Rectory Wurz

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The Wurzer Pfarrhof in Wurz, a district of the municipality of Püchersreuth , was built from 1776 to 1778 according to plans by Philipp Muttone , building director of the Cistercian monastery Waldsassen under Abbot Wigand Deltsch . The rectory was to serve as the abbots' summer residence. The complex and its outbuildings have been preserved and are now the venue for the annual Wurz summer concerts .

history

1776 to 1972

The rectory in Wurz, built according to plans by Philipp Muttone between 1776 and 1778, is considered the most beautiful of the rectory buildings he built. The master - lay brother of the monastery - was no longer able to accompany the building as he died in 1775. The court was only able to fulfill its intended function as the summer residence of the Waldsassen abbots for almost 25 years until the secularization of Bavaria in 1803. Then it served as a parsonage until 1972.

The rectory was built in the baroque style in keeping with the times . The two-storey structure has an impact due to its size, its balanced proportions and its harmonious shape. Windows and doors have granite walls. The hipped roof is supported by the support or angle structure of a "hanging roof structure". The doors in the interior of the building in the spacious hallways are also framed by granite and decorated with the tassel. The corridor on the first floor is on the south side so that the sun does not reach the rooms. The interior still contains numerous stylistic details, including some stucco ceilings and some preserved door locks. In the cellar, the wine racks and supports for beer kegs are carved out of the natural stone. An underground passage is centuries older than the house.

The vicarage included outbuildings such as the wash house, bakery, stables and barn, a large fruit and vegetable garden and a high wall.

1972 until now

With the departure of the last pastor in 1972, the intention was to demolish the old rectory in favor of building sites. However, a commission made up of the episcopal finance director, diocesan architects, district administrators , church administrators and the mayors of Wurz and Mitteldorf decided to preserve the Wurzer rectory. For a year there was no buyer for the property until 1973 when the Berlin doctor Rita Kielhorn bought it. She described the desolate condition of the rectory as follows: “The outer facade was crumbling, the walls were damp and moldy, the window panes were partially broken, the rooms could not be heated and were practically uninhabitable, the floors rotten, the swallows flew through the breviary and the bats hung on the Ceiling. ”Under the supervision of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Mrs. Kielhorn had the parsonage renovated in its old form and facade design with considerable financial resources and great personal commitment. The Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments received a grant of DM 3,000 for painting the facade . The enclosure wall was preserved, but had to be relocated and precisely restored for traffic reasons. After the main building had been completely renovated by 1977, the horse stable followed. It was restored to its original form and designed as a concert space. After that, an old shed was converted into a gallery for art exhibitions. The bakehouse was renovated and returned to its old purpose, and the washhouse became a small kitchen. The barn from 1740 is checked for structural damage and repaired every year before the concert season.

The parsonage was thus saved in its entirety as a document of Upper Palatinate cultural history and, as a monument next to the parish church of St. Matthew, determines the townscape.

Wurzer summer concerts in the historic rectory

Since 1988, organized by Mrs. Kielhorn, the Wurzer Summer Concerts with chamber music have taken place every year from the end of July to the beginning of September in the open air on the large courtyard with its good acoustics. When it rains, people move to the stables. The musicians come from all over Europe, mostly from Eastern Europe.

  • Rectory in the rectory of Wurz (2012)

  • Mozart in a wall niche in the rectory of Wurz (2012)

  • Summer concert in front of the parish stables (2012)

literature

  • Franz Binhack: History of the Cistercian Abbey Waldsassen under the abbot Wigand von Deltsch (1756-1792) . Eichstatt 1896.
  • Heinrich Ascherl : The Wurzer parsonage will remain . Oberpfälzer Nachrichten, July 7, 1972.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrhof in Wurz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Binhack: history of the Cistercian pen features Waldsassen under the abbot of Wigand Deltsch (1756-1792) . Eichstätt, 1896. p. 7
  2. ^ Rita Kielhorn: The Wurzer Pfarrhof from the seventies of the 20th century . Application for the monument award of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung 2008

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 19.8 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 2.9 ″  E