Magi.

A sculpture of Maria Immaculata , the Immaculate Mary, is on the left side of the gallery. On the ground floor below is a Way of the Cross, created by the painter Peter Geist in 1861.

There are four bells in the bell tower. Three are from 1950, dedicated to Mary with the child, St. Joseph and a crucifixion group with Mary and John. The older one was cast in 1928 and is dedicated to all saints.

Today's organ was built in 1973 by the Heissler company from Markelsheim. When the interior renovation took place in 2002/2003, it was overhauled. It has a pedal unit and two manuals, as well as 15 sounding registers. The organ pipes made of wood and tin-lead ligatures are “packed”.

Web links

Commons : Allerheiligenkirche (Unterwittighausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Wittighausen.de: The Church of All Saints in Unterwittighausen . Online at www.wittighausen.de. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
  2. ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 44.3 "  N , 9 ° 50 ′ 15.5"  E