Rottendorf (Schmidgaden)
The independent municipality of Rottendorf was dissolved in the municipality of Schmidgaden on January 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform . In 1980 Rottendorf won the title of "Most Beautiful Village" in the Upper Palatinate .
Monuments
The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation only maintains a few monuments for the former municipality of Rottendorf. The cemetery chapel from the Romanesque art-historical era is particularly important . The number of wrought iron grave crosses in the cemetery is unusual for the region. The core of the cemetery wall is medieval. A Gothic robe portal has been preserved on the village side .
In the village itself there is a farmhouse on Hohersdorfer Straße from the beginning of the 18th century that is a listed building. The chamfered arched entrance from the time of its creation is emphasized.
About one kilometer to the west, on Grümmerbach, you will find an 18th century chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene .
Rottendorf on a votive picture from the 18th century
Medieval cemetery wall with a Gothic archway
Cemetery and Romanesque cemetery chapel with a Gothic Pietà
Catholic parish church of St. Andrew
According to the epitaph, the Gothic choir tower church was redesigned by local masters between 1764 and 1766 at the instigation of Pastor Georg Peter Ströhl. The pointed arched sound windows of the medieval complex have been partially preserved on the tower.
The four-bay nave has a barrel vault . The stucco ceiling painting of the Baroque shows the vocation of Peter in the main area and scenes from the lives of Peter, Paul and St. Andrew in the corners. Main and side altars as well as the pulpit can already be attributed to the Rococo . The organ from the second quarter of the 18th century was taken over from the parish church of Kösching near Ingolstadt in the 19th century .
It is unusual that there is no epitaph of the surrounding nobility in the church.
Cemetery chapel (Karner)
The cemetery chapel is a Romanesque building, probably from the 13th century. Since 1958 it has been used as a memorial for those who fell in the First and Second World Wars. On the outer wall is a sandstone Pietà with the year 1421. The entrance was redesigned in the 18th century.
It is a two-storey rotunda, with the lower storey serving as a karner . The basement is below ground level. Around 1900 the original floor made of reading stones was still there. It can be entered via an arched corridor that ends at the cemetery wall.
The type of the cemetery chapel corresponds to that of Perschen .
Soil monuments
About 800 meters west of the village is an unexplored medieval castle stables . In the immediate vicinity, on the connecting road to Littenhof , a settlement of prehistoric times or the early Middle Ages is assumed.
literature
- The art monuments of the Upper Palatinate, Vol. 18: District Office Nabburg . 2nd edition 1983. pp. 99f
- Matthias Senft: Monograph on Rottendorf , in: Negotiations of the Historical Association of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 1845
