Birth of Mary (Neundorf)
The core of the Roman Catholic parish church of the Birth of Mary in Neundorf , Upper Franconia , a part of Weitramsdorf in the Coburg district , dates from the 13th century.
history
The church goes back to a fortified church . The oldest parts, the basement of the tower and parts of the nave, the ashlar masonry on the southeast side, date from the 13th century. It was probably built into a choir tower church in the first half of the 14th century . The upper parts of the tower's ground floor, the middle floor and the bricked up cuboids in the nave date from this period .
In 1559 the nave was last extended with the addition of the sacristy and the top floor of the tower was built.
In 1613, when a parish was established in Neundorf, the Seßlacher church district was dissolved. Renovation work was carried out on the tower spire in 1630 and 1724. After a fire, a flat ceiling was put in the nave during the reconstruction in 1783 and the interior was redesigned in Baroque style. Since 1665 it has been looked after by Seßlach again, and in 1797 the parish again became independent as a long-term monastery parish. In 1857 there was a renovation with new glazing of the windows, in 1954 a new roofing of the tower and 1961/62 an interior restoration. In 1966 the congregation had the church renovated and the sanctuary rebuilt and redesigned. In 2006 the church tower was renovated and re-slated.
Building description
The church stands on a hill within a late medieval, oval walling made of broken masonry on the eastern edge of the village center, characterizing the townscape.
The choir room, which is square in plan with an outer edge length of 7.6 meters, is spanned by a plastered flat ceiling and illuminated through a rectangular window in the south wall. Three narrow, arched window openings on the east side are closed. The lower part of the facade of the church tower consists of small ashlar masonry, which is designed in the form of a triangular gable on the east side. Together with walled-up arched windows, it points to an original Romanesque tower-free chancel with a gable roof. Under the first cornice on the south side is a coat of arms stone with the shield of the Lords of Plapper who lived in and around Bad Staffelstein in the 14th century . Above is a low, second tower floor with slit windows and cornice. The third floor consists of irregular ashlar masonry and has ogival sound openings on three sides. The upper end is formed by a profiled, wooden eaves cornice followed by a tall slate-covered octagonal helmet with a knob, cross and weathercock. To the north of the tower is the sacristy extension with a tiled hipped roof .
A strongly receding choir arch connects the chancel with the nave. The nave with its tiled gable roof has two window axes with pointed arched windows on the long sides. Pointed arched entrances are in the west and south. The interior, spanned by a plastered flat ceiling, has two-storey wood piles on the west and north sides , which are dated around 1783. The galleries are supported by bulging and profiled square columns and have simple parapets. The facade consists of unplastered sandstone blocks, which mostly have pincer holes. On the south-east side, in the area of the oldest masonry, there is a closed arched window, on the south side there is a sundial . The west gable is broken up by two asymmetrically arranged round windows. Above the west portal there is a double cornice roofing with a roughly square frame field and the year 1779, and above the upper cornice there is a triangular gable with a flat relief showing a clamped cross with a circle and the designation 1630 on the crossbeam.
Furnishing
The interior is characterized by a high altar and two side altars. The high altar consists of a stone strip on which there is a classicistic rotating tabernacle with two floating angels, a work probably created around 1780. On the east wall above it hangs an early classical altar cross, surrounded by statues of Mary and John and below by two large angels. The southern side altar, the Marian altar, is adorned with a statue of the mourning Mary with the body of Jesus under a canopy of wooden pillars , made around 1520/1530. On the north side altar, the cross altar, there is a statue showing the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady Mary. Both side altars are crowned with medallions.
On the southern outer wall there is a large statue of Our Lady ascending to heaven, floating above the globe, crowned by the rays of the Holy Spirit dove. It is a work by the Bamberg artist Michael Trautmann, which was created around 1785 for the Tambach Castle Church and was previously arranged on the east wall above the altar.
The sandstone pulpit is dated to 1590. A pillar with a polygonal cross-section stands on a goblet-shaped foot and carries a pulpit made of five octagonal sides with flat reliefs of leaves. On the wooden sound cover is a statue of the Good Shepherd, probably from the 17th century.
organ
Today's organ was installed by the Bayreuth organ builder Johann Wolf in 1894. It replaced an older work that had ten registers and was last renovated in 1857. The organ has ten stops on a manual and pedal . The five-part organ prospectus consists of three rectangular fields that are separated by narrow intermediate fields. It is designed in the neo-renaissance style, but decorated with neo-coco carvings. In 2003 Orgelbau Sandtner from Dillingen an der Donau restored the instrument.
Bells
Three bronze bells hang in the church tower . The oldest, weighing 250 kilograms, has the tone c 2 and was cast by the Ulrich brothers in Apolda in 1922 . It bears the inscription “Ave Maria gratia plena” (Hail Mary, full of grace). The other two bells were cast by Karl Hamm in 1950 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg. Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 101
- ^ A b Günter Sprenger: Catholic Parish Church of the Birth of Mary, Neundorf. September 30, 2014
- ↑ a b c Karl Ludwig Lippert: Bavarian art monuments, district Staffelstein. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1968, p. 151f
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part IV. Yearbook of the Coburg State Foundation 1980, p. 133f
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 32.2 " N , 10 ° 50 ′ 37.3" E