St. Boniface (Rannungen)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Bonifatius is located in Rannungen , a community in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen .
The church is one of the architectural monuments in Rannungen and is registered under the number D-6-72-143-1 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
The first reliable evidence of the St. Boniface Church as a parish church dates from 1187; possibly it was already in the 8th / 9th Built in the 18th century by monks from the Fulda monastery.
The church was rebuilt in 1588 under the Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . From this initial phase of the church only the walls of the church tower , originally designed as a pointed Julius Echter tower , have been preserved; underneath are the remains of the foundations of the medieval predecessor church. Under Prince-Bishop Greiffenclau , a new nave was built in the Baroque style in 1716, which initially had three window axes (master builder Joseph Greissing ). Only ten years later, in 1726, the tower was damaged in a fire in the local bakery and in 1731 it was restored in its current pointed dome shape ( Welsche hood ). The church clock was also destroyed and replaced. When the church had become too small at the beginning of the 20th century, it was expanded in 1912/13 with a transverse building around two window axes facing west. The old baroque main portal made of sandstone was moved with this extension, the stuccoing of the interior was completely redesigned.
Equipment, bells, tower clock
The main part of the furnishings dates from the Baroque period: the high altar with the awakening of Lazarus , two side altars as well as a large number of wooden sculptures (statues) and 15 painted stations of the cross. The renaissance pulpit with inlays seems to come from the previous church, certainly also the Romanesque font.
In addition to the master builders, only two artists are known by name who worked for the Rension Church: the famous Swiss painter Paul von Deschwanden was commissioned to paint two paintings for the side altars around 1880 on the occasion of a redesign of the interior. After he had made the first drafts ( Herz Jesu or Herz Mariä ), he died in 1881, so that the project was broken and instead wooden sculptures were inserted into the altars ( Christ the King and Immaculate ).
When the church was extended with a transverse building in 1912/13, the entire ceiling was also given a new stucco; In addition, a cycle of paintings by Hans Bayerlein (Bamberg) was inserted into the stucco cartouches. The pictures primarily show the life story of the church patron St. Boniface, as well as evangelists and angels. This cycle is very much based on the paintings from the Munich Abbey of Sankt Bonifaz , which Professor Heinrich von Hess had painted and which were destroyed when Munich was destroyed in World War II.
In 1949 the interior was temporarily whitewashed and the church was systematically renovated in 1966/67. During this renovation, the dark tones of the Last Supper painting became the focus of interest, the origin of which could not be determined at first. The picture, acquired by the pastor Schmitt in Ranning as part of the church expansion in 1912/13, turned out to be a copy of a Florentine original made by the Munich court painter August Wolff . Restored, it was the after the bombing of Würzburg on March 16, 1945 rebuilt Wuerzburg Cathedral provided loan to where it as altarpiece is used in the southern side altar.
In return, the St. Boniface Church in Rension received a painting by Rubens' pupil Oswald Onghers from the Würzburg Cathedral .
Only the small bronze bell has survived from the original bell from the construction period (1716); the other bells had to be melted down for armament purposes during World War II. In 1948, the chiming was supplemented by three newly cast iron chilled cast iron bells that had been cast in Bockenem (Harz). The ringing has the unusual sequence of tones: gs ′ - as ′ - cis ″ - dis ″.
A tower clock has been documented since the 16th century. When the broken bell was cast over in 1920, a new tower clock was installed again. When a modern clock was installed in 1983, it was given a third dial.
organ
There has been an organ in the parish church since 1716 at the latest. Today's organ goes back to a new building (1859) by the organ builder Caspar Schlimbach from Königshofen . When the church was expanded in 1912/13, the organ was thoroughly renovated by organ builder Eduard Hofmann from Hofheim , so that a new organ was created. Later small renovations (mainly by the Hochrein company in Münnerstadt ) were added. The simple, originally neo-Gothic case was decorated with neo-baroque carvings around 1932. The organ currently has the following disposition :
| I. Manual (main work) | II. Manual (positive) | pedal |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bourdun 16 ′ | 10. Gedackt 8 ′ | 16. Choral bass 4 ′ |
| 2. Principal 8 ′ | 11. Salicional 8 ′ | 17. Octavbass 8 ′ |
| 3. Gamba 8 ′ | 12. prefix 4 ′ | 18. Violon 16 ′ |
| 4. Gemshorn 8 ′ | 13th night horn 2 ′ | 19. Sub-bass 16 ′ |
| 5th octave 4 ′ | 14. Cymbel 1 ′ 2f. | |
| 6th flute 4 ′ | 15. Trumpet 8 ′ | |
| 7. Rohrquint 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′ | ||
| 8. Flageolet 2 ′ | ||
| 9. Mixture 1 ′ 4f. |
Playing aids: Coupling II / I, I / P, II / P; automatic pedal switching; fixed combinations ff, mf, pp;
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, reviewed and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 870
- Hermann Fischer : The organs of the Bad Kissingen district , 1986
- Alfred Memmel: Rannungen 772-1972 , 1972
- Werner Eberth : Prince-Bishop Julius Echter and his building inscriptions - A PR gag of the 17th century , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2017, p. 42f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 0.4 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 17.3 ″ E