St. Michael (Ehenfeld)
| Parish church Ehenfeld | |
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 Parish church Ehenfeld |
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| Location: | 49 ° 34 '43.5 " N , 11 ° 56' 38.2" E |
| Address: | Ehenfeld, 92242 Hirschau Ehenfeld Bavaria , Germany |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic Church |
| Local community: | Hirschau |
| Parish: | Marriage field |
The Catholic parish church of St. Michael is located in Ehenfeld , a district of the town of Hirschau in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in the Upper Palatinate ( Bavaria ). The church belongs to the parish community Hirschau / Ehenfeld in the diocese of Regensburg and is registered in the list of monuments under D-3-71-127-37 .
history
The church stands on a hill in a formerly fortified cemetery, of which a Gothic gate tower has been preserved in the northeast. The tower with the original choir, which is now used as a sacristy , and the remains of the wall on the south side of the nave have been preserved from the medieval church .
The Romanesque church was built at the turn of the 13th century. The church embodied the type of a choir tower church . The choir , which is now walled up , opened up to the nave in the west. At first, the choir was only illuminated through a narrow, sloping window on the east side; in the Gothic period a window was broken out on the south side. The nave was completely renovated after the Middle Ages, including the choir, including in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Century and 1782. North of the tower, a new choir was created and the old one converted into a sacristy. The tower moved away from the central axis of the nave, which was extended to the north and east, to the southeast corner. In 1962 the frescoes in the tower were exposed and restored, and the defense tower was renovated. The exterior was renovated in 1983/1984 and 2006.
architecture
Exterior
The church is a hall building covered with a gable roof with a choir of the same width, on the east side there is the tower with a tent roof and lantern. On the north side is the sacristy extension from the 15th century, on the nave and on the widened western section there are buttresses made of sandstone blocks. The west front is provided with round windows and a stepped gable divided by cornices.
Interior
The interior of the church is closed off by barrel vaults with stitch caps . The baroque ceiling frescoes were painted in 1948 by the Munich painter Josef Wittmann . The choir frescoes show the allegory of love, the frescoes in the nave show the Immaculate with Michael (the fall of Lucifer ) and George, an angel concert and six virtues. Also the oil painting in the main altar Michael as a soul guide and trinity, the left side altar painting Beheading Barbara and the right side altar painting Georg are by Josef Wittmann. The drafts for the altarpieces have been preserved and are in the Diocesan Museum of Regensburg with his drafts for church painting . Stained glass in the style of the Nazarenes was used in 1918.
Murals
In 1962 frescoes were discovered in the lower floor of the dream. They were hidden under a thick layer of white, although it is believed that this happened as early as the 16th century at the time of the Calvinist iconoclasm .
On the ground floor of the tower on the west side, the Romanesque semicircular choir arch is preserved on differently designed fighters . A Gothic ribbed vault has also been preserved in the adjacent room to the north. On the north and south side, fragmentary wall paintings from the 13th century are preserved, which depict Jesus' schooling according to legend and the Archangel Gabriel . A picture on the south wall next to the entrance door depicts the Holy Family and is also one of the oldest layers of paint. Above it, a late Gothic painting from the second half of the 15th century can be seen all around on all sides. It depicts an apostle frieze, above it doctors of the Church, the Last Judgment, Saints Nicholas , Aegidius and Nicasius . In the vaulted areas the four evangelist symbols are shown with decorative tracery ornamentation. The parable of the wise and foolish virgins is depicted on the reveal of the walled up choir arch .
Furnishing
The high altar was created in 1791 by the carpenter Leonhard Bacher and the sculptor Friedrich Wagner. The four-column structure is decorated with the latest rococo forms and side figures of the princes of the apostles . The side altars were designed around 1730 as concave columns retable with side figures and show Saints Catherine and Margareta in the north and Saints Sebastian and Florian in the south.
The pulpit dates from the second half of the 17th century and is decorated with figures of the evangelists between winding columns.
An expressive crucifix from the mid-18th century is attached to the south wall of the nave . The copper baptismal font dates from the 16th century and is decorated with a relief of the Annunciation.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03118-0 , p. 138.
- Mathias Conrad: Late Gothic frescoes in Ehenfeld. In: amberg information , February 1991, pp. 6-8.
