Assumption of Mary (Bad Neustadt)
The Roman Catholic parish church Mariä Himmelfahrt is located in Bad Neustadt an der Saale , the district town of the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria . The naming refers to the assumption of Mary into heaven .
The church is one of the architectural monuments of Bad Neustadt an der Saale and is registered under the number D-6-73-114-47 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
At the site of today's church there were various previous buildings, including a. a Romanesque church with a choir tower, which was built around 1050. The remains of the foundations of the Gothic style church, which was uncovered in 1983/84, are marked on the north-east corner of the church by corresponding floor paving and described on an information board. From 1584 to 1589, Valentin Leucht (1550–1619), author, later imperial count and book commissioner , worked here as pastor or dean.
In 1793 the church was demolished due to structural defects and limited space. The court chamberlain Alois Geigel drew up plans for the new building, which after his death in 1798 the court architect Andreas Gärtner implemented as site manager. However, he wanted "that the many useless columns" should at least be dropped in the choir. However, this contradicted the will of the late Prince-Bishop Franz Ludwig von Erthal , who had expressly ordered that Geigel's plan be implemented in his favor. The construction work had to be stopped several times because of lack of money, but also because of the Napoleonic chaos of war. With the help of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, the building was completed in 1834. The interior was completed in the following two years according to plans by Johann Philipp Mattlener . On August 10, 1836, the church was consecrated under its current name by the Fulda Bishop Johann Leonhard Pfaff and the Würzburg Bishop Adam Friedrich Groß zu Trockau .
Architecture and equipment
The outside simple Bad Neustädter Marienkirche presents itself inside as a classical three-aisled basilica . The central nave, lined with Corinthian columns, has a barrel vault , the side aisles are flat-roofed. The round sanctuary is highlighted by the circular column position and a dome-like ceiling vault.
The alignment of the church with the altar to the west is unusual. It is also offset by around 30 degrees compared to its predecessors. The church is 21 on the outside, 18.40 meters on the inside, 49.77 on the outside and 47.80 meters on the inside. The wall thickness is 1.30 meters, the columns including the base and capital are 11 meters high, the mirror vault height is 6.80 meters from the column head, the tower height 56 meters to the cross point.
The east tower above the main entrance is eight meters square. Four bells make the ring: the Peace Bell from 1648 (end of the Thirty Years War ) weighs 2098 kilograms, the St. Oswald and St. Georg bell from 1505 weighs 1108 kilograms, the Four Evangelists bell from 1302 weighs 630 kilograms and the bell To the glory of God from 1975 has a weight of 401 kilograms; it was made by the Bachert bell foundry in Bad Friedrichshall. The donors of this smallest bell were Josef Englert, who came from Sommerau in Spessart , and his wife Elisabeth Englert, née Benckert.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 78
- Stefan Kummer : A lofty building - the parish church of the Assumption in Bad Neustadt an der Saale by Heinrich Alois Geigel . Sendner & Neubauer , Bad Neustadt an der Saale 2013, ISBN 978-3-944383-00-2 .
Web links
- The Assumption of Mary on www.rhoen.info
- Stadtpfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt on the website of the Parish Community Bad Neustadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 25.4 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 52.8 ″ E