St. Georg (Neustadt an der Waldnaab)

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Parish Church of St. George
Church in the cityscape
inside view
Crucifixion group

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Georg in Neustadt an der Waldnaab ( Upper Palatinate ) in the diocese of Regensburg . The Georgskirche from the Baroque period was built in its current form in 1735.

history

The first documentary mention of the Church of St. Georg, at that time “St. Jörg ”, dates back to 1340. It forms the southwest corner of the town square.

In 1607 a new tower was built on the east side of the church, which is still standing today and forms the lower floors of the church tower.

In 1702 an adjoining house was purchased to enlarge the church, but this was not carried out until 30 years later. At this point the building was so dilapidated that a new church was being built. Johann Leonhard Mayer , Neustädter Stadtbaumeister, was responsible for the plans and construction .

Steeple

The old tower of the church with a pointed roof was replaced in 1607 by a new tower on the east side of the building, built by master masons Veit Lippert and Jörg Hopf. Stones from the ruined castle of Störnstein were used to build the new tower , while the tower was raised to five storeys in the 18th century with brickwork so that the transition between the old and the new part inside the tower can be clearly seen. Until 1794 the tower had an onion-shaped dome. In the course of the elevation, the tower was given a compartment with a double dome and lantern, built by the Neustadt carpenter Johann Wolfgang Näger. In 1823 the city clock was moved from the town hall to the church tower.

Peal

The aftermath of the World War had a significant impact on the varied history of bells in the church. The original bells from the 16th century are no longer preserved today. The small bell was made in 1574 by the Tachau bell founder Hans Stayn and was inscribed with the four evangelists. The death bell was from 1705, the big one from 1736 and was cast by Silvius Kleeblatt from Amberg . The middle bells came from 1819 and was made by Josef Bertold in Amberg. In 1917 the middle one, in 1918 the big one and the death bell were withdrawn . After the First World War , three new bells were made by Leonhard Lorenz from Passau, giving up the rest of the historical bells, followed by another in 1928 from Gugg’s bell foundry in Passau. The old cemetery bell that Johann Schelchshorn cast in 1663 served as the death bell . In 1928 Fritz Höltl installed electric ringing machines in Hegge . In the Second World War , four bells were again drawn in for war purposes.

The current four bells in the tower of St. Georg were cast in 1949 by the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. On September 23, 1949 the new bells arrived in Neustadt. They have a total weight of 3825 kg and cost a total of 25036.00 DM (12800.70 €)

No.
  		Surname
  		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		Ø
(mm) 		inscription
 
1 Archangel Michael Bell 1900 of the 1st 1450 Soli Deo Gloria, duce Michaele Archangelo (Honor to God alone, under the guidance of Archangel Michael)
2 Saint George Bell 950 f 1 1150 Sancti Georgi, protega parochi tuam, Neustadt ad Waldnaab 1949 (Saint George, protect your parish Neustadt ad Waldnaab)
3 Marienbell 575 as 1 970 Sancta Dei genitrix, ora prototum 1949 (Holy Theotokos, please for everyone)
4th Saint Martin bell 400 b 1 860 Sancte Martine, exora novum civitatem 1949 (Saint Martin, hear Neustadt)

The tower clock was looked up every hour by the tower keeper until the reference mechanism was connected to the electric clock in 1924. For structural reasons, a new bell cage was installed by the Perner company in 1976 to replace the wooden one.

Tower keeper

The office of the tower keeper has been documented in Neustadt since the 16th century. As an employee of the city, the tower keeper kept a constant fire watch on the tower and performed other tasks, such as blowing the tower at 4 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. as well as on public holidays, looking up the tower clock, etc.

organ

organ

The church is equipped with an organ from the construction period. In 2007 the instrument was extensively restored and restructured by the organ building company Thomas Jann (Laberweinting). By reusing the pipe material from the organ building company Weise from 1974, the disposition of the individual works was slightly supplemented. The auxiliary work (single tone store), which is located in a swell box, is new . The registers of the auxiliary can be played separately on each manual and on the pedals. Today the instrument has 32 registers , plus 5 extended registers in the auxiliary.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Lead-covered 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th Scharff III 1'
5. Rohrschalmey 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
6th Principal 8th'
7th Forest flute 8th'
8th. Octave 4 ′
9. Octave 2 ′
10. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Salicional 8th'
14th Principal 4 ′
15th Wooden flute 4 ′
16. recorder 2 ′
17th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Mixture II-III 1'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
21st Revelation 16 ′
22nd Great fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Octave bass 8th'
24. Flute bass 8th'
25th Chorale bass 4 ′
26th Back set III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. trombone 16 ′
Auxiliary C – g 3
28. Bourdon 16 ′
29 Gamba 8th'
30th Beat (from c 0 ) 8th'
31. bassoon 16 ′
32. Trumpet 8th'
33. Oboe (No. 31) 8th'
34. Bourdon (No. 28) 8th'
35. Gamba (No. 29) 4 ′
36. Bourdon (No. 28) 4 ′
37. Trumpet (No. 32) 4 ′
Tremulant

Other equipment

The painting of St. George on the baroque high altar and the Stations of the Cross are by Thaddäus Rabusky from Neustadt. Another altar is dedicated to Johannes Nepomuk .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Georg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ascherl, Geschichte der Stadt…, pp. 654–655.
  2. ↑ a b Ascherl, History of the City…, pp. 680–682.
  3. ^ A b c Heinrich Ascherl: Chronicle of the parish Alt-Neustadt ad Waldnaab. (2nd Edition). Neustadt an der Waldnaab, 1977, p. 83 ff.
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 350, 546 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 311–313, 503 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  6. ↑ Festschrift for the organ consecration on December 16, 2007 (PDF file; 2.3 MB)
  7. ↑ Neustadt an der Waldnaab  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the page euregio-egrensis.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.euregio-egrensis.de  
  8. ^ The Golden Road in Bavaria and Bohemia

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 49.7 "  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 14.4"  E