St. John the Baptist (raft)
The parish church of St. John the Baptist is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Floß market in the northern Upper Palatinate . It was built between 1910 and 1912 and is now a listed building.
history
The parish church of St. John the Baptist, a late Gothic building that has been a simultaneous church since the 17th century, served as a common church for the two denominations . Today it is the parish church of the Evangelical parish in Floß. With the population growth at the beginning of the 19th century, the desire in the population for the solution of the simultaneum and the building of their own Catholic parish church increased. After the first plans to build a new church were initially rejected by the Episcopal Ordinariate in Regensburg , Pastor Raß apparently built the project on his own based on the model of the Püchersreuth parish church Peter and Paul, which was designed by Heinrich Hauberrisser . The Koch & Spiegel team acted as site manager in Floß . On August 29, 1910, on the feast of the beheading of St. John the Baptist , the foundation stone could be laid. The new church was consecrated on August 26, 1912 by the Regensburg Bishop Anton von Henle .
Interior
The inner part of the current altar comes from the parish church in Pfreimd . The rococo work was created in 1791 and gilded by Wolfgang Pösl from Amberg. It was not until 1927 that the rear structure was added to the altar. On the right, John the Baptist, the patron saint of the Church, points with his right hand at Jesus. At the bottom left is the second patron saint of the Church, St. Peter Canisius , who holds the catechism and the rosary in his hands and teaches two children in the faith. In the middle is the cross with the crucified Jesus, next to it are figures of Mary as Mother of Sorrows and the Evangelist John . The altar is decorated with large May balls and two putti . In the high altar there are two large panels that contain relics of various saints. Behind the cross in the glass window there is God the Father and the Holy Spirit, who together with the cross symbolize the Trinity.
The left side altar is consecrated to the Holy Family and was one of the few items taken from the old simultaneous church. The acanthus altar dates from 1723 and shows the Holy Family in the form of the holy walk in the baroque interior . The side altar on the right was only made in 1927 as a counterpart to the other side altar. It comes from an art carpenter from Pressath and shows in the middle the handing over of the keys from Jesus to Peter.
The people's altar and the ambo were erected according to the guidelines of the Second Vatican Council in 1968 by the pastor Richard Bartmann. Both are made from local granite .
The ceiling frescoes were created by the painter Peter Schwarz during the church renovation from 1997 to 1999. The work includes six large ceiling paintings and the pictures of the apostles . The fresco above the organ addressed a Bible passage from the John Prolog . The ceiling picture in the main nave is twelve by eight meters in size and depicts scenes from the Old and New Testament. The second large fresco in the nave and transept shows the baptism of Jesus . Above the sanctuary you can see the calling of the first disciples of Jesus. The other three motifs are John in front of King Herod and John in prison and the apocalypse . The pictures of the twelve apostles were created in 1999 and adorn the side walls of the ship.
There are several statues in the parish church. A statue of the Madonna is in the upper left in front of the chancel and a Pietà from the 1920s in the memorial chapel for the deceased. The most valuable statue in the church is the Gothic Madonna from 1487. There are other figures of St. Elisabeth, St. Francis, St. Antonius, St. Hildegard von Bingen and Father Rupert Mayer .
organ
Today's organ in the church is the work of Eduard Hirnschrodt from Regensburg . It was made from parts of the former pneumatic 18- register organ by Binder & Siemann from 1918 in 1974 and the sound was changed and expanded with a few new registers. The prospectus was revised in 1997. The 1572 pipes stand on electro-pneumatic cone chests . The 23 registers are divided into two manuals and pedal . In addition, there are two free combinations as playing aids and the normal paddocks . The organ case has a floating stem. Thanks to the electric game and register system , the game table could be made mobile.
Bells
Four bells from the Regensburg bell foundry in Hamm hang in the church tower . They were cast in 1948 and are tuned to the pitch sequence c '- e' - g '- a' ( Salve-Regina motif ). They are named Herz-Jesu-Glocke, Marienglocke, Antonius-Glocke and Elisabeth-Bell. The approximate weights of the bells are 4300 kg, 2100 kg, 1100 kg and 700 kg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: List of Monuments Floß (Upper Palatinate) (PDF; 142 kB)
- ↑ Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (Ed.), Frank Ebel (Red.): The church builder Heinrich Hauberrisser. Architecture between historicism and modernity. (= Series of publications of the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association. Volume 4.) Dr. Peter Morsbach Verlag, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-937527-73-4 , p. 59.
- ↑ Parish Floß: Parish Church St. Johannes - Fresken ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Christian Vorbeck: The organ builders Martin Binder and Willibald Siemann . Siebenquart Verlag Dr. Roland Eberlein, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-941224-02-5 . → Print of the original work list
- ^ Parish Floß: Parish Church St. Johannes - The organ. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
- ^ The bells on the parish website, accessed on September 5, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 23.7 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 17.2" E