St. Aegid (Gunzendorf)

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Aegidius in the Gunzendorf district of the city of Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria goes back to the castle chapel of Gunzendorf Castle , although the castle stables that exist today are about 700 m outside Gunzendorf. The parish of St. Giles belongs to the Archdiocese of Bamberg .

history

The church was probably founded in 1145. A year earlier, at the request of Abbot Adalbert I of Michelfeld Monastery , the Eschenfelden donated by Bamberg's Bishop Egilbert had been exchanged for the Gunzenfelden estate. Presumably, the fathers of the Benedictine monastery Michelfeld, founded by Bishop Otto in 1119, held services here earlier .

On June 22, 1542 Count Palatine Ottheinrich introduced the Reformation with the religious mandate in his Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg and this was also carried out in Gunzendorf according to the principle of cuius regio, eius religio ; The Hofmarks owner from 1530 to 1548 Hans von Künsberg and his brother also converted to Lutheranism and as a result the parish remained Lutheran for almost 100 years. In the course of the Thirty Years' War the Upper Palatinate came to Elector Maximilian I , who initiated the Counter Reformation here with a hard hand . He also reinstated Catholicism among the Gunzendorf residents, with the district judge Hans Truchseß from Auerbach taking soldiers against Gunzendorf and Troschenreuth on January 15, 1629. He had the pastors there chased away and quartered around 150 soldiers in both places until the population returned to the Catholic faith.

Subsequently, the parish of Gunzendorf was not occupied for almost two centuries due to the shortage of priests; Pastoral care was taken over by the Benedictines of Michelfeld Monastery until 1700, then by the Thurndorf parish until 1741 . Then it was operated again from Michelfeld Monastery. After the abolition of the Michelfeld monastery in the course of secularization , Gunzendorf was initially taken care of by the Benedictine fathers, but on August 16, 1808 the parish became independent again. In addition to the pastor, a chaplain even worked here until 1850 , who also looked after Neukreisendorf , which is now part of Kirchenthumbach .

The last pastor of the parish Gunzendorf residing here was Anton Müller (1911–1989), now the parish is looked after by a parish administrator. From Gunzendorf there is an annual foot pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity in Gößweinstein ; the reason for this pilgrimage, which has been taking place since 1895, is not known.

Construction

The church is a plastered solid structure with a gable roof . It is a hall church , parts of the nave are Romanesque and from the middle of the 12th century. The church has a retracted Gothic choir , which was built around 1384. The ridge turret with a pointed helmet dates from 1855. The rectory belonging to the church and also a listed building was built in 1825. As part of the village renewal program, the town center with the church and rectory was redesigned and redesigned; the consecration took place on the 2014 harvest festival.

Interior

The village church of St. Giles is splendidly decorated in a baroque style. The altarpiece shows St. Aegidius . Next to it there is a portrait of St. Catherine , who is depicted in a frame richly decorated with acanthus . Also worth mentioning is a tomb with a Pietà on a granite pedestal from 1863.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish of St. Giles in the Auerbach deanery , accessed on August 7, 2020.
  2. ^ Max Piendl : Duchy of Sulzbach, District Judge Office Sulzbach . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (=  Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria Series I, Issue 10). Munich 1957, p. 60 ( digitized version [accessed July 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Gunzendorf parish looks back on 125 years of pilgrimage to Gößweinstein. Onetz from July 17, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 2.3 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 40.7 ″  E