St. Johannes Nepomuk (Waldeck)
The parish and pilgrimage church of St. Johannes Nepomuk is a Roman Catholic church in Waldeck, a district of the town of Kemnath in the northern Upper Palatinate . It is located in the center of Waldeck on Unteren Markt and was built as a chapel in 1730 and 1731; it is now a listed building .
history
In 1730, Baron Ignatz Anton von Otten , the district judge in Kemnath and Reichstag director in Regensburg , built a chapel in Waldeck in honor of St. John Nepomuk . He thus fulfilled the last wish of his seriously ill wife Euphrasia. The chapel was inaugurated on July 4, 1731 by Pastor Thomas Krempel. Due to the increasing number of pilgrims, Baron von Otten intended to convert the small chapel into a church. For this reason, in 1734 he obtained an indulgence for the participants in the patronage festival. On May 11, 1735, the pilgrimage church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Gottfried Langwerth von Simmern in the presence of the Fathers of the Franciscan monastery in Kemnath .
Baron Ignatz Anton von Otten could no longer carry out the expansion himself, he died on August 21, 1737 in Regensburg. Instead, his son Philipp Carl Erwin von Otten, district judge in Kemnath, continued his father's plan. As early as 1738 he made the first preparations for the extension, but the complete furnishings of the church could not be completed until 1749. Opposite he had a priest's house built with an apartment for a church servant. To promote pilgrimages to the new church, he founded a Johann Nepomuk brotherhood in 1750 with the consent of the Episcopal Ordinariate . It has been the parish church of Waldeck since 1794 .
Interior
The design of the high altar is very similar to an acanthus altar . Two gilded tendrils frame a life-size statue of the church patron Johannes Nepomuk with a cross, a martyr's palm and a wreath, next to it the two figures of the prince apostles Simon Peter with Bible and heavenly key and Paul of Tarsus with Bible and sword.
The right side altar shows Saint Anne with her daughter Maria on an oil painting as an altarpiece , above is a picture of Saint Francisco de Xavier . On the sides are the figures of St. Augustine Bishop and his mother, St. Monika . The theme of the left side altar is the passion of Christ . Instead of a tabernacle, the figure of the Savior on the hostage column, which was very venerated in the 18th century, is located in a glass shrine. The main motif of the altar is the crucifixion scene . The crucified Jesus in the middle, below the kneeling Veronica with the handkerchief , on both sides the mother of God Mary with the sword and the apostle John .
The ceiling painting of the church was made by the Regensburg painter Otto Gebhard . The painting on the ceiling of the choir shows the glorification of the martyr . In the threefold main painting on the ceiling of the nave, Johannes Nepomuk receives the guilty verdict of King Wenceslaus . The four medallions in the corners show the preaching Johannes Nepomuk, the confession of the queen, the torture with burning torches and the finding of his body in the Vltava . The frescoes are framed by stucco ornaments , which were probably created by Andreas Gebhard, a brother of Otto Gebhard.
literature
- Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Kemnath Monument List (PDF; 148 kB)
Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '54.3 " N , 11 ° 57' 5.9" E