St. Jakob (Lennesrieth)
The listed Roman Catholic branch church St. Jakob is located in Lennesrieth in Upper Palatinate , a district of Waldthurn (Lennesrieth 22). The patronage is dedicated to James the Elder , who was also the patron saint of the knights.
history
The local church is mentioned for the first time in 1279. At that time, Friedrich von Waldawe and Heinrich renounced his son all rights to the properties in Lenersreut , including the stone house by the church there. A parish in Lennesrieth is recorded in the oldest parish registers of the diocese of Regensburg since 1326. The parish was looked after by a folk priest and also had a cemetery. The parish was founded by the Lords of Waldau , who also had the right to present the church.
The area became Lutheran during the Reformation from 1540 to 1628 and Calvinist from 1559 to 1576 . Under the Wirsbergers , the parish was filled with Lutheran preachers , and the church utensils and liturgical clothing were confiscated. Willibald von Wirsberg tried to move the parish from Lennesrieth to Waldthurn, but this was not finally completed until 1685 and since then Lennesrieth has been a branch of Waldthurn. The Counter Reformation began around 1628 ; evidently the conversion to the Catholic faith did not take place without violence, because 90 dragoons had to be stationed here.
Church building
The choir tower with loopholes is reminiscent of the medieval fortified church . However, there is no written evidence of such use; this attribution is derived solely from the architectural design. Above the choir there are six rectangular loopholes with a height of 50 to 60 cm and a width of 20 to 30 cm, which expand inward. There was no staircase to this floor, but the room had to be entered from the church attic. This is accessible from the gallery and is secured with a heavy iron door. This was protected against being pushed in from the outside by means of a locking bar.
The Lennesriether Church is a hall church with a hipped roof and a retracted rectangular choir. The choir tower ends with a Gothic pointed helmet . The medieval tower has the external dimensions of 7 × 7.9 meters and a wall thickness of 1.55 meters in the base area. Inside the tower is the choir with a barrel vault . During the renovation in 2003, a brick arch from an earlier entrance became visible on the north side.
The nave has four bays , a length of 17.6 meters and a width of 11.5 meters. The nave is equipped with pilasters and barrel vaults with stitch caps. Gothic pointed arch windows have been preserved in the two front bays, and a round arch window from a later period in the third bay. On the north side, a bricked-up pointed arch window made of sandstone was found, possibly from an early construction phase of the church. In 1712 a third yoke was added to the nave, and in 1774 a renovation took place with a complete renewal of the roof structure and the addition of a sacristy on the south side. The side portals on the nave are marked 1830 and 1860, so they come from more recent times.
After several interior renovations (1903 and 1956) and an exterior renovation in 1992, the general renovation of the church took place between 2002 and 2006. Inside the communion bench was dismantled and a people's altar and an ambo were erected in the chancel. The relics of St. Aurelia , a martyr from the 3rd century, and Blessed Anna Schäffer von Mindelstetten are kept in a reliquary on the front of the popular altar .
Interior
A sixteen-sided font has been preserved from the medieval church . In the left wall the gable of a sacrament house is walled, a so-called Wimperg , in the half-relief next to a finial, the symbols of the high jurisdiction of the dominion of Waldthurn, sword and wheel, are shown.
In the choir arch there is a three-part patronage coat of arms with the tower, as the coat of arms of the Lords of Waldthurn, a shield with three heart-shaped leaves, symbol of the Waldsassen abbot Nikolaus Preisser, and a shield with sloping beam, symbol of the diocese of Regensburg .
The church has three baroque acanthus altars , which are attributed to the Auerbach sculptor Johann Michael Doser . The main altar dates from 1734. It has four smooth columns. In Altar extract that is Holy. Trinity represented. The altarpiece shows St. James the Elder . The side figures represent the saints Laurentius and Stephanus . The altarpiece of the right side altar shows St. Leonhard and St. Wendelin , the side figures are the saints Emmeram of Regensburg and Blasius . In the extract from the altar is a figure of John of Nepomuk . The left side altar contains a glass shrine with a late Gothic representation of the Madonna from 1500 (greatly modified in 1903). In the extract from the altar there is a figure of St. Isidore .
On the walls is a Way of the Cross from 1821 by Anton Hautmann from Tirschenreuth . Tables I to X come from donors, stations XI to XIV have no donor names. In 2006 the Way of the Cross was extensively restored.
The baroque pulpit from the 17th century shows the archangel Michael as the conqueror of Satan on the sound cover . On the parapet there are pictures of the four evangelists and of Christ Salvator . The ceiling paintings are modern, created during the church renovation in 1958.
literature
- Franz Bergler (text), Helmut Gollwitzer (red.): House book of the market town of Waldthurn. Medienhaus Weiden, Weiden 2003.
- Franz Bergler: Waldthurn: rule, market and parish; in the service of the homeland. Spintler, Weiden 2014.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 28.3 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 11.7" E