St. Bartholomew (Schauenstein)

Bartholomäus Church in Schauenstein

The parish church of St. Bartholomew is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the center of the town of Schauenstein in the Upper Franconian district of Hof .

The Bartholomäuskirche is located directly below Schloss Schauenstein and was founded as its chapel. The church burned down several times. The current building is a hall church .

The pulpit altar belongs to the margrave style and , like the organ case, was made by the Knoll family of sculptors .

The oldest epitaph is that of Jörg von Schirnding († 1493), bailiff of Schauenstein with a circumferential minuscule inscription and a central coat of arms, the family coat of arms with the lion .

The church belongs to the ensemble of the city center and is an architectural monument and a ground monument.

literature

Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Naila district . In: The art monuments of Bavaria , short inventories, XVII. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1963, pp. 55–59.

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