St. Jakob (Schwandorf)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Jakob is originally a Gothic, Baroque-style and regothic wall pillar church in Schwandorf in the district of the same name in the Upper Palatinate . It belongs to the parish of St. Jakob Schwandorf in the Schwandorf deanery of the diocese of Regensburg .
History and architecture
The parish has been the seat of a dean since 1306. An earlier affiliation to Wiefelsdorf or Wackersdorf cannot be proven. After 1617 Wiefelsdorf and Wackersdorf as well as Pittersberg were supplied from St. Jakob until these parishes could be reoccupied with a Catholic priest.
A Gothic structure, from which the polygonal choir comes, was completed around 1400. This new building was erected in the middle of the cemetery, right next to the previous parish church and castle chapel of St. Anna. In 1470 the church was extended to the west. In 1483, the keep of Schwandorf Castle was converted into a church tower. In the years between 1542 and 1617 the church was used by Protestants and then again by Catholics. After a fire, a wooden ceiling was installed over the pilasted church in 1520, which was replaced by a baroque barrel vault in 1678 by the French builder Pietro Spineta (the builder of the chapel of Fronberg Castle ) . At the same time, an oratorio above the sacristy was created for the lord of the castle von Ettmannsdorf . In 1856 the baroque onion dome of the tower fell down in a hurricane and damaged St. Anne's Church, which was now used as a cemetery chapel, so badly that it had to be demolished in the following years. The tower received a tin pyramid. In the years 1868–1872, the church was extended by two bays to the west through private donations, galleries were built in and the vault was decorated with stucco ribs.
The hall church measures a total length of 47 meters today, the nave including the side chapels is 17.50 meters wide. The room height is 12.50 meters.
The church forms the end of the market square rising to the northeast and is dominated by Heinrich Hauberrisser's crowning tower from 1913. The retracted, three-sided Gothic long choir is provided with buttresses and tracery windows; the five-bay nave connects to the west.
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic interior was acquired between 1866 and 1873. The high altar was made by the sculptor P. Horschler from Regensburg according to a design by Georg Dengler . The altarpieces are signed by the painter Michael Wittmer, who painted them in Rome. They show the calling and martyrdom of St. James. Six apostles are depicted on the side wings. These are on the left: St. Simon, Bartholomew and Matthew; right: Hll. Philip, James the Younger and Matthias. When the altar is closed, the Annunciation and a scene from the Mount of Olives can be seen. The bones of St. Martyr Victor. In 1732 this was given to Thomas Ferdinand Freiherr von Quentel in Rome from Pope Clemens XII. given for his diplomatic services.
A late Gothic figure of Our Lady from the second half of the 15th century stands on the southern wall of the long choir. In one of the south aisle chapels stands a baroque Pietà group from the mid-18th century. The Stations of the Cross were created around the same time.
Several artistically valuable grave monuments from the Renaissance have been preserved. On the south side in the western chapel is a limestone epitaph by Balthasar von Vestenberg zu Fronberg († 1556), which shows the deceased kneeling in front of the crucifix. In the eastern chapel is the epitaph of Hans Crafft von Vestenberg zu Fronberg († 1564) and his wife and children with a depiction of the Last Judgment, an aedicule with a marriage coat of arms and a coat of arms on the side. On the north side in the eastern chapel is a high relief from the beginning of the 17th century from a broken chapel in Ziegelhütte near Pirkensee, which shows the flagellation of Christ based on an engraving by Hendrick Goltzius from 1597. In the western chapel there is an epitaph of the parish priest Leonhard Strobel († 1645). In the nave are further grave monuments of the lords of Fronberg. Under the floor in the nave, near the right side altar, are the crypts of the Barons von Quentel.
In the choir area there are fragments of other late Gothic grave monuments that were used as altar steps after the iconoclasm of 1555.
The organ is a work by Michael Weise from 1954 with 30 stops on two manuals and pedal .
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. 730-731.
- Ludwig Weingärtner: The way to the Catholic restoration in: Schwandorf in past and present, City Chronicle Volume 2, City of Schwandorf 2001, pp. 695–778
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved June 7, 2020 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 52 " N , 12 ° 6 ′ 31.3" E