Assumption of Mary (Altenstadt an der Waldnaab)

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The parish church of the Assumption in Altenstadt an der Waldnaab

The parish church of the Assumption of Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Altenstadt an der Waldnaab in the northern Upper Palatinate . It was probably built between 1150 and 1200 and is now a listed building. Today it is only used for special occasions.

history

The old parish church was probably built between 1150 and 1200, when Altenstadt became its own parish seat. Originally the church was dedicated to Saint Martin . The first major expansion of the building took place around 1500, when the long, late Gothic choir with the externally visible buttresses was created. Further alterations and expansions, supported by the princely Lobkowitz family, took place in 1573, 1676 and 1752. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the church was fitted out inside and received the side altars and the octagonal baptismal font, the rococo pulpit around 1600 around 1754 and the rococo high altar in 1782.

After the new parish church of the Holy Family was built in 1962, the Assumption Church lost its importance as the parish church of Altenstadt an der Waldnaab and became increasingly dilapidated. The renovation of the church began in 1989 and was completed in 1991. On October 13, 1991 the new people's altar and ambo were inaugurated by Auxiliary Bishop Vinzenz Guggenberger .

Interior

Interior view of the altar

The high altar dates from the 17th century, the altarpiece was made by the Neustadt church painter Johann Albrecht. On the right of the altar there is a statue of St. John the Baptist and on the left one of St. John Nepomuk . On both sides of the altar there are two epitaphs , monuments that are reminiscent of the Frankish noble family of the Heideck . One shows the knight Georg von Heideck in a medieval armor with sword and mace, the other shows his wife Felicitas in a contemporary garment. The font is one of the oldest objects in the church. It dates from the 12th century and bears figures of the four evangelists with their symbols. Above the stone is the octagonal baptismal font made of gray sandstone , which is decorated with numerous reliefs. The organ dates from 1888 and is a work by Ludwig Edenhofer , of which only a few works have survived.

Bells

There are four bronze bells in the tower of the Assumption of Mary. They were cast in 1948 by the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen at a price of around DM 14,000 and sound in the tone sequence e ′ gis ′ h ′ cis ″ in the Salve Regina motif. The bells together weigh 2300 kg and have the following diameters: 1215 mm, 964 mm, 810 mm, 722 mm. Two are dedicated to Our Lady, one to the Holy Trinity and one to St. Peter.

Web links

Commons : Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary (Altenstadt an der Waldnaab)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Altenstadt an der Waldnaab Monument List (PDF; 129 kB)
  2. ^ Parish Altenstadt an der Waldnaab: The old parish church "Mariä Himmelfahrt"
  3. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Johannes Weiden: Altenstadt, Mariä Himmelfahrt
  4. ↑ The organ on the parish website, accessed on August 30, 2017 (PDF)
  5. ↑ Michael Hardt in: 1000 Years of Altenstadt (Waldnaab). Altenstadt 1956, p. 35.
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 543 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 501 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  8. ↑ The bells on the parish website, accessed on August 4, 2017 (PDF)

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 39.6 ″  E