St. Agatha (Neuhaus)

The Church of St. Agatha in Neuhaus

The St. Agatha Church is a Roman Catholic church in Neuhaus , a district of the town of Windischeschenbach in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab in the northern Upper Palatinate .

History and description

In Neuhaus near Windischeschenbach, after the town was founded in 1393, a small chapel dedicated to Saint Agatha was built. This church was completely destroyed in the great fire in 1662, in which almost the entire place burned down. Only about 90 years later in 1751 and in 1752 a new church designed by the monastery architect of the monastery Waldsassen , Philipp Muttone built. After a fire on June 17, 1887, the turret was rebuilt and the outer walls were raised by about two meters. The previous wooden ceiling was replaced by a brick vault and new interior furnishings were purchased. The three altars were made in 1760 by Johann Peter Pacher and come from the Katharinenkirche in Amberg .

Eight images in the vault of the church represent: the inclusion of Saint Agatha in the sky, the St. Francis receiving the stigmata , the St. Joseph with the Child Jesus , St. John maintains a sick person , the Holy Aloysius , the Saint Monica , the St. Peter and Saint Anthony . At the bottom of the first picture is the year 1898.

The 14 stations of the cross are painted on canvas and come from the painter Ernstberger from Regensburg. It can be assumed that this painter created the entire pictorial decoration of the church. Today's altarpiece comes from the native Neuhauser painter Leo Steinhauser and was installed in the 1960s.

literature

• Sixtus Lampl: Upper Palatinate . In: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monuments in Bavaria . Administrative districts. tape III . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52394-5 .

Web links

Commons : St. Agatha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the parish of Neuhaus

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Windischeschenbach: History of the city - Neuhaus
2. ↑ Neuhaus parish: St. Agatha ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 53.6 ″  E