Johanneskirche (Kasendorf)
The Johanneskirche Kasendorf is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Kasendorf in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach in Bavaria .
The church is named after John the Baptist . There are also references to the veneration of Saint Kilian .
Several works in the furnishings come from the Brenck family of sculptors: the altar is a work by Johann Georg Brenck , the pulpit is attributed to Hans Georg Brenck .
In the choir is the sandstone tomb of Joachim Rauschner von Lindenberg († 1560), who is known as the last and most precious of his family. He is shown in heavy armor and with several weapons. There are three family coats of arms in a round-arched attachment, two more coats of arms are placed in the middle of the flat pilaster frame. Another tombstone is that of Anna Rauschner von Lindenberg († 1534). The gravestone of Pastor Johannes Wolfgang Erhardi with a laurel-wreathed medal portrait is attributed to the sculptor Elias Räntz .
literature
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Kulmbach . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, III. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1958. p. 61f.
- Karl Sitzmann : artist and craftsman in Eastern Franconia . Kulmbach 1957. p. 71ff.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 9.7 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 7.1 ″ E