St. Bartholomew (Leutershausen)

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The Church of St. Bartholomew in Leutershausen
Interior of the church

The Roman Catholic Kuratiekirche St. Bartholomäus is the village church of Leutershausen, a district of Hohenroth in the Lower Franconian district of Rhön-Grabfeld . It is dedicated to the Apostle Bartholomew . Leutershausen is part of the parish community "Don Bosco Am Salzforst". Parts of the church's furnishings belong to the architectural monuments of Hohenroth and are registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-73-135-11 .

history

The curate Leutershausen belonged to the parish Brendlorenzen . The old church, built in 1802, was demolished and rebuilt in the Franconian Open Air Museum in Fladungen . The present church was built in 1992 in the same place.

Description and equipment

The church is a tent-shaped building on a square floor plan. The church tower stands southeast of it free over a gatehouse.

The high altar of the church from around 1730 comes from the Bildhausen monastery . In 2003 the baptistery received colored windows from the artist pastor Sieger Köder . In his typical style, they depict the themes of creation, salvation history, the Eucharist and Pentecost .

In the church tower hang five bells with the tones c´´, d´´, es´´, f´´ and g´´.

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. St. Bartholomäus on the Hohenroth homepage pdf, 0.5 MB

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 41.2 ″  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 40.9 ″  E