St. Andreas (Kalchreuth)
The Protestant Church of St. Andreas is a Gothic hall church in Kalchreuth in the Erlangen-Höchstadt district in Middle Franconia . It belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Kalchreuth in the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Bavaria .
History and architecture
The church has been attested for the first time since 1390 and is mentioned as a place of grace in 1502. The nave was built in 1471, the choir in 1494 and the tower only in 1788/1789. During a renovation in 1979, the nave floor was raised. The exterior is characterized by additions to the north, including the baroque church tower; buttresses are attached to the choir. The retracted choir, closed on three sides, is provided with a ribbed vault, the nave with a wooden mirror vault and wooden double galleries.
Furnishing
The equipment has been preserved in a unique completeness. The artistically valuable high altar is an extensive work allegedly donated in 1498 by the Wohlgemuth workshop. In the shrine he shows sculptural figures of the Madonna with the Saints Andreas , Wolfgang , Petrus and Ursula under canopies with tendrils. The inner wings show reliefs with scenes from the life of the Virgin Mary, the outer and inactive wings show twelve depictions of the Passion. In high conversation Enge is on the Holy Magnus , Martin and James the Elder to see the Risen One, in the predella figures of the apostles, the Church Fathers , saints and founders. The wood carving is attributed to Veit Stoss' workshop.
The left side altar, the Maria Selbdritt altar, is a winged altar from a Nuremberg workshop from 1561 and is attributed to the master of the Martha altar. The paintings are designed in the manner of Wolf Traut . The wooden figures include a Madonna from the late 15th century, a Pietà from the years 1495–1500 and a Saint James the Elder from the years 1510–1520. The clay figures of the seated twelve apostles from the years 1380–1390, which may have come from a workshop in Lower Bavaria, are also of particular importance.
The unusually richly designed tabernacle was donated in 1498 and comes from the workshop of Adam Kraft , without whose tabernacle of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg this work would be inconceivable . The richly designed pulpit is a work from 1693. A painting of the former southern side altar of Nuremberg origin possibly comes from the workshop of Pleydenwurff the Younger from around 1490/1500 and depicts saints. Century shows a depiction of the death of Mary with the kneeling donor family. A Flemish carpet from around 1470–1480 shows Our Lady. A frieze-like wall hanging from the second half of the 15th century is decorated with embroidered depictions from the Old Testament. Numerous cabinet disks , mostly with coats of arms, are associated with Veit Hirschvogel the Elder. There are also several death shields from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century.
The organ is a work by GF Steinmeyer & Co. from 1907 with 11 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 502–503.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '27 " N , 11 ° 7' 57.1" E