Christ the King (Wolfsegg)
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The Roman Catholic parish church Christkönig (Wolfsegg) is located in the municipality of Wolfsegg in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg in Bavaria (Kirchstrasse 10).
history
The church was built at the insistence of Pastor Franz Bäumler von Duggendorf . In his letter to the Episcopal Ordinariate Regensburg , he justified this as follows with complaints about the existing St. Laurentius Castle Chapel (Wolfsegg) :
“ Wolfsegg owns a church that doesn't deserve the name church. It is more of a building site, jarred on the rock like the other houses, but also contains nothing that is suitable for devotion and is much too small for the current conditions. There is no sacristy, just behind the altar a room where you cannot move, no confessional, and no space for one, just an emergency stand where you get cramps if you sit in it for a while "
The foundation stone was laid by Pastor Jakob Meier on August 25, 1935. The church was consecrated by the Cathedral Chapter Anton Doeberl on November 21, 1936, and the consecration took place on July 11, 1937 by Bishop Michael Buchberger .
In 1957, the church tower and part of the nave had to be underpinned due to heavy subsidence. In 1965 an interior restoration took place in which the altar canteen was separated from the high altar structure and pulled forward. The last exterior renovation took place in 1988 (Pirzer construction company, Wolfsegg).
Wolfsegg has been a parish curate since July 1st, 1964 .
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Structure and equipment
The building is a choir tower church with a saddle and tent roof . It was built from rubble stones in a neo-Romanesque style . The interior of the nave is closed at the top with a flat coffered ceiling. The ensemble includes the morgue, a single-storey hipped roof building , as well as the cemetery and parish garden wall, also made of quarry stone. The two-storey, hipped roof-covered rectory of Wolfsegg is attached to the church building .
In the choir there is a large glass window depicting Christ as King (made by Schneider, Regensburg). Above the entrance door to the sacristy there is a figure of St. Petrus Canisius and opposite a statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk . On the left side altar is a life-size statue of the Mother of God with child. In the organ gallery is the figure of a noble lady with a squire. In the main nave are a Pietà and a statue of St. Nicholas made of wood. The stained glass windows behind the baptismal font represent creation and the Lamb of God .
The plans for the high altar and the pews all come from 1935 by the Regensburg architect Karl Wirthensohn; the construction work was carried out by the builder J. Küffner von Pielenhofen .
The church has a Marien and Josef bell (1937) and the large Christ the King bell (1962, bell foundry Hamm, Regensburg ).
On January 29, 2005, Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller solemnly consecrated the new altar.
literature
- Gustl Motyka with the collaboration of Franz Hummel and Alois Schaller: Burg und Dorf Wolfsegg. Knight, subject, white woman. (Pp. 100-101) . 2nd Edition. Michael Laßleben, Kallmünz 1991, ISBN 3-7847-1126-X .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 20.8 ″ N , 11 ° 58 ′ 27.8 ″ E