Maria Magdalena (Gleiritsch)
The branch church Maria Magdalena in Gleiritsch , the Romanesque origin of which goes back to the 13th century, is a “happy combination of the old with the new” after the extension .
It is one of the few handicapped accessible places of worship in the Upper Palatinate and the only one in the Schwandorf district. The building can be entered without any steps, the church floor slopes slightly towards the front, so that every church visitor has a good view. After the extension in 1978/79, a modern church was built, into which the historical structure was integrated. The extension was only possible by moving the cemetery around the church.
Church history
Parish of Gleiritsch (1286)
Just like the village of Gleiritsch , the parish can also look back on a long and historic past. The first verifiable mention of the place Gleiritsch took place in 1031. in a record of the St. Emmeram monastery in Regensburg. In 1286 the parish of Gleiritsch is mentioned for the first time in one of the oldest parish registers in the diocese of Regensburg. The list was drawn up at the instigation of Pope Gregory X and later on the orders of Pope Honorius IV and was intended to finance the crusade . Each parish was entered in valuation lists, including Gleiritsch, and each clergyman was ordered to pay a certain amount.
The directory, which gives valuable information about the Christianization of the diocese of Regensburg , names 22 different deaneries , including the deanery "Viechtach vel Lue". 53 places appear in this deanery, one of them the place “Glärätsch”. The current parish seat of Weidenthal , to which the later expositur was subordinated, is missing in this directory.
In addition to this note, a manuscript at the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg reports on the parish of Gleiritsch. "In 1433 Gleiritsch is listed as a Catholic parish under the Nabburg deanery ".
Friedrich Lippert writes: “Nabburg inspection. Gleiritsch - formerly Glauratsch - (...). Eq. Was a parish in the 15th century, to which Weidenthal belonged as a branch. In 1557, Eq. Provided by Hohentreswitz. As a result, Weidenthal became a parish and a Gleiritsch branch, which has remained until today ”.
Expositur Gleiritsch
Until 1691 Gleiritsch and Weidenthal belonged to the parish of Nabburg . At the urging of the lords of Guteneck , the Counts of Kreith, the parish of Weidenthal was established in 1691 under Count Johann Friedrich von Kreith . From Weidenthal, Gleiritsch received pastoral care from an assistant priest. Until the 19th century the parish had the double name Weidenthal-Gleiritsch. In 1688 the Counts of Kreith bought the Hofmark Gleiritsch and the Hebenhof. For this reason Guteneck remained the main seat of the parish, while the formerly independent parish of Gleiritsch became a branch.
The "Graeflich Kreithsche Expositurstiftung"
Again and again there were times when the cooperator position in Weidenthal was not occupied due to the shortage of priests , so that during this time "in Gleiritsch except once a year" there was no Sunday service for a long time. Otherwise, the pastor of Weidenthal celebrated mass twice a week, after which he gave religious instruction at school.
Since Gleiritsch is about an hour's walk from Weidenthal, it was difficult to reach in winter, including the associated branch locations. A large number of the faithful attended church services in Tännesberg or Hohentreswitz (part of the Pfreimd community ), only a small number took to the walk to Weidenthal to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass. It is obvious that these conditions were not conducive to pastoral care.
For this reason, the Regensburg Episcopal Ordinariate wanted to set up a pastoral care office in Gleiritsch as early as 1842 or relocate the cooperator office from Weidenthal here. However, the project failed due to the lack of the necessary funds. The parishioners were unable to establish a benefice from which a pastor could earn a living. There were no church taxes or similar charges for paying a priest through the episcopal ordinariate at that time.
Countess Fanny von Kreith
It was only through the generous donation of 20,000 marks from Countess Fanny von Kreith, widow of Count Ludwig von Kreith, who died in 1893, that a foundation could be set up for the benefit of the pastoral care office. The mayor and blacksmith Michael Ries von Gleiritsch made a house built by him and the members of the branch available for the pastor. A building fund financed by Countess Fanny von Kreith covered a larger part of the construction costs.
Foundation letter
The foundation letter, which was signed by Pastor Wieshuber on July 23, 1897, regulates the details of the foundation and received the signature of the founder on July 25, 1897, as well as the church administration of Gleiritsch and all heads of household of the newly established branch. The area of the branch includes the former municipality of Bernhof (attached to the municipality of Gleiritsch in 1946) and the municipality of Gleiritsch. The Heilinghäusl, however, belonged to the parish Tännesberg. The Lower Curate Office approval of the foundation letter was given by the royal district office of Neunburg vorm Wald on August 5, 1897. The Lower Curate Office decision was granted the approval of the Upper Curate Office by government resolution of March 14, 1898 under number 16015, also from the Royal District Office of Neunburg vorm Wald, which was approved on May 23 Is made out in 1899. The Episcopal Ordinariate of Regensburg declared the Gleiritsch Expositur on September 15, 1899 to be canonically established.
Pastor in the Gleiritsch branch
- Revered Mr. Michael Wieshuber (founder of the branch)
- Rev. Mr. Max Lauber, 1st Expositus in Gleiritsch (until November 15, 1899)
- Rev. Mr. Johann Schwindl, 2nd Expositus in Gleiritsch (November 15, 1899 - January 30, 1907)
- Rev. Mr. Michael Eder, 3rd Expositus in Gleiritsch (February 16, 1907 - May 14, 1913)
- Rev. Mr. Josef Schmid, 4th Expositus in Gleiritsch (May 14, 1913 - December 1, 1915)
- Rev. Johann Feiler, 5th Expositus in Gleiritsch (December 1, 1915 - August 1, 1925)
- Rev. Mr. Josef Graf, 6th Expositus in Gleiritsch (August 1, 1925 - April 30, 1930)
- Revered Mr. Georg Pfeilschifter, 7th Expositus in Gleiritsch (May 1, 1930 - September 1, 1935)
- Revered Mr. Heinrich Stangl, 8th Expositus in Gleiritsch (September 1, 1935 - February 16, 1936)
- Rev. Mr. Josef Grabinger, 9th Expositus in Gleiritsch (March 1, 1936 - June 16, 1941)
- Rev. Mr. Albert Sertl, 10th Expositus in Gleiritsch (November 16, 1941 - September 1, 1949)
- Rev. Mr. Josef Schreiber, 11th Expositus in Gleiritsch (September 1, 1949 - November 1, 1953)
- Rev. Mr. Adolf Böckl, 12th Expositus in Gleiritsch (November 11, 1953 - November 1, 1960)
- Revered Mr. Alfons Müller, 13th Expositus in Gleiritsch (November 1, 1960 - January 15, 1966)
- Revered Mr. Alois W. Dirschwigl, 14th Expositus in Gleiritsch (September 4, 1966 - + September 11, 2008 as retired chaplain)
The Gleiritsch branch, the Weidenthal and Altendorf parishes have been merged into a pastoral care unit since 2006 due to the lack of clergymen. Since then there has not been an independent branch with its own priest.
Building history
The Expositurkirche Maria Magdalena in Gleiritsch is a building from the Romanesque period . The origin of today's building, or rather its core, goes back to the 13th century. The above description in the inventory of the St. Emmeram Monastery speaks for this point in time. The church patroness Maria Magdalena was very popular in the 11th and 12th centuries.
The Romanesque architectural style is another indication of the dating. It was widespread from the turn of the millennium to the first half of the 13th century. One of the special features of this direction is the round arch, as can be seen in the upper part of the southern outer wall of today's building. The massive pointed arches of the former side aisles, which were demolished during the extension in 1978/79, came from the extension in 1927/28.
In the 15th century there was a structural change to the Romanesque complex, as can be seen from a register of the Diocese of Regensburg . The tower probably dates from this time.
After an exposition had been set up in Gleiritsch in 1899 , it soon became apparent that the church was no longer able to cope with the demands. In 1904 the church was renovated, but it was “too small, too low, dark, damp and not acoustic”. In 1927/28, side aisles were added to the long sides.
Under Expositus Alois W. Dirschwigl the extension of the church took place after the cemetery that surrounded the building had been relocated. On July 2, 1978, Cathedral Chapter Prelate Franz Spießl was able to lay the foundation stone for the church expansion. The crowning glory of the church building, which is the only church in the Schwandorf district that is handicapped accessible. H. without steps and with a slightly forward-sloping floor area, was the consecration by Auxiliary Bishop Karl Flügel on July 21, 1979. He described the building as a “happy combination of the old with the new”.
altar
The baroque moving main altar made of stucco marble with colored columns, gilded capitals , cranked cornice and gilded ornaments made of stucco contains a picture of the penitent Maria Magdalena in her hermitage as an altar painting . It comes from a German school in the 17th century. Putti with silver and gold garlands flank another cartouche above the altarpiece, on which Simon Peter is shown with the crowing cock. The inscription ST is located in the magnificently framed cartouche between the altarpiece and the icon, which is decorated with a golden crown . MAGDALENA ORA PRO NOBIS (Latin = Saint Magdalena pray for us).
Grave slabs
With the completion of the church expansion in Gleiritsch and the consecration of the new church by Auxiliary Bishop Karl Flügel, the four grave slabs in the Gleiritsch church also found a new place after several changes due to the renovations. In 1556, the Lords of Plassenberg succeeded the Schlammersdorfer and Gleissenthalers on the Gleiritsch manor and determined the fate of the village until 1651.
Four grave slabs in the Gleiritsch church remind of the now extinct family of the Plassenbergs. The starting point of the Upper Palatinate line of this baron family is to be found on the Plassenburg near Kulmbach in Upper Franconia.
Christoph Jacob von Plassenberg
A tombstone with a large cross on the surface, on the underside of which is the coat of arms of the Plassenbergers, a tip that tapers upwards, bears the year 1571 . Further entries are so badly weathered that they can no longer be deciphered. Christoph Jacob von Plassenberg found his final resting place under this stone slab. Elector Friedrich III had him. von der Pfalz on September 25, 1559 “with the burklein Plassenberg and the goods belonging to it”. This tombstone, which was previously in the open, was removed from its original location during the church renovation in 1927/28 and set into the southern outer wall of the extension that was then newly built. After the renewed alterations and additions in 1978/79, the grave slab was given a new place on the modified south side of the church.
Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg
Two other tombstones remember Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg, who took over the Gleiritsch estate from his father Christoph Jacob von Plassenberg around 1570.
The stone tablet with the date 31 May 1584 bears the coat of arms of the Plassenbergers and Sauerzapf on the underside, above it a large cross. Due to the strong weathering - the stone was partly in the open - the inscription on the edge can only be partially deciphered. HERE LIGT BURIED THE EDEL VND ERNUEST ... it says on the stone, the rest of the text is illegible. This grave slab is now also on the southern outer wall of the Expositurkirche.
In addition to the epitaph just described , another plate reminds of Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg. After the repeated changes to the church, it now found a place on the southern wall of the building in the chancel. It bears the following inscription:
ANNO DOMINI 1584 DOMINICA EXAVDI HANS LORENZ VON PLASSENBERG CAME AVS NOBLE GENDER OF OLD STAM HIED TVGEND BEING HONORED VEST WAITING AVCH WITH IT AVFS BÖST HET NVCHTERN SINN VND TRUE MVND A ADELICH HEART IN SEIN FURND ZEH IN THE EVVIG FREVD
In the lower half of the epitaph on the left side there is the coat of arms of the Plassenbergers and next to it that of the Sauerzapf. The edge of the plate is decorated with five small coats of arms. Originally there were six, but the lower right edge piece was lost, probably in the course of the frequent church renovations. The left middle coat of arms is that of the Schlammersdorfer previously resident in Gleiritsch, who were followed by the Gleissenthalers and whose coat of arms can be found in the lower left corner of the stone slab.
Katharina von Plassenberg
Another epitaph , which was embedded next to the grave slab of Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg in the chancel, recalls Katharina von Plassenberg, a born von Mistelbach. She was the wife of Hans Christoph von Plassenberg, the son of Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg. The tablet shows the deceased with a prayer book in her hands. To the left of the head is the coat of arms of the Plassenbergers, to the right of it that of the Mistelbachers.
In the lower part there is the following inscription:
Left side
Katharina von Plassenberg / Rested here vnder this werckli / A born von Mistelbach / Your father was Herr zu Lindach / Johann von Mistelbach used / In this electoral land. / Des ampts had… quite a few years / Assistant nurse true / Anna von Meroltzhaim was born / Was her Fraw mother awesome. / They are called by Bechstahl / Because they have their apartment there / Johann Christoph von Plassenberg / Auff Gleiritscht them from God's work / Eim right aristocratic lord / Was dragged in honor. /
right side
Just as the parents keep noble, / So the daughter follows / For she was honorable and virtuous / How male is well aware. She honored God and his words / The poor she was happy to help / Was careful and trew in the house / And judged al ding Embsig. / How sara honors Abram / so she will hett her Junckerhern, / Was peaceful like Monica / And very noble Portia. / She has given birth to seven children / But three sons are four daughters / And is the last of her line / ... took an end.
On the edge
Fifty and one year old true. / Twenty years of it in the married couple / Live peacefully with her Junckhern / Finally, finally, wholeheartedly / The eighth and twentieth of February / Honestly buried here / God bestow you in Christ's name / A joyous resurrection Amen.
Grave slabs of the Plassenbergers
Epitaph Katharina von Plassenberg
Plassenberg grave slab from 1571
Plassenberg grave slab from 1584
Epitaph Hans Lorenz von Plassenberg
War memorial
In 1956 a war memorial for the fallen and missing of both world wars was erected on the edge wall (tower side). In the course of the relocation of the cemetery and the extension of the church, the small building had to be demolished. The new war memorial is now in the new cemetery on Pfarrweg.
Relocation of the cemetery
The cemetery was located around the Gleiritsch church. In order to be able to carry out the church expansion, the Roth property was removed and demolished. The cemetery had to be moved. In 1974 the grave sites were moved to the new cemetery on Pfarrweg. The church extension could be carried out on the space gained in this way.
literature
- Register of the Diocese of Regensburg, Regensburg 1916
- Benedikt Zehentmeier: Gleiritsch. Manuscript of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 0359, Regensburg 1845.
- Josef Plaß: The Upper Palatinate nobility. Donauwoerth 1880.
- Alois Köppl: From the history of the community Gleiritsch. Gleiritsch community 1988, 2nd edition
- Alois Köppl: From the church history of the Gleiritsch branch. in: Die Oberpfalz, 70th year, pages 262–265.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sermon Auxiliary Bishop Karl Flügel on July 21, 1979 at the consecration.
- ↑ Paul Mai: The St. Emmeramer Rotulus of the list of goods from 1031. VHVO 106, Regensburg 1966, pp. 87-101.
- ^ Wilhelm Fink: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Association for Research into the Regensburg Diocesan History. Metten Abbey 1953, pp. 5-13.
- ^ Wilhelm Fink: Fifteenth Annual Report of the Association for Research into the Regensburg Diocesan History. Metten Abbey 1953, p. 25. “Viechtach” refers to today's Oberviechtach in the Schwandorf district, not Viechtach im Bay. Confuse forest
- ^ Benedikt Zehentmeier: Manuscript at the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 1845, OMS 375
- ^ Friedrich Lippert: The parishes and schools of the Upper Palatinate (Electoral Palatinate) 1621 to 1648. VHVO 53, Regensburg 1901, pp. 135–229.
- ↑ a b Bavarian Main State Archive Munich, inventory: MK 24855.
- ↑ a b Bischöfliches Zentralarchiv Regensburg, holdings: Gleiritsch parishes, Weidenthal file.
- ↑ Schematism of the clergy of the diocese of Regensburg, 1888 to 1970.
- ^ Paul Mai: The St. Emmeramer Rotulus of the list of goods from 1031, VHVO 106, Regensburg 1966, pp. 87-101.
- ↑ Register of the Diocese of Regensburg, Regensburg 1916, p. 363.
- ↑ Register of the Diocese of Regensburg. Regensburg 1916, p. 363.
- ^ Benedikt Zehentmeier, manuscript, 0357, 1845.
- ↑ Josef Plaß: The Upper Palatinate Nobility. Donauwörth 1880, p. 155.
- ↑ Josef Plaß: The Upper Palatinate Nobility. Donauwörth 1880, p. 182.
- ^ Benedikt Zehentmeier: Gleiritsch. Manuscript of the Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 0359, Regensburg 1845.
- ↑ Jakob Wille: The German Palatinate Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Century of the University Library in Heidelberg. I. Codices Palatini Germanici 486. Heidelberg 1903, p. 61.
- ↑ Siebmacher's Wappen-Buch. Facsimile reprint of the twelve supplements published from 1753 to 1806 by Verlag der Raspische Handlung in Nuremberg. 4. Supplement. Munich 1979, table 24.
- ↑ GA v. Mülverstedt (Ed.): J. Siebmacher's great us general coat of arms. Volume 6, Department 11. Nuremberg 1905, p. 22 and plate 12.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 57.4 " N , 12 ° 18 ′ 46" E