Assumption of Mary (Kirchenthumbach)
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is the main church of the Upper Palatinate market in Kirchenthumbach and the "Parish of the Assumption of Mary" of Kirchenthumbach.
history
Due to the patronage of the Assumption of Mary , it is assumed that the local church may have been founded in the time of the Frankish kings. The area was given by the diocese of Bamberg to their traditional food , the Counts of Sulzbach . In 1227 the heiress Sophie von Sulzbach († 1228) claimed the right to occupy the church. However, with the extinction of the Sulzbachers, this was transferred to the Staufer and from these in 1268 to the Wittelsbacher . In the oldest directory of the parishes in the diocese of Regensburg from 1326, the pastor of Tumpach is named as the dean of a very large ecclesiastical administrative district that extends as far as Bohemia and the Vogtland ( Decanatus Tumpach: Ipse Decanus ). The dean's office included the Bohemian Asch , Marktredwitz , Thiersheim , Selb , Adorf in Vogtland , Markneukirchen in Saxony, Brambach , Marktredwitz, Dirsheim, Kulmain , Altenkemnath , Kastl , Slammersdorf, Tremmersdorf , Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate , Eschenbach Monastery , Windischeschenbach , Pressath , Thumsenreuth , Falkenberg , Pisa, Purcharztreuth and Ermdorf. In 1350, Selb, Asch, Brambach, Adorf and Markneukirchen changed membership of the deanery to Wondreb .
In the diocesan registers, Thumbach is first mentioned in 1174 and then in 1345. The latter is also confirmed by the inscription on a stone slab that was previously walled in above the church portal ( Anno domini MCCCXLV incepum est istud opus et per Ulricum decanum eodem anno finitum. Dt .: In the year of the Lord 1345 the construction was started and in the same year by the dean Ulrich completed. ). This short construction period is interpreted to mean that it was only a matter of expanding an existing church. According to this description, it was a choir tower church , which indicates a building period in the Romanesque period and also the function of a fortified church . The church and cemetery were enclosed by a 5.5 m high wall with four corner towers with loopholes and an area of 60 m by 60 m square. Gaden were attached to the inside of the cemetery wall, in which the residents could store their belongings or spend the night themselves in times of need. The tower on the northeast corner had a pointed roof on which a stork once nested. Since then it has been popularly known as the “Storchentrum”. In 1661 it was removed because the wood of the roofing was broken. The southwest tower was demolished in 1703. The last tower was partially demolished in 1720 due to the danger of collapse and provided with a roof that served as a stable for the teacher. When the school was rebuilt, it was completely removed in 1815.
1357 Kaiser Karl IV. The convent Heilsbronn confirming the occupation right of the Parish Kirchenthumbach, by a donation of Palatine Rudolf II. Came to the convent. From April 17, 1363, the pastor Bernhard communicated that the monastery had given him the church in Tumpach on the condition that he paid 40 pounds heller annually to the monastery at Nuremberg .
After the beginning of the Reformation , due to the principle of “ Cuius regio, eius religio ”, the population had to change faith several times. In 1525 the region became Protestant, 1529 Calvinist, then Protestant again and, from 1825, again Catholic during the Counter Reformation .
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The following is said of the church, which has been rebuilt several times: “It has a beautiful vault and is made of massive ashlar stones. The tower is also made of blocks; its dome is covered with slate. The tower is attached to the church in the east and is connected to it from the inside by forming the presbytery of the same. ”The nave of the church was 25.5 m long and 10.5 m wide, the presbytery was 6 × 5 m . The high altar showed the Assumption of Mary into heaven, the altar on the Gospel side represented the crucifixion of Christ , on the epistle side the altarpiece showed the sacrifice of the Savior in the temple , an early mass was donated for this altar . There were two galleries in the church, the upper one being for the organ. In 1574, under the Calvinist pastor Zeidler , the church was raised by two rows of ashlar stones and re-covered. The church tower was flanked by two chapels, which in turn had towers. An ossuary was later housed in one of the towers . In 1702 and 1710 the towers were demolished due to disrepair, and a sacristy was built in place of a chapel. This well-equipped church also fell victim to the great market fire of 1871; the damage was so great that not even the foundation walls were used.
The successor building in the neo-Romanesque style was completed as early as 1874 and consecrated on May 14, 1881 by Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey . The ceiling painting of this church was renovated around 1950 and a colorful representation of the Assumption of Mary was attached here.
This church was demolished in 1972 without urgent need; the new Assumption Church in Kirchenthumbach was built in its place. The current church was built by the architects Hans Beckers and Josef Lorenz. The foundation stone was laid on October 8, 1972, the consecration on May 26, 1974 by Bishop Rudolf Graber . The church building is an exposed concrete building with a free-standing bell tower , on the south side there is a sacristy extension. A baroque statue of the Mother of God from 1719 was placed in front of the church. An interior renovation took place in 1972 and an exterior renovation in 1993. During the market renovation in 2010/11, the church square was redesigned with a staircase.
Interior
The interior of the church is made of slurry and slightly structured clinker bricks. Here a central room was created on a cross-shaped floor plan, the ceilings of which are lined with wood. The Jura marble floor slopes slightly towards the high altar.
There is a crucifixion group above the altar . The church windows were designed by Erich Horndasch , the representations refer to the stations of Mary in God's plan of salvation. There are depictions of the four evangelists on the walls . The Way of the Cross comes from the Cologne artist Egino Weinert . Many parts of the interior (altar, ambo, holy water basin, baptismal font, etc.) were created by the sculptor Hans Wurmer from Hausen in the Kelheim district; The copper-clad church doors were also designed by him. A figure of Christ the King still comes from the previous church and was created in 1935 by Maximilian Roider from Regensburg.
Bells
Four steel bells made by the Bochumer Verein foundry in 1950 and 1953 are hung on the adjacent campanile : the St. Maria bell is tuned to the strike note e ', the bell St. Josef to g', the bell St. Sebastianus on a 'and the bell of St. Laurentius on the tone c' '.
organ
The organ was made by the Kubak company from Augsburg. It has 23 sounding registers .
literature
- Paulinus Fröhlich: Kirchenthumbach: Contributions to the history and cultural history of the market. Laßleben, Kallmünz 1951.
- Churches of the parish of the Assumption of Mary, Kirchenthumbach. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-6973-3 .
- Fritz Fürk: Kirchenthumbacher church history. In: Pictures from old times. Pp. 12-13. Kirchenthumbach 1996.
Web links
- Homepage of the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Kirchenthumbach , accessed on February 10, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish of Mariä Himmelfahrt Kirchenthumbach , accessed on February 10, 2020.
- ^ Paulinus Fröhlich, 1952, p. 46.
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 54.5 " N , 11 ° 43 ′ 27.6" E