Maria Hilf (Gleißenthal)
The Roman Catholic church Maria Hilf in the Gleißental district of the Upper Palatinate town of Windischeschenbach is parishly supplied by the “Parish Community of St. Emmeram and Holy Spirit”, but is owned by the town of Windischeschenbach.
history
The master tailor Johann Georg Mathes, who emigrated to Vienna , and his wife Maria Anna became prosperous in Vienna and, after taking a vow, had the church built in 1747. A foundation was connected to the building, from the proceeds of which a mass should be read every Saturday for the donors (as long as they lived). After their death, the mass should be read alternately for their relatives and then for them. The foundation's capital was destroyed by the inflation after the First World War .
The initially built chapel was so small that it could only accommodate 20 people. On February 2, 1770, the Windischeschenbacher pastor Maximilian turned to Wiotha at the diocese of Regensburg with an application for a church expansion. After the pastor had referred to the existing assets of the church foundation and on behalf of the citizens of Gleißenthal had promised to perform manual and clamping services , the episcopal ordinariate issued the approval for the extension on July 19, 1770. However, the judge of Neustadt an der Waldnaab , Joseph Ludwig Ott , wanted to prevent this, as he was of the opinion that the money should rather be spent on the St. Emmerams Church in Windischeschenbach. But he was unsuccessful.
On July 1, 1951, a 500th anniversary celebration was held, at which the Gleißenthaler Freiherr Heinrich von Gleißenthal, chaplain in Munich, and his uncle Freiherr Kurt von Gleißenthal and his family were present. On the occasion of this celebration, a memorial stone with the coat of arms of the Gleißenthalers was donated by the community to the left of the church.
Construction
The Maria-Hilf-Kirche is a hall church with a pitched roof and a retracted, semicircular closed choir . The church tower is covered with an onion dome. On both sides of the nave there are windows with a round arch, which are equipped with colorful glass windows.
The church was renovated outside and inside in 1964, 1994 and 2013. The church is owned by Windischeschenbach and so the construction load has to be borne by the municipality.
Interior
The church is designed in the Rococo style. The church has a copy of a picture of the Helping Mary from the church on Schüttinsel (today in Slovakia ), which was brought by the church donor. The inscriptions on the ceiling frescoes were replaced by liturgical texts during a renovation in 1892.
The two side altars are artistically valuable, the altarpieces above the two side altars are painted on the wall. There are also depictions of four saints: St. Notburga , St. Thekla , the apostle Jude Thaddeus and St. Ivo . In addition, there are many other figures of saints inside and outside the church.
A number of well-preserved votive tablets can be seen on the back wall of the church . On one of the panels the note “ex voto” ( Latin “because of a vow”) and the initials “JMG” can be seen, from which one can conclude that this is about the founder Johann Georg Mathes himself.
literature
- Georg Hauser: Home book of the city Windischeschenbach. Pp. 527-530. City of Windischeschenbach 1991.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 12 ° 8 ′ 13.6 ″ E