Annunciation (Unterebersbach)

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The Church of the Annunciation in Unterebersbach

The Catholic Church of the Annunciation (also Maria Schnee ) is a church in Unterebersbach , a district of the Lower Franconian community Niederlauer in the Bavarian district of Rhön-Grabfeld . The church has a churchyard wall with a way of the cross, a Marian column, a Marian grotto and a wayside shrine. The church and its facilities are among the architectural monuments of Niederlauer and are registered under the numbers D-6-73-146-47 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

The church is a post-Gothic hall church and was built around 1600 (or at the end of the 16th century). The church consists of a nave with a gable roof , a retracted late Gothic choir from the middle of the 15th century and a pointed helmet roof rider.

According to a legend, which is only documented from 1845, a hunter who got lost and had been on the road for days sat down to die under a hazelnut tree. Here is it the Mother of God appeared and had shown him the way. A chapel was finally built on the hazelnut bush. With the donations of the pilgrims, a church could finally be built, which is mentioned for the first time in 1453 on the occasion of the foundation of a vicariate as the new chapel at Ebersbach in Ried . The church was consecrated by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Johannes Hutter and was already there for St. Dedicated to Mary.

The brotherhood , a claus for male and female lay people , is mentioned for the first time in 1496 . This was dissolved together with the parish when Unterebersbach became Protestant in connection with the Reformation . Under the Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , the church became the seat of the parish. In addition, under Prince-Bishop Mespelbrunn the church and hermitage were renewed and a Maria-Schnee-Brotherhood was founded.

Since 2002 the church has been one of the stations on the Franconian Marienweg .

Furnishing

Inside the church there is a high altar with a neo-Gothic winged altar .

The left side altar was built around 1720 and has two columns.

The right side altar was created around 1740. The altarpiece of the right side altar is a wooden panel painting from the 17th century and shows Mary and the child, including a two-towered church (possibly the Roman church of Santa Maria Maggiore ) and above it a devotional copy of the Maria Schnee image, which was donated in 1723 by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Johann Bernhard Mayer. This picture, which depicts the miracle of Mary in the snow , is also where the popular popular name of the church, "Mary in the snow", goes back.

In addition, the church houses a wooden figure of St. John from around 1500, influenced by the sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider . Michael as a soul weigher.

Furthermore, on the left side wall there is a panel painting of St. Peter , a figure of St. Anthony and a Pietà and on the right side wall a representation of St. Mary with globe.

Investments

The churchyard wall is made of natural stone . Be on the churchyard wall along the late classical , from sandstone existing stations of the cross in the first quarter of the 19th century.

The Marian column was built around 1670.

The Mariengrotte was built around 1900. A crowning statue of Mary made of stucco belongs to the Mariengrotte .

The wayside shrine is marked with the year "1645".

  • Way of the Cross (1st station)

  • Marian column

  • Mary's Grotto

  • Wayside shrine

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich Berlin 1999, p. 1044.
  • Josef Treutlein, Johannes Martin: Franconian Marienweg. Marian shrines and places of worship in Lower Franconia. Verlag Conventus Musicus, ISBN 3-429-02564-8 , pp. 128f.

Web links

Commons : Mariae Annunciation (Unterebersbach)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Treutlein, Johannes Martin: Fränkischer Marienweg. Marian shrines and places of worship in Lower Franconia. Verlag Conventus Musicus, ISBN 3-429-02564-8 , pp. 128f.
  2. ↑ a b Anja Legge: Pilgrimages in the Diocese of Würzburg. In: wallfahrt.bistum-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  3. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich Berlin 1999, p. 1044.
  4. ↑ "Fränkischer Marienweg" - Route 4 (graphic representation)

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 2.8 ″  E