St. John the Baptist (Weng)
St. John the Baptist is a Roman Catholic church in Weng , a district of Bad Griesbach . It is the parish church of the same parish , which together with the parishes Holy Family (Bad Griesbach) , Holy Trinity (St. Salvator), St. Assumption (Karpfham) and St. Valentin (Reutern) the Pfarrverband Bad Griesbach in the deanery Pocking ( Diocese of Passau ). The church was added to the list of architectural monuments in Bavaria under No. D-2-75-124-171 .
history
A church in Weng probably existed from the early 14th century as a branch church of the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Karpfham, which was incorporated into the Passau cathedral chapter . To support the pilgrimage to St. Wolfgang von Regensburg in the nearby pilgrimage church , which was built in 1411 , a pilgrimage chaplaincy was set up on August 3, 1454, which was combined with the cooperative at Wenger Church in 1500 and became a parish vicariate around 1600 . After secularization , St. John the Baptist was spun off from the mother parish of Karpfham in 1816 and made an independent parish.
Today the parish has about 900 Catholics. In addition to the pilgrimage church of St. Wolfgang, the parish also includes the birthplace of the Holy Capuchin brother Konrad von Parzham , which has a church service room on the top floor.
Buildings and equipment
The single-nave church at Kirchberg 16 in Weng is surrounded by the old parish cemetery . It goes back to the second half of the 15th century. The late Gothic presbytery and the basement of the church tower , which is attached to the south of the nave, date from this period . The presbytery was the nave of the original church. In order to enlarge the church, the old presbytery was demolished in 1849 and a new nave was built in its place, and the previous nave was redesigned as a presbytery. In 1880 the tower was raised and the sacristy was added.
The high altar of the church dates from 1920/21 and shows the baptism of Jesus by the church patron John the Baptist in the middle part , the two side altars, the pulpit and the stations of the cross were created in 1916 and 1921. The left side altar is dedicated to St. Mary , the right to St. Sebastian . This equipment is designed in the neo-baroque style. In 1978, after the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, a stone main altar and a stone ambo in a simple design were added. The church has 180 seats.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '5.4 " N , 13 ° 9' 4.2" E