Mater Dolorosa cemetery church (Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate)

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Mater Dolorosa cemetery church (Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate)
Altar of the cemetery church in Eschenbach

The listed cemetery church Mater Dolorosa is a Catholic church in Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate .

history

At the end of the 16th century, the cemetery was moved from the churchyard of St. Laurentius to its current location; at that time they began to build a cemetery church. The construction was not completed until 1627 after the re-Catholicization of the Upper Palatinate. Originally the church was consecrated to John the Baptist , but was consecrated to the painful Mother of God at an unknown time .

Building description

The church is a central building with a hipped roof and three-sided closure, in 1928/29 a roof turret with a built-in bell was added. The church was built in late Gothic style with stunted tracery of the windows and buttresses . In 1812 the church was so dilapidated that the demolition of the church was ordered in connection with the secularization . Pastor Wittmann saved the building by demolishing the choir arch in 1828 .

Way of the Cross on the Friedhofsweg of Eschenbach

Furnishing

The altarpiece with the painful Mother of God was probably made around 1800 and was redesigned in 1851. Two plaques in the church commemorate those who died in the Second World War . In 1962 the epitaphs of the castle keeper Hans Brandner and his wife from the middle of the 16th century were moved to the church. Other gravestones relate to Dietrich Kraus, Landschreiber zu Eschenbach, and Haans Stern. On the outside of the church there is a memorial stone for the pharmacist Thomas Schedl († 1860) and his wife Anna († 1886), both benefactors of the parish church and the poor of Eschenbach. Outside the church, a medieval sandstone cross is built into the cemetery wall.

The way of the cross along the cemetery path leading to the church consists of 14 iron panels in ogival fields on granite plinths. It was donated by Karl Scherm in 1841 and set up in 1849.

literature

  • Churches of the city of Eschenbach. Small Art Guide series (Art Guide No. 1881). Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1991, p. 17.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments in Eschenbach idOPf.

Web links

Commons : Cemetery Church Mater Dolorosa (Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Kreuzweg (Eschenbach in der Oberpfalz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 12.7 "  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 18.7"  E