Assumption of Mary (Walting)

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The parish church of the Assumption of Mary is a Catholic church in Walting , a district of Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The listed choir tower church has the address Walting 94. The parish of Walting belongs to the diocese of Eichstätt .

history

The church , which is essentially medieval, has been the parish church of the village since 1557 . It was restored in 1774 in the Baroque style .

In 1817 and 1869 the cross of the church tower was bent during storms . In 1874 the church tower burned down; The new building got a higher steeple, which is crowned by a pointed helmet .

Interior

The high altar comes from the Neo-Baroque and has a late Gothic figure of Mary from 1500. Statues of Saints Peter , Paul and Sebastian come from the 16th century .

Ceiling painting

Central image in the ceiling painting
Central image in the ceiling painting

The ceiling painting extends almost over the entire nave, only above the gallery there is no visible painting. The Assumption of Mary can be seen in the central painting. Mary is framed by God the Father , Jesus and St. Spirit as well as a multitude of angels.

The central picture of the ceiling painting is framed by 8 saints. As a diocese saint , St. Willibald and St. To see Walburga . Also on display are: Pope Gregory the Great , Ambrosius , Hieronymus , Wendelin , Leonhard and Augustine .

  • Pope Gregory the Great

    Pope Gregory the Great

  • Ambrose

    Ambrose

  • Jerome

    Jerome

  • Wendelin

    Wendelin

  • Leonhard

    Leonhard

  • Augustine

The central ceiling painting is framed with stucco.

organ

The organ

In 1818 an organ from the secularized Franciscan monastery in Ellingen was installed in the west gallery, which Anton Bayr had built in 1745. In 2002, Siegfried Schmid installed a new organ behind the prospectus from 1745 . The historic pipes and windchests came to the Valley Organ Center , where the instrument was reconstructed behind the replica prospectus.

Bells

The bells were cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in 1953. The chime has the striking notes e ′, g ′, a ′ and h ′. The Bavarian King Ludwig II donated booty cannons from the Franco-Prussian War to the parish to re - cast the destroyed bells . After the restoration by Othmar Lux in 1948 , a storm tore the cross from the tower in 1986.

Others

St. Bartholomäus , the neighboring church in Walting, was closed in 1807.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : Assumption of Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catholic parish church of the Assumption. in Pleinfeld (Walting)
  2. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 5, 2015 ; accessed on August 31, 2019 . The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation seems to be redesigning its website ("Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas" as the successor to the "BayernViewer", not yet available, cf. Bayerischer Denkmal-Atlas ). The link should be reconstructable from the original source later (2021?). [outdated]
  3. ↑ Bells in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
  4. ^ Description of the church on the Pleinfeld website
  5. ↑ St. Bartholomew

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '8.1 "  N , 11 ° 3' 36.8"  E