St. Georg (Pressath)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Georg is a Gothic, Baroque-style hall church in Pressath in the Upper Palatinate district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab . It belongs to the parish community Burkhardsreuth-Pressath-Schwarzenbach in the diocese of Regensburg .
history
A first parish on site is documented in 1244. The building history is full of unanswered questions even after the investigations and uncoverings carried out during the restoration work in 1983/1984 and 1994/1995. After the archaeological excavations, the medieval structure was initially extended to the west and enlarged to the west and north in the 18th century. During this last expansion, a private house was built over, of which a medieval cellar has been preserved. A medieval round tower, which dates back to the 12th century, may have been part of this complex.
The core of the nave walls still contains the Romanesque structure, but apart from that, they also show a two-time Gothic revision. The Gothic building was already the width of today's nave. The destruction in 1633 and the subsequent reconstruction is documented by written records, but the structural extent of these measures is unclear. Presumably at this time the vaults of today's sacristy were renewed , which formed the westernmost yoke of a polygonal eastern choir end preserved in foundation walls. Under the sacristy, under the former altar, a crypt was found mentioned in 1748, which was bricked up again in 1983 according to documentation.
It is still unclear why today's sacristy was built next to the central axis and in alignment with the south wall of the church. Possibly an extension of the ship to the south was planned and therefore a relocation of the graves of the surrounding cemetery into the crypt was necessary. It is also possible that the end of the choir collapsed after the fire of 1759 and that the remaining yoke of the end of the choir has been used as a sacristy since that time.
After a fire in the years 1761–1765 (inscription on the tower), construction work on the church and the tower was carried out first by master mason Wolfgang Diller from Amberg and after 1763 by Wolfgang Reger from Pressath. The altars from around 1700 and the pulpit, which is used today as an ambo , were donated by the Salesian women from Amberg, and the Jesuits there donated a picture of St. George.
architecture
The structure is an externally simple plastered building with arched windows; Romanesque windows and Gothic portal frames were uncovered on the south side in 1984. The nave and choir are inscribed in a rectangle. To the east are the sacristy and the seven-storey tower with a retracted onion hood and lantern . The lower four tower floors are provided with small window openings, the floors above with rounded corners and pilaster strips. The inscription refers to the construction phase from 1761–1765.
Between the choir and the nave, a retracted, curved choir arch mediates under a mirror vault with stitch caps . The stucco is provided with frames, which are loosened up by floral motifs and border renewed ceiling paintings. The walls are structured by fluted double pilasters , and a two-storey gallery is arranged in the west. In the slightly recessed choir, in front of rounded corners, there are manorial galleries accessible from the outside, one of which bears the coat of arms of the von Hirschberg family .
Furnishing
Three large, magnificent altars, together with the carved parapets of the oratorios, dominate the interior. It can be assumed that the foundation of the furnishings influenced the particular shape of the choir and the choir arch. Some of the large altar leaves are believed to have been made by Johann Claudius Mono (Jean Claude Monot) from 1700 and show St. George, the Lamentation of Christ and the Fourteen Holy Helpers . The reredos with six or four staggered columns under cranked beams were made by the Amberg sculptor Kaspar Leactius Martinez and the carpenter Johann Glöckh. The frame was restored in 1962 as black, red and gold marbling. Moving baroque figures of Maria Immaculata and Saint Joseph are set up on the high altar, figures of Saints Sebastian and Antonius on the northern side altar, and Saints Leonhard and Florian on the southern side and a late Gothic seated Anna herself .
The organ prospectus with rich Rocailles carving was created in 1764 by Johann Konrad Funtsch from Amberg. Several grave slabs are attached to the outside wall of the church. On the south side is the plate of Juliana Kreß von Kreßenstein, née von Hirschberg († 1514), with a bas-relief of the deceased in cloak and hood under an arch made of two entwined branches with six ancestral coats of arms. The red marble grave slab for Elisabeth, wife of Sebald Kreß von Kreßenstein († 1502) is designed with a bas-relief of the deceased under a keel arch and alliance coat of arms . The red marble epitaph for Sebald Kreß zu Dietfurth († 1495) shows the deceased in half-relief under a keel arch in a fur-adorned coat and hat.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03118-0 , pp. 430–431.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 10.7 " N , 11 ° 55 ′ 59.5" E