Birth of Mary (Frauenberg)

Church of the Birth of Mary in Frauenberg

The listed Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in the Frauenberg district of the Upper Palatinate municipality of Brunn is only called "our Frawenperk near Pielenhofen" (1664) in the oldest preserved church accounts.

history

Frauenberg is first mentioned on June 24, 1333 as our Fraweperg . At that time, Perchtold Pettenhofer bequeathed this church, which was a branch church of Pielenhofen Monastery , various possessions for an anniversary for himself and his wife Reyhtze . During the renovation of the church in 1953, a tombstone was destroyed, the inscription of which is still described in the art monuments of Bavaria as follows: 1344 obiit domina Reitza Pettendorferin ; this donor died in 1344.

There is a legend about the miraculous image of Mary that it was hidden in the so-called “Lützlbrunnen” during the Reformation . Under miraculous circumstances, strange light signals had appeared and the cattle had behaved strangely, they were found there and taken to the chapel. The Lützlbrunnen is shown on the Christoph Vogel map as a brick fountain with a spring and once belonged to property no. 1 in Frauenberg. There is a pilgrimage from the Marienkirche in Frauenberg to the pilgrimage church of Mariaort .

It is assumed in the diocesan registers that the church was a much-visited Marian pilgrimage site even before the 16th century . The following entry can be found from a church invoice from 1708: “1708. May 20th the master was paid 1 fl 30 x for making a red skirt for the dear woman in the altar . ”So it was customary to dress the statue of Our Lady.

The church was spiritually cared for from the Pielenhofen monastery until it was secularized . The way to Pielenhofen is still called “Pfaffensteig” today. From 1805 the former priest and parish curate Alberik Schneid performed his duties here. Since there was no vicarage in Frauenberg, the priest was housed in Laaber Castle for the first two years and then with a farmer in the Pettenhof. From 1808 the vicarage was built by the royal arar ; the roof of a granary from Schloss Laaber was used for this.

Appearance

The predecessor of today's church dates from the 15th century and is described in the art monuments of Bavaria at the beginning of the 19th century as follows: “Recessed choir with a yoke and a five octagonal-sided end. Nave with 4 bays, only structured by pilaster beams. West tower with octagon and dome. Cross and cap vaults in the choir with hollow ribs and simple triangular consoles. Plate stones at the cross points. In the nave, flat barrel with stab caps. 5 Gothic windows with noses in the choir. ”The nave was rebuilt around 1760. In a map by Christoph Vogel, the church tower is closed with a pyramid roof, and a wide structure was attached to the tower so that one could think of a tower's room . The new tower was built in 1789 under the superior of the Pielenhofen monastery, Leonhard Volkmann , and the vicar of Frauenberg, Guido Bröm . The rod with the button at the top still comes from the old tower. A picture of the Virgin Mary was redesigned from sheet copper and turned as a weather vane .

As the Frauenberg church had become too small, pastor Andreas Grenger started a church expansion from 1949. 1953–1954 the church building was redesigned by Hans Beckers using the west tower and the choir of the previous building. In contrast to the previous building, the church was oriented from south to north. From the old church the one from the 14th / 15th The choir and tower from the 19th century are preserved. The former side of the nave is now a broad side of the church. The Gothic choir serves as a baptistery. On May 2, 1954, the church was consecrated by Archbishop Michael Buchberger , after it had already been designated on December 16, 1953 by the Cathedral Chapter Johann Hörmann .

Crucifixion group on the outside wall of the church

The exterior of the church is now dominated by the mighty gable of the south wall; next to it rises a three-story tower with an octagonal upper floor, which is closed by an onion dome from 1789. Opposite is the medieval choir .

Furnishing

The church is a hall building with a flat ceiling, a stepped hollow and a rectangular chancel. The rear part is taken up by the gallery and the old choir. On the east side, two round arches open into a chapel room. On the octagonal sides of the choir, mosaic pictures by the Parsberg painter Sigmund Spitzner were attached; they show the Lamb of God , Noah's Ark and a deer at the water source.

The high altar (from 1750/60) has a structure with four columns. The rear columns frame the late medieval miraculous image from around 1500, a mother of God with child, at her feet lies a crescent moon. A curved extract shows the heart of Jesus in a halo under a canopy, surrounded by winged angel heads and clouds. The tabernacle was made in 1787. The two side altars date from the middle of the 18th century and were bought under Pastor Albrik Schneid for 10 guilders and brought here from the demolished parish church of Pielenhofen . The left side altar shows the holy family and in the excerpt you can find St. Anna teaching Mary. The right side altar depicts St. Anthony of Padua , in the excerpt there is a picture of St. George . An altarpiece from the second half of the 19th century with the Immaculate Conception is kept in the side chapel . In 1839 the altars were redesigned with gold.

The pulpit comes from the old church and was made around 1760. It has a tassel-hung sound cover , on the five-sided body is Christ as the good shepherd. On the gallery parapet from the 18th century, several pairs of paintings are attached, which show the mocking of Christ and the mourning Mary, in between there are round pictures with the Annunciation to Mary.

The church still has several figures, such as an arrow-pierced St. Sebastian , the Archangel Michael weighing souls, the mourning Mary with her dead son on her lap , a Mary with the child (around 1480) and several winged angel heads. The Way of the Cross from 1932 consists of oval frames covered with ribbon carvings with almost fully plastic depictions of the stations of Christ's passion. It was acquired under Pastor Friedrich Reber , carved by the sculptor Helmer in Regensburg and painted by the Vistula church painter Böckl .

Of the three historical bells, the so-called Kißner bell from 1772 is still preserved, on it is the inscription "Johannes Erhardus Kißner zu Stadtamhof poured me 1772" and reliefs of John from the Apocalypse and St. Erhard , the second patron of the Diocese of Regensburg. The other two bells had to be given in during the world wars. In their place, on August 14, 1949, an eight hundredweight Joseph bell, which now serves as a death knell, and a Mary's bell with six hundredweight were installed. In 1962 an electrical bell was procured from the Rudolf Perner bell foundry in Passau. A church tower clock was bought in 1817, in 1906 it was replaced by a new tower clock made by Johann Frischmann from Eisenhammer . In 1962 the church was also equipped with an electric heater.

An earlier organ was bought by the parish church of Hemau in 1897 for 60 guilders, and in 1837 an expensive repair was carried out. The successor organ was purchased from the Eduard Hirnschrodt company in Regensburg through a donation from the machine manufacturer Eugen Dechamps from Nuremberg and his wife Margareth (from Brunn) when the new church was built. The wooden pipes from the old organ were reused. In 2004 Armin Ziegltrum built a new building.

Frauenberg cemetery

From time immemorial there was a church in the Frauenberg church. An expansion was discussed around 1900, but it was not started until 1936. Because of the start of the nearby Regensburg-Nuremberg motorway construction, the cemetery was not completed until after the end of the Second World War and inaugurated in 1950 by Pastor Andreas Greger .

The chapel of St. Maria is located in the cemetery. This building is said to date from the 17th century. On the Altarmensa there is a structure made up of two Gothic bundle pillars , which are connected by a flat arch with mortar plaster. On the altar is a simple, clay-burned Madonna that used to stand on the archway to the former cemetery. In the past, numerous skulls with initials and the year of death of the deceased were kept in the chapel, and many long bones were piled up here. All of this is gone today.

literature

Rappel, Joseph: Frauenberg in the past and present. Verlag Michael Lassleben , Kallmünz 1963, pp. 10-39.

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49.075775 11.906553Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 32.8 " N , 11 ° 54 ′ 23.6" E