St. Bartholomew (Přebuz)

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The parish church of St. Bartholomew (Czech Kostel sv. Bartoloměje ) in the Czech city of Přebuz (German early penance) is a late Baroque church building that was built between 1779 and 1787 and has been a protected cultural monument since 1958.

history

Previous construction

Today's church is probably already the third sacred building in early penance. According to the local court book of 1543, there was in Frühbuß, which formerly belonged to the parish of Neudek and then to the parish of Heinrichsgrün , in 1555 its own church or chapel (according to other information as early as 1500). Possibly the existence of a first house of worship in early penance could be set even earlier. This is indicated by a late Gothic baptismal font from the 15th century and the alleged year the mining settlement was founded in 1347. In the years 1567 and 1586 a parish or parsonage is also mentioned. Since when the church has been under the patronage of Heil. Apostle Bartholomew is not known. As early as 1552, Count Viktorin Schlick I had a Lutheran preacher installed here with Johannes Frentzel from Lößnitz . The old church with the surrounding cemetery must have been on the property of house number 162, as evidenced by construction work on the site where human bones and skeletons were found.

A second church was built around 1578. In the entries in the local court book of August 24, 1578, Georg Lorenz was awarded a piece of parish land for a new church on the orders of Count Viktorin Schlick II with the knowledge and will of the court and the four quarter masters. On October 1, 1606, the then landlord Niklas von Globen appointed Master Adam Zephelius from Falkenau to the preaching office of Frühbuss and Schönlind . In the course of the Counter-Reformation , with the expulsion of the last Protestant pastor Matthäus Betulius from early penance in 1624, the church was used for Catholic worship. The now Catholic parish was temporarily unoccupied and was also looked after by the Heinrichsgrün parish. However, the population initially remained predominantly Lutheran. In 1672 there were 400 "heretics" in the village, who mostly went to the Protestant churches of Klingenthal or Markneukirchen for mass, compared to only 22 "converts". This was only to change in 1679 with the employment of a pastoral care provider for early penance, Father Daniel Joseph Mayer , who succeeded in converting 394 Protestants to Catholicism by 1684. On June 17, 1766, Emperor Joseph II stayed in the local parsonage and stayed with a St. Mass in the church. Since the church and parish were dilapidated at that time, the emperor probably gave the suggestion to build a new church.

Current church building

The foundation stone for today's church building, which is located on the right side under the large gate, was laid in 1779. To commemorate this, a Marientaler and other coins were walled into a carved container made of the stone bearing the year 1779. Wenzel Krisch , who was the cantor and school supervisor at the time, was responsible for the building supervision and provided the building site from his own garden. The plans come from the master builder Johann Andreas Leistner from Falkenau. The construction costs amounted to 6541 florins and were raised by the parishes of Falkenau, Graslitz , Heinrichsgrün, Schönlind and Schönau. From the authorities, the lordship of Heinrichsgrün, only the timber to the value of 300 florins came. The construction work was not completed until 1787. During the devastating city fire of July 25, 1869, the church was unscathed. The last major renovation took place between 1936 and 1938. The exterior plaster was renewed and the shingle roof was replaced by a slate roof. After the expulsion of the German population, the church was not used for a long time and has been in need of renovation ever since. The church roof was last repaired in 1965. Due to the moisture that had entered, water and fox stains had formed inside the church. In 2012, thanks to donations from former German residents and financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the municipality, urgent renovation work was carried out on the roof. Services only take place now and then.

architecture

The church has a one-sided rectangular structure with a semicircular end of the presbytery and a rectangular sacristy. The west facade is divided by two pilasters. The portal with the year 1787 is closed with a triangular shield.

Furnishing

inside view

Inside the church there is a late Gothic stone baptismal font from the 15th century, as well as a rare Gothic polychrome crucifix from around 1500. The late Baroque main altar, donated by the citizen Franz Funk, was made in Eger. The image of St. Bartholomä was created by the painter Franz Sattler from Heinrichsgrün. The timbered pulpit came from a carpenter from Falkenau. Richard Dotzauer donated a painting showing early penance after the town fire. The baroque organ is from 1828. In the tower hangs a valuable renaissance bell made of tin bronze, which was cast in 1565 by master Wolfgang Hilger from Bärringen. It has a diameter of 650 mm and a weight of 160 kg. The inscription reads: "VERBUM DEI MANET IN AETERNUM".

Burials

In the church by the choir cell there is a granite tombstone with the signature "WKC" and the year 1779. The clergyman Wenzel Krisch, son of the cantor of the same name, who was chaplain in Neurohlau for three and a half years and died around the same time as the building, was buried there the church was started.

literature

  • Alfred Riedl: The parish early penance in the 16th and 17th centuries
  • Franz Achtner: Up there on the mountain ridge. The church chronicle of Frühbuss and the count's inn

Web links

Commons : Church of Saint Bartholomew in Přebuz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer: The Kingdom of Bohemia: Bd. Elbogner Kreis. 1847 . JG Calve, 1847 ( google.de [accessed May 1, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Technické památky: P - S. Nakl. Libri, 2003, ISBN 978-80-7277-045-8 ( google.de [accessed on May 2, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Parish early penance - GenWiki. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Communications from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia . 1918 ( google.de [accessed December 23, 2019]).