St. Christoph (Neukirchen zu Sankt Christoph)
The listed Roman Catholic parish church of St. Christoph is located in the Neukirchen zu Sankt Christoph district of the Upper Palatinate community of Georgenberg .
history
The area of the current parish of Neukirchen zu Sankt Christoph belonged to the parish of Lennesrieth until 1685 , and in 1685 this was added to the parish of Waldthurn . In Neukirchen, Holy Mass was only held here on eight Sundays a year , the widespread parish of Waldthurn meant that "very many died without the Holy Sacraments, and pastoral care in general was poor", as the Waldthurn pastor Weinzierl notes. So it is not surprising that the Neukirchen and Georgenbergers sought their own pastor. These requests were "graciously approved" by His High Prince Philip Herzog zu Sagan and Prince Lobkowitz . On March 7, 1732, Pastor Weinzierl and the Expositus Johann Georg Eberl from the Diocese of Regensburg were given the specified "instructions" for the pastoral division of tasks and the financial security of the new Expositur. The new branch included the places Ödmühle (= Neuenhammer ), Dimpfl , Faislbach, Regberg, Waldheim, Brünst, Glashütten, Lösselmühle, Altbuchen, Böhmischdorf, Georgenberg , Gehenhammer, Krautwinkl, Pinsenstock, Ziegelhütten (= Galsterlohe ) and Waldkirch. However, the Waldheim area with the villages of Waldheim, Glashütten, Altbuchen and Böhmischdorf was under Bohemian sovereignty, but first belonged to the parish of Lennesrieth, then to the parish of Waldthurn and finally to the Neukirchen branch of Sankt Christoph and were finally added to the newly founded parish Neulosimthal in 1786 . Since there were disagreements between the pastor in Waldthurn and the Expositur in 1735, the guardianship of the still underage son of Prince Philipp Lobkowitz, who died in 1734, wanted to dissolve the Expositur on August 8, 1734 by means of a decree issued in Radaun ; the "Most Reverend Episcopal Consistory extreme opposed this and did not let the coperators expositum abolish because of the vastness of the forest".
On March 18, 1788, the previous expositur was raised to a parish (only the Hammergut Neuenhammer remained with the mother parish of Waldthurn until 1996), which was stated in a letter from Waldthurn pastor Joseph Kirchberger to the Royal General Provincial Commissariat of the Upper Palatinate on February 27, 1807 “Partly because of the increased crowd in recent times, and partly because of the difficulty of the parishioners from this area… the former Expositur St. Christoph was raised to a parish of its own in 1788, with the most gracious display of the congregation for the pastor of the parish beneficium there Rule founded and presented by the same to the newly established parish of the priest Josef Winkelmeyer as pastor ”. In 1808 the imperial rule of Waldheim was also acquired by the Kingdom of Bavaria .
Church building
The church is mentioned as early as 1609. A lightning strike was destroyed, by the year 1709 rebuilt using older walls and on 22 February 1709 benediziert . From 1732 to 1734 an extension was made to the rear of the church, the sacristy was added and the church tower removed. Today the church is a hall church with a hipped roof and a retracted three-sided closed choir . On the south side of the church there is a flank tower placed at a corner with an onion dome. The sacristy used to be in the tower, but is now added to the north of the choir.
The church and the grounds were renovated in 1936, 1957/58 and between 1990 and 1992.
Interior
Inside the church has a flat coffered ceiling and baroque furnishings. The high altar and the two side altars date from the beginning of the 18th century, the high altar has two smooth marbled columns and two secondary figures. The Weiden painter Wilhelm Vierling made the picture of the high altar with the depiction of Christophorus . The altarpiece on the left St. Mary's altar is almost identical to that in the church of Lennesrieth and comes from the same painter. Special features of the church are a Madonna from around 1500 and a double Madonna with a rosary from the 18th century hanging in the room.
literature
- Waldthurn community: 775 years of Waldthurn: Heimatfest; August 7-17, 1992. Spintler, Weiden 1992, OCLC 165454712 , pp. 224-226.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Community Waldthurn, 1992, p. 225.
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 34 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 47.7" E