Johannes Beheading (Lauter)
The Roman Catholic Church John beheading is located in Lauterbrunnen , a district of in Lower Franconia nearby town Burkardroth . Their naming refers to the beheading of St. John the Baptist .
The church is one of the architectural monuments of Burkardroth and is registered under the number D-6-72-117-37 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
Until the first Katzenbach church was built in 1714, Lauter and Katzenbach belonged together to the Stralsbach parish . In Lauter, a prayer room with an organ was built, the function of which was replaced by a church in 1844. This was supplemented by a church tower in 1876 as part of a church expansion.
After lengthy planning over a period of 15 years, the current church of Johannes Beheading was rebuilt in 1974 , but the steeple of the old church was included in this. During the new building part of the old inventory including the altar was destroyed; however, some saints were saved by the local teacher Rudolf Schubert. The architect of the new building was the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Skull . In this context, the new building received a triangular roof and triangular church windows, which were named "skull corners" after their architect.
In 1989/90 a new organ and three new bells were installed in the church.
architecture
The exterior and interior of the hall church is essentially characterized by the triangular shapes of the "skull corners": on the outside it seems as if three chapels are attached to each of the long sides; Inside, a three-aisled system is cited by this type of construction . The wall surfaces in the interior are kept in white and a soft yellow ( choir room and wall behind the "Smiling Madonna"). There are also gray ("skull corners") and lavender-colored (pillars) accents and the use of exposed concrete.
Furnishing
The smiling Madonna
The exact origins of the sandstone sculpture of the "Smiling Madonna" are in the dark. The first tradition known from Poppenroth Pastor Georg Bleymann from 1914 says that individual parts of the sculpture were found on the connecting path between Stralsbach and Frauenroth (torso) and in a field (head of the baby Jesus).
The sculpture was created in the 13th century in the Burgundian style, possibly on behalf of Beatrix von Courtenay , the founder of the Frauenroth monastery, and fell victim to the sacking of the monastery during the Thirty Years War .
Choir room
Like the stone canopy for the “Smiling Madonna”, the altar table , the tabernacle and the ambo - all made of stone and kept simple - come from the Bergtheim sculptor Karl Hornung.
The monumental wooden cross , corresponding in its simplicity to the rest of the furnishings, was added later and comes from Günter Metz from Langenleiten .
Holy figures
The two linden wood sculptures that have been placed on the left in the church come from the former altar and depict St. Nicholas and St. Blaise .
To the right of the altar there is a wooden sculpture of the church patron John the Baptist, donated by Erwin Manger.
More pieces of equipment
Two figures of Mary stand to the right and left of the portal: one bears the inscription “Dear Lady of the Sacred Heart” and acts as a carrying Madonna for processions; the other can be dated to the Rococo period.
The Stations of the Cross are not, as has long been assumed, reverse glass painting , but filigree painting on paper, presumably carried out by a porcelain painter.
The windows come from the hand of the Hammelburg artist Robert Höfling.
Peal
Since 1989 the church has had a three-part major peal in the notes h ′, dis ″ and fís ″.
literature
(in chronological order)
- Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , p. 573.
- Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , pp. 80-81.
Web links
- Church of the Beheading of John in Lauter . In: Website of the market Burkardroth
- The smiling Madonna von Lauter . In: Website of the market Burkardroth
- Alfred Saam: The bells of the branch church "Johannes Beheading" in Lauter (PDF)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 38.5 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 26.6" E