St. Aegidius (Windheim)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Egidius is located in Windheim , a district of the municipality of Wartmannsroth in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . The church and is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Aegidius .
The church is one of the architectural monuments of Wartmannsroth and is registered under the number D-6-72-161-19 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
Windheim initially belonged to the Wolfsmünster parish as a branch . The first Church in Windheim was built by Philipp von Thüngen in 1546 for the Protestant believers in accordance with the characteristics of the place. As the only Protestant church in the region, it was visited by Protestants from the region up to the Rhön . At the same time as the first church was built, Windheim became its own parish.
In the course of the Counter Reformation , Windheim returned to the Catholic parish of Diebach on August 28, 1628 and to the first parish of Wolfmünster in 1687. The Protestant church was replaced by a new building designed by the master builder Johann Christoph Kleinholz in 1765/66 by the Würzburg Juliusspital .
In 1811 Windheim was promoted to a curate and in 1848 again to a - this time a Catholic - parish.
description
The four-storey church tower with an onion dome juts out from the curved north facade of the nave . The nave has three window axes and a stucco ceiling . The southern choir begins with a cross vault yoke and is closed on three sides.
Furnishing
The interior was designed by Peter Wagner around 1770. While the high altar built by Peter Wagner fell victim to a fire in 1867, the pulpit carved by him is still preserved. The current high altar came from Hammelburg to Windheim in 1879 and, like the burned down altar, contains a crucifixion group . It was built around 1680 in the baroque style .
The side altars were given a Sacred Heart figure in 1909 (left) and a figure of Mary in 1911 (right).
The organ was before the double centrally in 1770 as a used instrument empore in a housing 1780 attached.
The church has three bells, one cast in 1928 and two added in 1960.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 1122
- Michael Rotschedl: Church leader of the parish community "Am Sturmiusberg" , Upper Franconian Postcard Publishing House Bouillon Bayreuth, 2014
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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 41.3 " N , 9 ° 50 ′ 20.8" E