St. Georg (Mitterfels)
 View from the east |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| place | Mitterfels , Germany |
| diocese | Diocese of Regensburg |
| Patronage | George (saint) |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | September 6, 1734 |
| Architectural style | Late baroque |
| Function and title | |
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Side church |
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| 48 ° 58 '9.8 " N , 12 ° 40' 46.9" E | |
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Georg is a late Baroque building in Mitterfels , a market in the Lower Bavarian district of Straubing-Bogen . It is dedicated to Saint George . The building from 1734 is a listed building.
location
The church is 406 m above sea level. NN on a square-like extension of Burgstrasse, separated by the neck ditch from Mitterfels Castle to the south, which can be reached over a bridge to the east past the church. St. Georg characterizes the townscape in the village center.
organ
The organ was built in 1948 by the organ building workshop Eduard Hirnschrodt (Regensburg). The instrument has twelve registers on two manuals and a pedal .
history
St. Georg in Mitterfels was rebuilt in 1734 as a palace church in the late Baroque style as a replacement for the dilapidated palace chapel of Mitterfels Castle. After completion, it was simply consecrated on September 6, 1734, the consecration did not take place until June 17, 1873 by Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey . In 1824 the tower was completed, which for financial reasons was only carried out up to the ridge when the church was built. Up until secularization , St. George was a branch church in the Kreuzkirchen monastery parish , which, in addition to Mitterfels, included the villages of Scheibelsgrub , Weingarten and Kreuzkirchen. In 1803, the Oberalteich monastery , which had previously provided the parish of Kreuzkirchen with the local parish church of St. Margarita, was dissolved. In 1808 the parish seat was relocated from Kreuzkirchen to Mitterfels. St. Georg was then raised to the parish church of the parish Mitterfels. It remained the parish church until 1970, when the newly built Heilig-Geist-Kirche became the Roman Catholic parish church of Mitterfels.
Previous construction
The exact location of the previous building, the castle chapel, also known as St. Georg, is not documented. The plan for the new building speaks of a “place 8 to 10 steps from the previous one”. According to the illustration in the engraving by Michael Wening , the location of the palace chapel is assumed to be southwest of the 1734 building. With the assessment "the castle chapel is an old and dilapidated work and so narrow that it can hardly hold a hundred people, but 300 are coming ..." the ordinariate granted permission on May 14, 1732 for demolition, transfer and new construction at another location.
literature
- Max Lachner, Josef Krinner: 800 years of history around Mitterfels . Ed .: Mitterfels community. Munich, S. 87-91 (1968 approx.).
Web links
- St. George's Church in Mitterfels bayerischer-wald.de
- Churches in Mitterfels Parish Community Mitterfels-Haselbach
- Mitterfels then and now, Part 2, Historical representations of Mitterfels Castle, Local History Working Group
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Mitterfels (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
- ^ Franz Tosch: 50 years of the new Catholic parish church Heilig-Geist in Mitterfels . In: Mitterfelser Magazin - yesterday-today-tomorrow . No. 26 , 2020, p. 32 .
- ↑ a b Diocese of Regensburg (ed.): Matriculation of the Diocese of Regensburg . Compiled according to the general parish and church description from 1860 with regard to the older diocese registers. Regensburg 1863, p. 315–316 ( online at MDZ ).
- ↑ Information sign on the east side of the Catholic parish church St. Georg in Mitterfels , photo by Rosa-Maria Rinkl, "1805 parish church of the newly founded parish Mitterfels"
- ^ Michael Wening: Historico-Topographica Descriptio . That is: Description of the Elector and Hertduchy of Upper Bavaria and Nidern Bayrn, Which is divided into four parts or Renntämbter, Oberlandts Munich and Burgkhausen, Underlandts but in Landshuet and Straubing; ... Munich 1726, p. 41 ( online at MDZ - “Mitterföls Report”).