Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Rauenzell)

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The church from the outside
Look at the altars
Northern choir wall
South choir wall
Christ in the grave from the former pilgrimage church of St. Salvator near Rauenzell
Christ in the tomb, detail
Anna herself the third
Panel with the legend of the foundation of the pilgrimage church of St. Salvator
Mount of Olives Group

The Visitation of Mary is the Roman Catholic parish church in Rauenzell , part of the city of Herrieden in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach and in the diocese of Eichstätt .

location

The church stands on a slight elevation in the southern area of ​​the village on the state road 2249 coming from Burgoberbach , which turns off after the church in the direction of Herrieden.

Parish and building history

Until the 14th century, Rauenzell and Oberbach were a branch of Großenried ; early masses are mentioned for 1322. In 1362 the Liebfrauenkapelle in Rauenzell, at that time a branch of Burgoberbach, received a letter of indulgence from 13 bishops. 1452 took place under the Eichstätter Bishop Johann III. von Eych separated from Burgoberbach and elevated it to its own parish. At this time there was certainly already a church, but there is no information about it. It was probably a fortified church because in the cemetery wall there was a gate tower with loopholes , which was demolished in 1893. In 1699 a renovation took place; the church had probably suffered damage in the Thirty Years War . Based on a cost proposal from 1748, it can be assumed that the church tower was given its present shape around the middle of the 18th century according to plans by the Eichstätter court sculptor Matthias Seybold . In 1752 three baroque altars that no longer exist were consecrated, and in 1795 the nave was given a wooden ceiling. In 1808 the parish church in Rauenzell received works of art from the pilgrimage chapel of St. Salvator in Steinbachtal, which was being demolished .

The increasing population in the 19th century called for a larger church. In 1821 the church was extended to the east. In 1839/44 three new altars, created by the Ansbach sculptor and restorer Franz Herterich (1798–1876), were erected. In 1877, the schoolhouse within the cemetery wall was demolished. The sacristy was added in 1889. In 2007 the wooden floor of the church was replaced by a stone floor with modern heating technology. The parish belongs to the Herrieden Parish Association and the Oberland Parish Association.

Building description

The church and the St. Johann cemetery chapel are in a walled cemetery. It is oriented west-east, the tower is in the west. In the flat-roofed, five-bay long house with arched windows , the eastern axis is extended like a transept by arched flat niches. The gable roof is partially hipped . The choir in the east of the church closes with five sides of the octagon, has a plastered flat ceiling over a profile strip and cove and an arched window on each side. The choir arch is drawn in with a stitch arch with pilaster strips . The arched sign and a niche of the Mount of Olives (15th century) share a monopitch roof. The organ gallery is in the west. The square west tower is two-story and has round-arched sound openings on the upper floor . Its roof shape is a four-sided pyramid . To the east of the choir is the sacristy annex .

Furnishing

  • The four-column high altar (1839/44) with angels in the excerpt has new wooden figures of the Eichstatt diocesan saints Willibald and Walburga on the sides . A newly painted wooden figure of the risen Christ (around 1500) is in the extract. The rectangular altarpiece (19th century) depicts the Visitation of Mary and was painted by Johann Andreas Engelhart from Nuremberg .
  • The north two-pillar side altar has an altarpiece by the same artist, showing St. Catherine . The picture in the excerpt shows St. Dominic , painted by Lang in 1891.
  • The southern side altar, also with two columns, also has an altarpiece by JA Engelhart, the stoning of St. Stephen (from 1847). In the essay, the picture shows St. Francis , probably von Lang.
  • The hanging pulpit may have been built at the same time as the altars; on the back wall there is an arched picture of the Savior, on the sound cover the apocalyptic lamb stands .
  • From the former pilgrimage church of St. Salvator in the Steinbachwald come a panel with a representation of the founding legend of the pilgrimage (18th century) and a sandstone figure of Christ lying in the grave in a niche in the south wall of the nave , whose head is supported by an angel (second half of the 15th century) . Century).
  • The following wooden figures are distributed in the church: crucifix (around 1500, recast), Pietà (second half of the 15th century, recast), Anna selbdritt (second half of the 15th century, heads probably revised, recast); Busts of Saints Laurentius and Florian (around 1500, recast), figures of the Archangels Michael and Raphael , Saint Sebastian (first half of the 16th century), statuette of the Risen Christ (first half of the 18th century; recast), lecture cross (around 1800) and brother Konrad von Parzham (in sign; 1938).
  • Mount of Olives group with newly set stone figures (mid-15th century) "of high artistic value".
  • Limestone - Epitaph on the outside wall for Johannes Georgius Vollnhals (18th century).

organ

The organ was built in 2003 by the Lutz organ manufacturer in Feuchtwangen. The original organ from 1777 found a new place in an organ museum. The new organ was consecrated in July 2003 by Bishop Walter Mixa . The red-green marbled, partially gold-plated five-part prospectus has carved panels. The slider chest instrument has 16 stops on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Principal 8th'
3. Dumped 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Octave 2 ′
7th Mixture III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Hinterwerk C – g 3
8th. Reed flute 8th'
9. Salicional 8th'
10. Wooden flute 4 ′
11. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. flute 2 ′
13. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
15th Sub-bass 16 ′
16. Octave 8th'

St. Johann cemetery chapel

The chapel in the southeast corner of the walled cemetery was probably built in the 15th century and renovated in 1627. In 1779 the roof was redesigned. In 1891/92 a Lourdes grotto was installed after the altar was removed . In 1950 it became a cemetery chapel again with a western, long house-like porch. The upper part is listed as an octagon and is closed by an eight-sided pyramid roof.

Former pilgrimage church of St. Salvator

The legend says that a noble maiden resigned a consecrated host in the forest Steinbach in the 14th century and was ordained at this location in 1493 or earlier, a first wooden chapel of St. Salvator. This founding legend is shown on a panel in the church of Rauenzell. The pilgrimage was alive until the 19th century; At the instigation of the state authorities, the church, which was expanded from 1764 to 1784 under the eichstättisch-prince-bishop Maurizio Pedetti , was demolished in the course of secularization in early 1808.

Others

literature

  • Address manual for the Franconian principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth . Publishing house of the two orphanages, Ansbach and Bayreuth 1801, p. 170 ( digitized version ).
  • Manfred Jehle: Church conditions and religious institutions on the upper Altmühl, Rezat and Bibert: Monasteries, parishes and Jewish communities in the Altlandkreis Ansbach in the Middle Ages and in modern times (=  Middle Franconian Studies . Volume 20 ). Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-771-9 , p. 212-213 .
  • Rauenzell. In: Hans K. Ramisch: Feuchtwangen district . [Brief inventory], Munich: Dt. Kunstverlag 1964. See [1]
  • Rauenzell. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Edited by Tilmann Breuer and others. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999, p. 872.
  • Edmund Zöller, Elisabeth Vogl (text) and Petra Gaab (photos): Parish church "Mariä Heimsuchung" Rauenzell. [Church leader], n.d. [after 2007]
  • Edmund Zöller, Elisabeth Vogl (text) and Petra Gaab (photos): Parish church "Mariä Heimsuchung" in Rauenzell. [Leaflet]. Row of churches in the Hesselberg region. OOoJ [after 2007]
  • Rauenzell (Mariae Visitation). In: Manfred Jehle: Church conditions and religious institutions on the upper Altmühl, Rezat and Bibert. Monasteries, parishes and Jewish communities in the Altlandkreis Ansbach in the Middle Ages and in modern times. Ansbach: self-rel. of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia, 2009, p. 212.

Web links

Commons : Visitation of the Virgin Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church Leader Leaflet
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Rauenzell, in: Ramisch, Landkreis Feuchtwangen
  3. ↑ Community history Burgoberbach ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Rauenzell on the parish association website
  5. ^ Zöller, parish church, p. 8
  6. ^ Zöller, parish church, p. 7
  7. ↑ Herrieden Parish Association
  8. ↑ Diocese of Eichstätt, Parish Association Oberland
  9. ↑ History of St. Salvator ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sanktsalvator.de
  10. ↑ a b Dehio, p. 872
  11. ↑ Church Leader Leaflet; Zöller, parish church, p. 6
  12. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; History of St. Salvator @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sanktsalvator.de
  14. ↑ KDFB anniversary review ( Memento from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 45 ″  E