Assumption of Mary (Erbendorf)

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The Parish Church of the Assumption with the Loretto Chapel (right)

The parish church of the Assumption of Mary is the Roman Catholic parish church of the city of Erbendorf in the northern Upper Palatinate in the diocese of Regensburg . It was probably built for the first time between 1391 and 1416 and rebuilt in its current form from 1796 to 1799 after a fire. Until 1923 it served as a simultaneous church for the Protestant and Catholic parishes in the city.

history

The parish church of Erbendorf was probably built between 1391 and 1416, which is documented by a Salbuch of the Parkstein rule, which names an old church of St. Vitus in addition to the parish church. The Church of the Assumption of Mary is located on the site of a former castle, which is confirmed by excavations from 1923, during which thick masonry was discovered. The church was probably destroyed around 1470, as an inscription above the entrance to the sacristy mentions a new building from 1474.

Like the town of Erbendorf, it has been destroyed by fires several times since the church was founded. It was completely destroyed during the great market fires in 1568, 1676, 1771 and 1796. After the fire in 1771, the building was extended to the west and existed in this form until the 20th century. The construction of the church tower was postponed until 1794 due to problems with financing. Two years later it burned down again, but the building was largely preserved and rebuilt with sober furnishings. The benediction took place on September 22nd, 1799. The church tower, which is around 50 meters high, dates from 1865 and was added to the nave in a year and a half after the old tower had been demolished down to the lower two floors.

Since the Thirty Years' War the parish church was intended as a simultaneous church for the Evangelical Lutheran and the Catholic parish of Erbendorf. After the church had served as the city's simultaneous church for over 200 years, the Simultaneum was dissolved in 1918 and the following year the two denomination groups contractually declared an end.

In 1923 an extension of ten meters in length was added to the west side of the nave. During this construction project, the two galleries were also removed and replaced by a single larger gallery in the newly created structure. The ceiling paintings in the nave and in the choir were created by the Munich lay brother Rudolph Schmalzl from 1927 to 1929.

description

Interior

View into the interior towards the choir

The high altar is a stately baroque building with four columns and two life-size statues of saints, a figure of John the Baptist on the left and St. Sebastian on the right . The ears of the tabernacle are symbols of the holy bread, the host, the vines and grapes as donors of the wine symbol of the holy blood. In the reliquary on the right side are the bones of the holy martyrs Amanda, Tranquillus, Clarus, Benedictus, Fortunata, on the other side those of Tranquillus, Anastasius, Benedicta, Candidus, Januarius. The altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary comes from Ulrich Halbreiter and was made in 1851.

The two side altars are from the Rococo . The altar panel on the left altar of the Corporis Christi Brotherhood was created by the Regensburg painter Josef Altheimer (1860–1913) and shows the scene in which Christ reveals himself to the two Emmaus disciples by breaking bread. Above that, a smaller picture above with Christ on the cross probably comes from Altheimer. On the sides there are figures of Johannes Nepomuk and Franz Xaver . The right side altar forms the counterpart to the one on the left. The altarpiece depicts the Holy Family with Mary as a child and her parents, St. Anna and St. Joachim , and was probably made or donated in 1691. In the small picture above, the holy virgin and martyr Margaret leads the devil in the form of a dragon on a chain.

The pulpit , also in the Rococo style, was purchased by the Catholic community around 150 years ago. The sound cover bears a figure of Moses with the commandments received from God. Figures of the four evangelists were still attached to the frame of the pulpit until 1899, and they are now in the parish church of St. Giles in Ebnath .

  • Side altar on the left, pulpit

  • High altar

  • Side altar on the right

organ

modified organ brochure by Johann Konrad Funtsch

The first organ in the parish church came from the Franciscan monastery in Kemnath , built by Johann Konrad Funtsch and was passed on to the church community in Erbendorf in the course of secularization in Bavaria in 1802. In 1884, the organ building company GF Steinmeyer & Co. manufactured a new work with mechanical cone chests as Opus 262, partially using the old pipe material for the organ case, which is worth preserving. It was on this organ that Max Reger composed and tried out his Morgenstern Fantasy in 1899.

Just 30 years later, the work was replaced by a new two-manual structure with 28  registers , which Steinmeyer had also produced as Opus 1188 with pneumatic action . When the church was expanded in 1923, the church received a new organ gallery. As the historic housing looked too low at the new location, a three-part structure with the lyre-like top was added in the middle, as can be seen in a photo from the city archive from 1925.

In 1975, the congregation bought a new organ from Michael Weise from Plattling . It has a mechanism with 18 stops, which is equipped with a mechanical stop and action mechanism. The pipes are located in the historic organ case and in the previously empty structure. The disposition of this instrument created Eberhard Kraus . When there was another change in 1989, registers were rearranged and exchanged. For example, the seventh was removed from the sesquialter of the first manual and the third cymbal in the upper work was replaced by a crumhorn . The upper work was also equipped with a swell box.

Today's organ thus has the following disposition:

Main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Salicional 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th flute 4 ′
5. Gemshorn 2 ′
6th Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
7th mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Upper work
8th. Dumped 8th'
9. Wooden principal 4 ′
10. Principal 2 ′
11. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 ′
12. Krummhorn 8th'
pedal
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th Octave bass 8th'
15th Dacked bass 8th'
16. Choral bass 4 ′ + 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Rauschpfeife 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 2 ′
18th Bombard 16 ′

literature

  • Peter Morsbach: Erbendorf - The churches of the parish . 1st edition. Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 1990, ISBN 978-3-7954-5549-1 .
  • Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .

Web links

Commons : Mariä Himmelfahrt (Erbendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish of Erbendorf: Historical development of the parish of Assumption of Mary in Erbendorf
  2. ^ City of Erbendorf: Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary
  3. ^ Parish of Erbendorf: Equipment of the parish church - the right side altar
  4. ↑ Parish Erbendorf: Detailed information on the organ of the parish church , accessed on January 27, 2017

Coordinates: 49 ° 50 ′ 18.1 ″  N , 12 ° 2 ′ 48 ″  E