Assumption of Mary (Oberbach)
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Assumption is the village church of Oberbach, a district of the Wildflecken market in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . The church is one of the monuments of Wildflecken and is registered together with the churchyard wall, the five stations of the cross in it, the cemetery cross and two wayside shrines at the church under the number D-6-72-163-22 in the Bavarian list of monuments . The parish of Oberbach forms the parish community of Oberer Sinngrund with the parish Wildflecken / Oberwildflecken and the Curatie Riedenberg .
history
Oberbach originally belonged to the parish of Bischofsheim . After numerous letters of appeal and complaints about the long way to the church service, the Würzburg prince-bishop Friedrich von Wirsberg approved the building of a chapel in Oberbach in 1567 . In 1589, his successor Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn gave in to further pressure from the Oberbachers and founded the Oberbach parish with the Rothenrain and Wildflecken branches . In 1613, the original nave of the church that still exists today was built and the church tower was raised as the Julius Echter tower . In 1690 the newly settled Reussendorf became a branch of Oberbach. Oberriedenberg followed in 1722 and Unterriedenberg in 1830. The church was too small for Oberbach, Reußendorf and Rothenrain with Silberhof (Riedenberg and Wildflecken had their own chapels). That is why it was expanded south from 1919 to 1921.
description
Today the church faces south. The integrated nave from 1613, on the other hand, is oriented towards the former choir in the basement of the eastern church tower. The altars and the pulpit are in the Rococo style. On the high altar there is a figure of Our Lady in the middle and the apostles Peter and Paul on the side pedestals . On the right side altar is a crucifix to see, on the left side altar a painting of St. Anthony . The font bears the inscription "FONS SACER (holy spring) 1770". The organ is set up on the northern gallery .
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literature
- Gerwin Kellermann: 400 years of Oberbach parish , Oberbach 1990
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments: Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia , Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00359-2 , p. 643
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 25.5 ″ N , 9 ° 52 ′ 57.8 ″ E