St. Aegidius (Ebnath)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Egidius in the center of Ebnath (Kirchweg 5) is under the patronage of St. Egidius .
history
A church in Ebnath is mentioned for the first time in 1179 in a code of the Reichenbach monastery . After that, the Regensburg Bishop Konrad II. Of Raitenbuch following the inauguration of the monastery church of Waldsassen on 12 June 1179 by Ebenöde go and at the request of Diepoldsberg the Younger opened the local church. More detailed information about this church is missing, it is assumed that it was the castle chapel of Veste Ebnath .
In the 15./16. In the 16th century, the Hirschbergers rebuilt the church in connection with the transfer of parish rights from Mehlmeisel to Ebnath, although at least the floor plan of the older church has been handed down.
There was a dispute with the diocese of Regensburg , which insisted that a parish in Ebnath was not established until 1815 and that Joseph Hopf was appointed as the first pastor on April 29, 1815. Until then, Ebnath had belonged to the parish of Kulmain and had been a parish curate. In contrast to this, the von Hirschbergs claimed that Ebnath had been a parish much earlier and had granted them the right of patronage . Paul von Hirschfeld , who died in 1512, had "already endowed a whole Hoff and Guth during his lifetime to entertain him [meaning the pastor] and a pastor's apartment". In addition, the Hirschberger transferred the parish rights from Mehlmeisel to Ebnath in 1539 and thus made Ebnath a parish. Another reference to the former parish of Ebnath can be found in the diocesan registers, in which a copy from the Salbuch from 1663 is handed down, in which it says that “the little Kurchlein Ebnath so sambt the Steinach branch has 800 confessors, is anno Separated from Culmain in 1664 and handed over to the former provisional M. Joann Stoll by HM Georgius Reiss pt Pastor of Kulmain ”. The government of the Upper Palatinate also recognized the Jus patronatus of the Lords of Hirschberg in a letter dated January 21, 1777 .
During the Reformation , Lutheranism was introduced here based on the principle of " Cuius regio, eius religio ". The first Protestant pastor was Conrad Reutter , who worked in Ebnath from 1565 to 1571, followed by Magister Georg Schönweiß from Kemnath from 1571 to 1577, who was appointed by Mathes and Jörg von Hirschberg . The third Protestant pastor was Balthasar Pitterlein , who was also appointed by the Hirschbergers. He has started to compile the parish registers for Ebnath. Then his son Johannes Pitterlein worked here from 1611 .
In the course of the Counter-Reformation Ebnath became Catholic again and the first Catholic baptism was reported here on November 10, 1627. From 1627 to 1664, Ebnath and Kulmain were provided with a pastor, who were given the title “Parochus in Culmain et Ebnath”.
building
Today's baroque church was built from 1741 to 1743 according to plans by the Amberg master mason Johann Georg Diller . It is a plastered solid building with a gable roof. The church has a choir drawn in on three sides. The barrel vault is designed with stitch caps . The nave has a flat ceiling and three window axes. The sacristy with an oratory is added to the south of the choir. The tower (28 m high) in front of the west facade is equipped with an onion dome and a lantern, on it you can find the year 1800, the year of its construction, and the inscription “Ask and you will receive”. A tombstone from 1618 by a hammer master from Ebnath is embedded in the southern outer wall.
In the new building, the cemetery around the church was abandoned and burials took place only in the outer cemetery. This was expanded several times (1724, 1910), with the last expansion a quarry stone wall was built around the cemetery. The morgue was inaugurated on November 8, 1959 and the cemetery was handed over to the community for management on January 1, 1978. Archaeological findings from the Middle Ages and the early modern period have been secured in the area of the parish church, including traces of previous buildings or older building phases.
Interior
The high altar was made in 1753 by the master joiner Johann Eckhmann von Kemnath and the sculptor Johann Georg Veldt von Auerbach . It has two smooth and two winding pillars. The altar leaves show St. Aegidius and in the essay St. Georg , both designed by Johann David Radius from Oberröslau . The side figures represent Peter and Paul. The side altars (around 1740) have winding columns with foliage and ribbon work. The altarpiece of the so-called women's altar (copy of Our Lady after Lucas Cranach the Younger , left) also comes from the aforementioned artist Radius (1761). Two confessionals with rich carvings (1752) and the Way of the Cross (1755) are also from him. The right side altar is dedicated to the Holy Trinity .
The font is made of sandstone and dates from the first half of the 17th century. It has a baptismal bowl and an ornamented baluster foot . The wooden lid comes from the baroque period.
A silver and partially gilded monstrance is kept in the church, depicting scenes from the life of Christ. It was donated by Georg Carl Adam von Hirschberg in 1753. A chalice is of the same design. Another monstrance dates from 1699 and shows Saints Aegidius and Saint Dionysius of Augsburg to the left and right of the case .
literature
- Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. Volume X. Kemnath District Office. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1982 (unchanged reprint of the 1907 edition). ISBN 3-486-50440-1 .
- Hans Müller-Ihl: Hofmark Ebnath. Home on the upper Fichtelnaab. Ebnath community administration, Coburg 1979.
- Edmund Prechtl: History of the parish Ebnath. In Müller-Ihl (1979), pp. 123-208.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '4.2 " N , 11 ° 56" 24.4 " E