St. Bartholomew (Bergtheim)
St. Bartholomäus is a Catholic parish church in Bergtheim in the Lower Franconian district of Würzburg and is registered under the number D-6-79-117-5 in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn began the construction of a new parish church on August 7, 1604, which was consecrated in 1607 by Auxiliary Bishop Eucharius Sang . In 1845 an expansion took place under Pastor Joseph Anton Viktor Kuhn.
Today's church was built according to plans by master builder Hans Skull and consecrated on August 30, 1964 by Bishop Josef Stangl . The tower of the old church was preserved for monument conservation reasons.
Interior
The baptismal font in the baptistery in the tower bears the year 1536. The tower window and the light strips in the interior were made by the Würzburg painter Curd Lessig.
The cross above the altar and the tabernacle column were created by Bergtheim artist Karl Hornung. The ambo and altar are made of solid black shell limestone .
The statues of the three figures of St. Peter , Christ Salvator and St. Paul, from the side altars those of Our Lady and St. Bartholomew as church patron . Its attributes, knives and stars, can be found in the municipal coat of arms of Bergtheim.
organ
The organ with electric action was delivered in 1965 by the "Orgelbauanstalt Gustav Weiß Zellingen". On the east wall of the church there is a platform on both sides of the tower on which the two-part organ is positioned.
It has 18 sounding registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal , with the "main work" on the left and the "upper work" on the right of the organist. The instrument has the following disposition :
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 1 free combination, tutti, roller on, crescendo roller
Bells
The church has four bells. Two bells were cast by the Klaus bell foundry in Heidingsfeld in 1911 . The other two were procured from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen near Bremen for the inauguration in 1964. The tone sequence is d ′ - f ′ - g ′ - a ′.
literature
- St. Bartholomew Bergtheim. Ed .: Catholic Parish Office Bergtheim. Bergtheim 1964.
- 40/400 Bergtheim Church / 40 years of new church construction - 400 years of the Echterkirche - laying of the foundation stone. Ed .: Working group for local history in the northern district of Würzburg e. V., Bergtheim 2004.
Web links
- Parish of Bergtheim
- St. Bartholomäus Bergtheim in the Würzburgwiki
- Twelve ringing of the bells on Bavarian radio
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://geodaten.bayern.de/denkmal_static_data/externe_denkmalliste/pdf/denkmalliste_merge_679117.pdf
- ↑ http://www.wuerzburgwiki.de/wiki/Eucharius_sang
- ↑ http://wuerzburgwiki.de/wiki/Bergtheim#Wappendeutung
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '54.9 " N , 10 ° 4' 5.7" E