St. Cyriakus Church (Schwemmelsbach)
The Kuratiekirche St. Cyriakus is a church building in Schwemmelsbach in the district of Schweinfurt, Bavaria. There are documentary references to it from earlier times. They testify that the expansion of an existing church was carried out as early as the middle of the 15th century under pastor Eberhard von Grumbach. Its volute gable has towered over the Franconian village of Schwemmelsbach since the Baroque period .
In real time
The oldest substance of today's Curatiekirche St. Cyriakus is the typical Franconian Echterturm . On behalf of pastor Erhard von Lichtenstein, Prince-Bishop Julius Echter carried out the Counter-Reformation in Reichtal from 1592 . An important feature of this Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation was the renovation of church buildings, primarily the churches themselves.
In Schwemmelsbach one of the tower was brought into its current form. The choir room was set up in the basement. The nave was connected to the west with two axes. Inside, typical for the time and the area, there was probably a simple wooden flat ceiling in the nave and a vault in the choir. The paintings on the ceilings and walls were probably made by the same artist (the name is not known) from Gerolzhofen, who also painted the churches in Greßthal , Rütschenhausen and Wasserlosen . Auxiliary Bishop Eucharius Sang consecrated the church interior, which was now completed in the late Gothic style, in the summer of 1605.
The baroque building
In 1729 Johann Sigismund Kilian was appointed parish vicar by pastor Wilhelm Jakob von Reinach . It was his great wish to build a large baroque parish church in Greßthal . That's why he had Balthasar Neumann make plans for it. In Greßthal, however, a construction of this size was not possible due to the geographic situation. The parish vicar therefore proposed to the Schwemmelsbach community to build this building here. Most of the costs were covered by Johann Sigismund Kilian himself.
The foundation stone was laid in 1738 after the old church building from the real time was demolished - only the tower remained. To the south of this, a three-axis nave with a choir in the east was built based on a plan by Balthasar Neumann. Prince-Bishop Friedrich Carl Graf von Schönborn donated the vault and the painting of the church building as a sign of recognition of the great achievement of the community Schwemmelsbach and the parish vicar Johann Sigismund Kilian.
Baroque furnishings
The high altar comes from the workshop of the sculptor Johann Georg Gosolovsky. The pulpit made Friedrich coin. The former side altars, which were removed in the 1920s and replaced with new ones (also in the Baroque style), also came from him. Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bernhard Mayer consecrated the completed church on October 5, 1744.
The Gothic seated Madonna (around 1350), which has had a new place on the left nave wall since 2004, is particularly interesting. The renovation in 2004 made the Kuratiekirche St. Cyriakus again a baroque gem in the Reichtal, which invites you to pray.
Bells
The church has three bells, the oldest being given as 1404. The tone sequence is g sharp ′ - h ′ - c sharp ″.
literature
- Wilhelm Apprich: The history of the upper parish Greßthal , Schweinfurt 1903.
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ' N , 10 ° 2' E
