St. Johannes Evangelist (Oberbibrach)
The Roman Catholic Expositur Church of St. Johannes Evangelist in Oberbibrach in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Vorbach belongs to the "Monastery Parish of St. Johannes Evangelist Vorbach".
history
In the place of the current church there was a small Gothic church building, presumably the castle church of Oberbibrach Castle . On the west side the gable was supported by a retaining wall facing the moat. From this church only a Gothic font made of sandstone remained, which was placed in the new church; the font has a relief with lilies on the edge of the pool. In 1910, the teacher Anna Trösch donated an ornate copper lid for this . In the wall behind the high altar there is a coat of arms stone with a helmet and three upward swimming fish belonging to the Lords of Bibra with the year 1291.
In 1760 a delegation of the citizens of Bibrach approached Abbot Dominic I von Lieblein with a request for the old and dilapidated church to be rebuilt . The following year the abbot approved this request and on March 26, 1761 work began on demolishing the old church. The Speinhart canon Hugo Strauss made the plan for the new church ; he had studied architecture in Prague and was responsible for the buildings of the monastery. The masonry work was carried out by the master mason Adam Preyssinger from Oberbibrach . The shell construction lasted until 1763. In 1765 a Georg Rasberger laid the floor with marble paving. In 1767 the cemetery wall and the ossuary were built. In 1764 the inside of the church was whitened, in 1768 the outer walls were plastered.
The provisional benediction was carried out in 1766 on behalf of the episcopal consistory by Macarius Parry ; since then, trade fairs have been allowed to be held here. The consecration took place on October 23, 1771 by Auxiliary Bishop Adam Ernst von Bernclau . The church is consecrated to John the Evangelist , the feast of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist is celebrated on December 27th. The second church patron was St. John Baptist set. For the inauguration the church received relics of the two saints, as well as of James the Elder and of St. Simon .
In 1781 work began on building a church tower attached to the nave . The attached double onion was planned by the master carpenter Wunschel and the slater Friederich Hildebrandt from Bayreuth . The final invoice for the bell cage and the stairs in the tower was made on July 28, 1782 by the carpenter Michael Fichtl from Bibrach. A cross was also placed on the tower.
The tower was renovated several times, for example in 1877 and 1930. In 1881 the tower was fitted with a lightning rod . The exterior renovation of the church began in 1977, the interior renovation in 1981. On April 25, 1983, Bishop Manfred Müller visited the renovated church.
Until 1488 Bibrach belonged to the original parish of Mockersdorf . A cleric of his own is only proven here during the Reformation , namely the former Speinsharter canon Christoph Schenk Siemau worked here for 15 years in the 16th century . After the Counter Reformation , the Bibracher tried in 1718 to get their own pastor's position; this application was not successful, however, until the secularization , Bibrach received spiritual care from the Speinshart monastery. In 1859 the citizens applied for an exposition . In 1917 a branch association was even founded, which bought up a piece of land in order to build a rectory. But it wasn't until December 18, 1917, that Regensburg Bishop Anton von Henle approved the exposition, which was also supposed to supply Vorbach . On December 20, 1917, the first branch named Kellner could solemnly move in here. On September 30, 1923, he was led into the newly built rectory. His successor in 1924 was Gereon Motyka , who later became the abbot of Speinshart Monastery.
Construction
The church is a hall church with a hipped roof and a retracted rectangular choir . The choir tower has a multi-tiered onion dome .
The church has a cemetery , which is surrounded by a cemetery wall made of quarry stone and ashlar masonry . On January 14, 1929, a sandstone war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War was created by the master stonemason Prösl from Eschenbach, which then had to be completed after the Second World War . A cross with a Pietà relief is placed above an inscription tablet . The cemetery chapel is a tent roof structure over an irregular floor plan; it was built from rubble stone in the 18th century. Due to a lack of space, a new cemetery with a funeral hall had to be created in 1972; the architect was Georg Stange from Eschenbach. The new cemetery was inaugurated on November 18, 1973.
Interior
The picture on the high altar shows, framed by four columns, St. John on the island of Patmos . The Fathers of the Premonstratensian Order , Norbert and Augustine, serve as assistance figures . In Altar extract which is Holy Trinity represented. Above it is a fresco depicting the adoration of the 24 elders . The two side altars (built around 1730) come from the previous building. The one on the left is consecrated to Our Lady , in the excerpt there is a depiction of St. Bartholomew . The right one is to St. Dedicated to Joseph , with St. Florian is located. The carving of the altars is attributed to the Auerbach sculptor Johann Michael Doser .
The richly decorated pulpit comes from Ulrich Lambeck from Schlicht bei Vilseck and was created in 1767. The pulpit has rocaille ornaments . A putto is holding the tablets of the Law in Moses' hand on the cover .
The church chairs with their late baroque cheeks were made by the monastery carpenter Steinl ; one was delivered every year, the last in 1770. The pews were donated by donors.
The ceiling paintings by Auerbach painter Michael Wild deserve special attention in the Rococo church . The composition begins and ends with the vision of John on the island of Patmos in front of the twelve-door Jerusalem; he receives an order from an angel to write down his visions. At the center is a pregnant woman whose child is supposed to rule the world. Both are threatened by a dragon, symbol of evil. The Archangel Michael and his angels set out to fight against evil and the fallen angels. In the back the judgment of God is shown. Scenes from the life of the evangelist (calling, Last Supper , martyrdom and death of John, encounter with Jesus) are depicted in smaller frescoes on the side surfaces .
organ
The cleaning of the temple by Jesus is shown above the curved parapet of the organ gallery.
The first organ was installed as early as 1763, but was then replaced by a gift from Abbot Eberhard Razer in 1778 with the old choir organ of the Speinshart monastery. This was in service until 1902, when it was replaced by an instrument made by the organ builder Wolf from Bayreuth in 1903. The organ was, however, very prone to failure due to the mechanical operation, so that in 1959 they thought of changing it. The current organ, inaugurated in 1960, is the work of Eduard Hirnschrodt from Regensburg with II / P manuals and 12 stops.
Bells
The church has four bells. The smallest of them was donated by the parsonage Anna Schmidt in 1954 , the bell bears the inscription “ Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us ”. The Marienglocke dates from 1718 and was cast in Bibrach, it has the inscription " S. Maria ora pro nobis anno domoni 1718 ". In 1952 the Norbert bell was acquired through a collection, it bears the inscription " 1952 donated by the parish of Oberbibrach and Prelate Gereon Motyka and Father Bartholomäus Kraus ". The fourth bell is the midsummer or weather bell with the inscription " JESUS NAZARENUS REX JUDAEORUM HAEC CAM NA FVSA CONSECRAT EST IN HONOREM S: JIHANNIS EVANGELISTAE: 1718 GOSS MICH MAGNUS GABRIEL REINBERG VON AMBERG ". This was removed and taken away during the Second World War, but was discovered in 1947 at the bell cemetery in Hamburg and brought back in 1947.
The Georgs bell, donated by Georg Ruderer in 1930 , could not be found after the war.
literature
- Hermann Josef Kugler (Ed.): Speinshart Monastery: a hidden gem in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7954-3294-2 , pp. 83-97.
- Hans Huebner: Church Chronicle Expositur Oberbibrach. Self-published, Oberbibrach 1983.
Web links
- Expositurkirche St. Johannes Evangelist in Oberbibrach
- Oberbibrach on aerial photo Laumer
- Thanksgiving service with a festival of helpers. onetz.de
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 20.8 " N , 11 ° 46 ′ 22.5" E