St. Egidius (Rothhausen, Protestant)
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Aegidius is located in Rothhausen , a district of the Thundorf municipality in Lower Franconia in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . It is dedicated to St. Aegidius . The parish Rothenhausen heard since 2013 as well as that of Maßbach , Volkershausen , Poppenlauer and Thundorf for Lutheran parish Lauertal in the dean's office Schweinfurt .
The church is one of the Thundorf architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-157-24 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
Another church of the same name is located in Rothhausen, the Roman Catholic St. Giles Church , which was built in 1924 .
history
Today's Protestant St. Agidius Church was the town's simultaneous church until the Catholic St. Agidius Church was built in Rothhausen in 1924.
The core of the choir tower of the church building , designed as a hall , dates from the 14th century. Since Rothhausen, unlike Thundorf and Theinfeld , did not have a fortified castle, the church was a fortified church as a place of refuge in the event of an attack and, accordingly, its first complex was probably built in the manner of a castle. As the sandstone tablet on the upper floor of the tower indicates, the tower was raised in 1608; in this context it got its current form of a Julius-Echter-Tower .
The baptismal font of the church dates from 1585 and contains a figure depicting the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist . The wooden figure carved in the lively forms of the late baroque was probably created by a rural woodcarver.
In 1713 the organ of the Thundorfer Bergkirche was purchased for the St. Giles Church. But since it was damaged and therefore hardly playable, the organ builder Nied from Oberlauringen was commissioned to build a new organ in 1717 . This had to be repaired in 1817 and again in 1830. In 1915 the organ was abandoned because it was unusable; individual components had to be delivered for war purposes. The harmonium passed into Catholic ownership and is now in the former town hall. The present organ of the Protestant church was built in 1935 by the Holländer company from Feuchtwangen .
An inscription above the entrance to the sacristy reminds of its extension in 1735.
The last enlargement of the church took place in 1770 with the new construction of today's longer nave ; in the process the church lost the character of a fortified church and took on its present form. When the nave was built, one of the four windows was bricked up and today forms the entrance to the bell tower.
The high altar of the Protestant St. Agidius Church stood in the choir of the old church and was purchased in 1790 under Pastor Gottfried Wiedemann. The altar was already damaged 60 years later and could only be repaired after extensive correspondence with the authorities. The classicist furnishings of the altar date from the 1860s. In 1924 the high altar was moved to the Catholic Church of St. Giles.
The pews and the pulpit were built in the 18th century and are said to come from the former Bildhausen monastery . The inscription “Anno 1785 Schultheis Melchior Memmel” suggests the founder of the benches. The benches were renewed in 1956.
The wooden pulpit shows elements of the Franconian plait style and the Schönborn style . At the pulpit is a picture of St. Giles, framed by garlands of leaves; on the curved lid of the pulpit an angel hovering on clouds holds the two tablets of the law in his hands. The four evangelist symbols ( angel , lion , bull , eagle ) are said to have been on the body of the pulpit until around 1930 .
A wooden figure of St. Aegidius made by an unknown carver was originally in the nave of the church. The Aegidius figure was also taken over into the Catholic St. Aegidius Church in 1924.
In 1955 and 1956, a major renovation of the church took place in cooperation with the State Office for Monument Preservation .
literature
- Rainer Schüler: The architectural and field monuments of the Thundorf community in the districts of Thundorf, Theinfeld and Rothhausen , 1981, pp. 88-94
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Gröber: The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg , Issue 10, Bad Kissingen, 1914, p. 216
- ^ Pastor Bub: Parish book of Thundorf , 1865, with many old documents, archive of the evang.-luth. Parish office Thundorf i. U., No. 3, p. 8
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 45.3 ″ E