Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Pirk)
The listed Roman Catholic Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is the former parish church of Pirk , since 1964 it has been a branch church of the "Parish Resurrection of Christ Pirk" with the newly built parish church of the Resurrection of Christ .
history
The church of Pirk is mentioned for the first time in 1261 in a document from the Waldsassen monastery , so it must have been built earlier. It was, however, already in 1295 by Heinrich von Waldau and Konrad von Hohenfels set fire to it on 22 November 1295 by the Abbot of Oberaltaich on behalf of Pope Boniface VIII. With the excommunications were occupied. The background was that the Waldauer did not agree to the renunciation of various goods in favor of the monastery and therefore started a feud . Incidentally, the Hohenfelsers and, in their successor, the Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg still had goods in Pirk in the 17th century.
In this early period Pirk did not have its own parish, but Pirk belongs to the parish of Schimitz or Rothenstadt . The church had been incorporated into the Waldsassen monastery since 1402 and belonged to the Kemnath dean's office. From September 14, 1419 a letter of indulgence for Pirk comes from the Regensburg auxiliary bishop Theodorich, titular bishop of Hierapolis , who was commissioned by Bishop Albert III. reconciled the Pirk church with two altars and the Pirk cemetery in the Vigil of the Assumption of Mary . On July 14, 1440, an early measurement foundation for the church in Pirk, then part of Luhe, was established and financed with income from various estates. The foundation was confirmed on July 18, 1440 by Rudolf von Heringen , Vicar General of Bishop Friedrich II. The Landgrave von Leuchtenberg is entitled to nominate the early knife , the presentation to the pastor of Luhe and the investiture to the Ordinarius of Regensburg. In 1458 the Waldsassen monastery donated a reliquary cross to the church of Pirk. The teaching about the fair remained with the Waldsassen monastery, although the administration of the foundation was transferred to Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . In 1483 a brotherhood was founded in honor of Our Lady and the Archangel Michael in Weiden , to which the early knife from Pirk, Johannes Hackenschmit , also belonged.
On October 12, 1582, the land clerk Jakob Pühler reported that the Luhe parish church, which had changed to Lutheranism , and its neighboring churches, including Pirk, were all still provided with papist priests. In 1591 the Pirk church, located in the Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg , which remained Catholic, was described as structurally in poor condition. In 1595, Dr. Johann Federl and his wife Anna bought a farm from the church in Pirk and donated the interest of 20 fl. For an early knife or, if no one is there, to the pastor in Schirmitz for reading a mass. In 1694/95 the church building was extended, for which 202 fl were spent. On March 16, 1748 Maria Antonia Federl von Pürckh , sister of the Hofmark owner Johann Leopold Federl and valet of Empress Elisabeth in Vienna , made her will, in which she used her assets (approx. 11,000 fl) for the construction of a monastery in Pirk or - if there is no permit for erection - for a daily mass in the church of Pirk. In 1755 a benefit house was built near the church so that Pirk could get a permanent priest. Her daughter Anna Barbara Theresie Federl von Pirk († February 20, 1760) had a school built next to the church. First the pastor of Schirmitz, Johann Paul Schödl , took on this task for 2 florins 30 Kreuzers per week , in 1770 a provisional beneficiary Franz Anton Loederer was employed. In 1868 a new school and sacristan's house was built in Pirk, and in 1875 the benefit house was renovated.
On May 7, 1938, the Inkuratbenefician Pirk was converted into a Kuratbenefician . With effect from September 1, 1961, Enzenrieth and Hochdorf were repared to Prik. On July 19, 1964, Pirk left the parish association of Schirmitz and was raised to an independent parish by the Regensburg Bishop Rudolf Graber .
Construction
The church is a hall church with slightly protruding wall pilasters and a retracted choir . The church tower, which is structured with two fins , is finished with a pyramid roof and four clock faces of the church tower clock. The basement of the church is probably Romanesque . Between 1770 and 1773 the church was extensively renovated.
In 1925 four new bells were consecrated. With the exception of the smallest bell, these were melted down in 1942 during World War II . A new bell was consecrated on November 26, 1978. On May 2, 1982, a small organ with four registers for the one that was confiscated in 1944 was created and installed by the Hartmann company from Regensburg.
The Marienkirche was renovated between 1979 and 1980.
Interior
The ceiling frescoes uncovered during a later renovation probably come from the Amberg baroque painter Michael Wild . Scenes from the life of Mary are depicted: Annunciation , Visitation , Assumption of Mary and Coronation of Mary .
The baroque high altar has four columns and two curved struts from the 2nd half of the 18th century. In the middle of the high ages there is a sculpture of Mary and Child (around 1500), flanked by statues of her parents, St. Anna and St. Joachim . At the top is a God-Father figure in a wreath of clouds . The church also has two side altars and a Gothic figure of St. Catherine .
New parish church "Resurrection of Christ"
Out of the necessity to give the new citizens who arrived in Pirk after the Second World War a church home, a church building association was founded on August 5, 1961 and construction began that same year. The brewery and castle owner Josef Schwab and his wife Emmy made the property available for the church. Between 1961 and 1963 a new pastoral care center with a church, parsonage, youth home and extra-church pastoral care rooms was built. On August 26, 1962, Cathedral Chapter Augustinus Kuffner consecrated the foundation stone for the new church to be built. The plans for the church come from the Regensburg master builder Hans Beckers . The church, newly built in 1964 and consecrated on July 19, 1964 by Bishop Rudolf Graber, is consecrated to the “Resurrection of Christ”. Gottfried Leibl was installed as the first pastor in 1964 .
The five bells come from the Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg. Since 1965 the church has had an organ with two works and 22 registers from the organ building company Johannes Klais . The modernist fresco of the altar by the Munich artist Franz Nagel depicts the risen Christ . A picture of the Virgin Mary designed in the same style was completed in 1970. To the left and right of the altar there are concrete stucco representations from the salvation history of Leo Bäumler . In 1989 the leaky church roof had to be redesigned and replaced because the earlier rainwater let through. As a result, the organ also had to be renovated.
literature
- Gottfried Leibl: Parish Pirk. In: Adolf Wolfgang Schuster: 900 years of the Pirk community. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1993, pp. 791-797.
- Karl Prell, Rosa Prell: History of the Church in Pirk: Accompanying document to the exhibition 25 Years Parish Pirk from July 16 to July 23, 1989. (2nd revised edition). Self-published by Pirk, 1989.
- Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : 900 years of the Pirk community. Druckhaus Oberpfalz, Amberg 1993.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the "Parish Resurrection of Christ Pirk" , accessed on January 19, 2020.
- ↑ City of Vohenstrauß (Ed.): Vohenstrauss in the course of the times: local history on the history of the city on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of its first mention 1378–1978. Vohenstrauß 1978, pp. 58-59.
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria : Altbayern Series I, Issue 21: Tirschenreuth. Commission for Bavarian State History , Munich 1970, p. 317 ( Digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- ↑ Catholic Parish Church of the Resurrection of Christ , accessed on January 19, 2020.
Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 30.9 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 12.3 ″ E