St. Andreas (Selb)
The Protestant town church St. Andreas is a neo-Gothic basilica in Selb , a town in the district of Wunsiedel in Bavaria . The church belongs to the parish of Bayreuth of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .
location
The Pfarrstraße leads from the north into the historic town center and continues there in an easterly direction. To the south lies parallel street Pfaffenleithe , which is connected to the west by Martin-Luther-Platz and to the east with Ottostraße and Pfarrstraße. The church stands in the middle of an elevated plot that is not fenced in .
history
As early as 1310, a branch church of Aš was first mentioned in a document in Selb . In the 15th century a Gothic town church was built in the village , which was included in the Reformation in 1528 . The building was destroyed in the great city fire in March 1856. According to plans by the Munich architect August von Voit , work began on a new building at the same location in 1859. The consecration took place on December 6, 1863.
Building description
The building was essentially made of bricks , which were then plastered . The choir has moved in and has a five-eighth closing . In the lower area of each segment there are two large, domed, pointed arch windows, the walls of which are framed in sandstone . Above it is a cornice and three significantly smaller pointed arch windows. The fields are stabilized by double-stepped buttresses .
This is followed by seven includes yoke long nave on. It is shaped like a basilica. On the east wall of the side aisles there is a small pointed arch window each in the north and south, above it in the gable a small ox eye . There is also an ox-eye in the gable of the central nave. The north wall is also divided by two-step buttresses between the individual yokes. In each field there is a large, multi-part tracery window consisting of two coupled nuns 'heads in the lower area and three larger nuns' heads in the upper area. In the third yoke there is a large portal in place of the lower window. In the upper storey there are four small pointed arch windows. The south wall is built uniformly with large tracery windows between buttresses. The west wall is extremely richly structured. In the center there are two pointed arch-shaped, multi-profiled portals provided with fighters , which can be reached via a staircase. Above that is another tracery followed by two more tracery windows. In the gable there are two four-pass openings, above them a frieze that opens downwards . On the side aisles there are two small tracery windows, which are embedded in an ogival panel with a tracery window above. Above a cornice is an ox-eye adorned with four- and three-passes and another frieze.
At the north-west corner of the nave - in the seventh yoke - is the 48 m high church tower . It has a square floor plan and can be entered from the east through a gate. Above that, on each of the three accessible sides, there is a rectangular panel with a small pointed arch window. In the middle floor there is another pointed arch window, above it a tower clock. Above is a tower tower with a walkway that merges into an octagonal tower spire that ends with a cross.
Furnishing
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The altar was also made of sandstone. On it is an altarpiece by the painter Julius Mebold from the Nuremberg Art School. The painting in the neo-renaissance style shows the resurrection of Christ . In the choir there are still stained glass windows showing Simon Petrus , Paulus von Tarsus and the apostles Andrew and John . Further medallions in the windows show Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , as well as the Margrave Georg von Bayreuth and Maximilian II , who had campaigned for the reconstruction of the church. Side windows from the 20th century are installed below the double lofts , which stand on cast-iron pillars. In the triumphal arch hangs a larger than life crucifix , which was created by the sculptor Karl Kroher from Munich . The church also features a late Gothic Madonna with Child Jesus and two lecture crosses that were saved from the previous building that had burned down. The cross from 1742 stands next to the side portal, a somewhat younger cross on the side pulpit. In 1924 the parish had six epitaphs from the 17th century transported from the outer wall of the Gottesackerkirche into the building.
On the western gallery there is an organ by Heinrich Keller from 1941. The instrument has three manuals and 2,711 organ pipes . The balustrades of the galleries are decorated with tracery that comes from the iron foundry in Martinlamitz .
A memorial to the north of the building commemorates those who died in the Wars of Liberation .
literature
- Information board of the Evangelical City Church St. Andreas Selb with a text by Volker Pröbstl, put up at the church, February 2020.
Web links
- Stadtkirche Selb , website of the Stadtkirche Selb, accessed on February 20, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Selb, Germany (Bavaria) - Evangelical Lutheran City Church , website Orgelbase, accessed on February 20, 2020.
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 11.7 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 57.7 ″ E