St. Anthony of Padua (Jelení)

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St. Antonius von Padau in Hirschenstand before 1945

The Catholic parish church of St. Anthony of Padua (Czech kostel sv. Antonína Paduánského ) in Jelení (German deer stand ) , was a late Baroque church building that was built from 1832 to 1835 and devastated in the 1960s .

history

prehistory

Hirschenstand, which had consisted of only one property for a long time, was desolate after the Thirty Years' War . According to a legend, the wife of the reformer Martin Luther, Katharina von Bora, is said to have stayed in a colliery while passing through this area, after which the district of Bora was named. In the list of lakes of the Elbogen district from 1651, the place does not appear under the rule of Neudek . In the following years it was repopulated by converted miners from Trinksaifen and grew into a larger settlement. Until 1783 the village was a branch of the parish district St. Martin in Neudek . In order to attend mass, the parishioners had to walk the difficult route to Neudek, especially in winter. In 1773 a settlement was reached with the pastor von Frühbuss , who from now on carried out baptisms and visits to the sick in the villages of Hirschenstand and Neuhaus, which belong to the parish of Neudek .

Previous construction

The town, which had grown large over time, required its own place of worship. A first little church under the patronage of St. Anthony of Padua was created in 1779 on the site of the old cemetery. The client was the owner of Neudek Graf Ludwig Hartig , who also had the right of patronage . The administration took place from Neudek. The first own administrator, Caspar Molitor, moved into the old rectory on November 14, 1782. In 1784 the village had 84 houses with all Catholic residents. Hirschenstand was raised to its own parish on September 25, 1786 under the chaplain Gottfried Pohl. The neighboring village of Neuhaus and part of Sauersack were included in the parish .

New building

Interior view before 1945
Church location today

On July 24, 1821, the Oberstburggraf Karl Graf Chotek visited the church and found that it was close to collapse. At the request of the population, a new building was finally approved. The foundation stone was laid in the town center in 1832. The plans for the building came from an unknown architect. The consecration took place on October 19, 1835 by District Vicar Anton Melzer. In 1914 the church received a new organ from the Prague organ builder Heinrich Schiffner . In 1930 the parish numbered 1,131 Catholics and 71 non-Catholics. The last pastor was Anton Holick from Bruck until 1945/46.

demolition

After the expulsion of the German population at the end of the war in 1945/46, the church gradually fell into disrepair. The interior was completely demolished. The former church then served as a makeshift cowshed for ten years. The roof shingles were taken down and made into firewood. In 1955 the place lost the status of a municipality. In the 1960s, the ruins were blown up by Czech soldiers and the area, including the cemetery, was leveled. The bulldozers uncovered coffins and skeletal remains. After the political change in 1989, a memorial was erected on the site of the missing church by former German residents of Hirschenstand and Neuhaus and was inaugurated on May 15, 1993.

description

The single-nave church, with a rectangular nave, ended with a semicircular presbytery . The side walls of the presbytery were interrupted by narrow semicircular windows. The prismatic bell tower above the entrance to the northwest front was crowned with an onion dome with a hexagonal lantern and a two-armed cross at the top. There was a sacristy on the north side of the presbytery. The rectangular portal on the south side served as a side entrance. The interior was kept in the classicism style.

Surroundings

A cemetery belonged to the church. A first burial place was possibly created in connection with the great famine and plague epidemic in the years 1771 to 1772, which killed around 2000 people in the Neudek parish and required their own cemetery in the Neuhammer, Trinksaifen and Hirschenstand branches. Sometimes the dead were buried behind their own houses. In the second half of the 19th century a new school and parish building was built below the church. In order to maintain the small parish meadow, some landowners had to deliver a certain amount of hay to the parish every year.

Pastor

  • Möschel
  • Weigl
  • Ferdinand Záruba
  • Josef Kopecký
  • Josef Schmiedl
  • Johann Hamerpl
  • Johann Lang
  • Johann Beck
  • Johann Dürmuth
  • Anton Holick

literature

  • Ulrich Möckel : Deer stand. Disappeared from the map but not forgotten! U. Möckel (self-published), Schönheide 2005.

Web links

Commons : St. Anthony of Padua  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia, Joseph-Virgil; Schlesinger Grohmann (Ludwig; Schmalfuss A ...): Mittheilungen of the association for the history of the Germans in Bohemia . Brockhaus, 1870 ( google.de [accessed January 27, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Josef František Jaroslav Schaller: Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia: it describes all cities, towns, lordships, castles, country estates, noble residences, monasteries, villages, as well as dilapidated castles and cities under their former and current names, including their peculiarities. Elbow Circle. Second part . in the kk Normalbuchdruckerei, 1785 ( google.de [accessed on January 27, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Josef Pilz: History of the city of Neudek . Stadtgemeinde, 1923 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Latest country and ethnology. A geographical reader for all stands . Diesbach, 1832 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Josef František Jaroslav Schaller: Topography of the Kingdom of Bohemia: it describes all cities, towns, lordships, castles, country estates, noble residences, monasteries, villages, as well as dilapidated castles and cities under their former and current names, including their peculiarities. Elbow Circle. Second part . in the kk Normalbuchdruckerei, 1785 ( google.de [accessed on January 27, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Elbogner Kreis: 15 . Ehrlich, 1847 ( google.de [accessed November 30, 2019]).
  7. ^ Genealogy: Bohemia, Sudetenland, Parish Books, Hirschenstand, Neudek. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Jaroslav Vyčichlo: Jelení - kostel sv. Antonína Paduánského | Památky a příroda Karlovarska. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Kronika farnosti | Porta fontium. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 13.8 ″  E