St. Bartholomew (Kalsing)
St. Bartholomäus - also known as Kalsing Castle Chapel - in Kalsing, which belongs to Roding, is a branch church of the Roman Catholic Rodingen parish church of St. Pankratius .
Buildings and history
As a castle chapel, the church belonged to the castle in Kalsing, inhabited in 1135 by Otto de Chalbezzingen, a ministerial of the Diepoldinger Rapotonen , Margrave of Cham in the Upper Palatinate . Only remains of the castle are preserved. The chapel was originally consecrated to St. James the Elder , and it was only later that today's church patron St. Bartholomew took its place . For parish Roding heard it since the late 14th century.
The Romanesque hall church , which has a flat roof , has a gable roof and a non-retracted choir with a barrel vault . Both nave and choir are dated to the 12th century, but have undergone extensive changes since then. The access to the little church on the south side dates from the 14th or 15th century. The windows that are visible today were broken into the walls in the Baroque period , the turret with onion dome comes from the same period. A small apse on the east side was added at the turn of the 20th century. The chapel is assigned to the Romanesque country churches with a secular upper floor , even if no traces of a possible upper floor have been secured. However, the allocation seems justified based on the regional accumulation of this type of church and the assumed spatial necessities.
Furnishing
The main altar in neo-baroque style shows the church patron St. Bartholomäus with the gospel book and - as a symbol of his martyrdom - a knife. The side altars - neo-Romanesque style - have depictions of the Heart of Jesus and Mary Immaculate . The angel frescos next to the crucifix above the choir arch are also more recent and imitate Romanesque models in a neo-Romanesque manner.
literature
- W. Straßer: The former castle chapel in Kalsing . In: Die Oberpfalz , vol. 59, year 1971, pp. 221–223
Web links
- Medieval castle stable with the Catholic side church and the former castle chapel of St. Bartholomew in Kalsing . Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- Kalsing Castle Chapel . City of Roding
- Entry by Bernhard Ernst zu Kalsing in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 44.8 ″ N , 12 ° 32 ′ 33.7 ″ E