Castle Church (Poppenreuth)
The castle church (formerly Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary ) in Poppenreuth has been secularized and serves as a parish home. The church, with a drawn-in choir room closed in five-eighths, used to have a wooden roof turret with two bells above the gable wall . The baroque door wall is marked with the year 1717; a console installed granite panel shows under a Notthafft -Vollwappen one in the lower part only difficult to decipher inscription that identifies the Baron Johann Paul Notthafft as owner of the church. The castle church was equipped with two altars. After the new church in the middle of the village was completed in 1934, these altars were transferred to the new church. The altar panel of the high altar depicts the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. Above the painting, on the beams of the altar structure, the coat of arms of the Notthracht family is shown. More splendid than the high altar, the side altar is presented as a, albeit relatively simple, representative of the acanthus altars that are still frequently found in Bohemia and the Upper Palatinate . The altarpiece, surrounded by delicate acanthus tendrils, shows the Bohemian national saint John of Nepomuk , to whom the Notthracht family often showed themselves to be closely connected. Between the altarpiece and the radiant eye of God as a symbol for the Holy Spirit, there is an oval, helmet-crowned Notthracht coat of arms in a cartridge formed from the helmet covers . On the base of the altar retabel above the predella , a cartouche with the oval alliance coat of arms of Notthracht / Sparneck refers to the donors of this altar, Johann Abraham Notthracht von Weißenstein, Johann Paul's brother, and his wife Anna Barbara von Sparneck . Both altars are attributed to the sculptor Johann Michael Doser , who was born in Auerbach .
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '52.4 " N , 12 ° 5' 21.5" E