St. Georg (Sassenreuth)

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The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Georg in the Sassenreuth district of the Upper Palatinate market in Kirchenthumbach belongs to the "Parish of the Assumption" of Kirchenthumbach.

history

A historical feature of this church is that it was built during the Nazi era and during the Second World War . The church goes back to the efforts of Pastor Leonhard Zechmeier . On March 4, 1938, he submitted the plan to build a chapel in Sassenreuth to the Regensburg Bishop Michael Buchberger and applied for a construction grant, which was also granted. On May 2, 1938, the mayor Josef Fichtl issued the local police permit after all neighbors had given their consent to the building of the church; The Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture also approved the building project on October 7, 1938, as did the Eschenbach District Office on March 14, 1939. Construction began under the supervision of master mason Paulus Fraunholz . Because of the impending outbreak of World War II, people remembered the ordinance issued on October 18, 1936 for the implementation of the four-year plan , which Hermann Göring had been given general power of attorney for all economic measures and through which all measures would make the German economy fit for war Impairments may have been prohibited. On June 24, 1939, the Eschenbach District Administrator issued an order that the building of the church was to be discontinued for "reasons relating to building materials law". An objection directed to the Regensburg District President Hermann Edler von Gäßler was also unsuccessful, but the letter of reply pointed out that leaving the building in a half-finished state against the order of the Minister of State for the Interior on cleanliness and beauty in town and country from 11. November 1935 violates and at least precautions must be taken to prevent weather damage. After a lengthy exchange of letters, in which the Reich Labor Minister Franz Seldte was also addressed and explained that the timber used did not come from "contingent timber stocks", iron and cement were not needed, the building materials (bricks and rubble stones) were already available and only "localized." "Employees who are not capable of compulsory obligations" are employed (the aforementioned Paulus Fraunholz was already 69 years old), ordered the "Area Commissioner of the General Representative for the Regulation of the Construction Industry" in Nuremberg on October 10, 1940, that the "Chapel building in Sassenreuth" be continued could.

On October 28, 1942, permission from the pastor was given to celebrate mass in the chapel and to hold religious instruction here (holding religious instruction in schools was forbidden under National Socialism, and this was one of the main arguments in favor of the one-hour walk to the parish church the church building). Since the initiator of the church, Pastor Leonhard Zechmeier , died on October 4th, 1942, his successor, Pastor Josef Bollmann , consecrated the church on September 19th, 1943.

On May 28, 1952, the plan for an adjacent church tower was approved by the Eschenbach District Office, which was built under the direction of master bricklayer Baptist Zimmermann from Kirchenthumbach, the previously existing roof turret was removed. In 1955 an outside staircase and a war memorial were built. On the patronage day , April 23, 2017, a festival for the 75th anniversary of the church was celebrated with Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer and a Georgiritt . A commemorative publication on the church in Sassenreuth by Benedikt Roeder , OPraem , was presented beforehand.

Construction

The hall church is 12.5 m long and 8 m wide, up to the lower edge of the roof it is 3.8 m high. The sacristy is located on the ground floor of the 18 m high church tower . The choir has a three-eighths closure .

Interior

For the church a baroque altar from 1680 could be obtained from the church of Klardorf , on the altar sheet is St. George shown. The assistants Jesus and Mary stand in front of the choir arch. On the back wall under the gallery is a statue of Brother Konrad with a child by the Pielenhofen sculptor Joseph Riepl . The Way of the Cross was inaugurated on February 23, 1947 .

The interior is arched like a barrel and lined with wood. It is laid out with Solnhof natural stone slabs. A representation of Jesus Christ as Pantocrator , surrounded by angels, can be seen above the archway.

Bells

The first bell in the ridge was purchased by the parish of Haag. After the church tower had been rebuilt, two bronze bells from the Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg were acquired in 1963 . The third bell, the so-called Laurentius bell, comes from the Kirchenthumbach parish church , for which the bell was given by Haag to the morgue in Kirchenthumbach. The consecration of bells was carried out on January 27, 1963 by Pastor Josef Bollmann . An electric bell was installed at the same time.

The church now has three bells: Wendelin bell , 434 kg, inscription HL. WENDELIN SEI PATRON FOR STABLE AND HALL , tone b ′; Maria Goretti bell, 245 kg, inscription HL. MARIA GORETTI SCHÜTZE OUR YOUTH , tone of the ′ ′; Laurentius bell (1871), 114 kg, inscription IN HONOREM SANCTI LAURENTII FECIT STEPHAN HEGENDORFER ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLXXI. NO 59 , sound it ′.

literature

  • 75 years of St. Georg Sassenreuth: 1942–2017. Publishing house Kath. Pfarramt, Kirchenthumbach 2017.
  • Churches of the parish of the Assumption of Mary, Kirchenthumbach. Pp. 11-12. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-6973-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parish of Mariä Himmelfahrt Kirchenthumbach , accessed on February 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ 75 years of St. Georg Church in Sassenreuth: A look back at the history of its origins: Great sacrifices, great harassment , Onetz of May 4, 2017, accessed on February 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ 75 years St. Georg Church in Sassenreuth: Pastor provides 48-page booklet with everything ... Festschrift for a specialty , Onetz from February 10, 2017, accessed on February 18, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 32.2 "  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 56.5"  E