St. John the Baptist (Ilsenbach)
The church of St. John the Baptist in Ilsenbach goes back to a medieval foundation in the 10th century. It is a listed building.
Geographical location
The church is located on the northern edge of Ilsenbach. It is located on the southwest tip of a small elevation. This elevation forms an oval, slightly inclined to the northeast, about 125 m long and 50 m wide. The church is located in the middle of the Ilsenbach cemetery.
Church building
The foundation walls of the church and the foundation of the tower date from the Romanesque period. A Romanesque slit window has been preserved on the east side of the tower.
The church was built in the 10th century as a fortified church with a high curtain wall and tower. In the tower there is a bell from the 13th century. A tombstone from the 13th century was found near the church, which is now placed on the western church wall.
In the church there is a chalice from around 1550. The sacristy door dates from around 1600.
History of the parish and church of Ilsenbach
10th to 16th centuries
According to oral tradition, a baptistery of St. Johannes Baptist was built in Ilsenbach around the year 960 . In the course of proselytizing the country, there were probably baptisms of adults here. In the year 1000 Ilsenbach was a Catholic parish with a parish seat and pastor.
In 1261, a Romanesque parish church of St. Johann Baptist is named, which in 1326 is designated as belonging to the Altenstadt dean's office. The monastery Waldsassen at that time had the right of patronage for Ilsenbach. The oldest bell in Ilsenbach dates from around 1300 to 1350.
1308 Mr. Ulrich is named as pastor of Ilsenbach. A church in Ilsenbach is mentioned in 1332. In the Regensburg diocesan register, Ilsenbach is listed as an independent parish with a pastor in 1433.
The south-eastern cemetery wall in Ilsenbach, which still exists today (2019), was built around 1500. In 1514 the pastor Aegid Hagn is mentioned in Ilsenbach. He didn't have a big toe. The small tenth was recorded with 4 guilders per year and his total annual income with 12 guilders. In 1516 Botzersreuth, Kronmühle and Oberndorf belonged to the parish of Ilsenbach .
In 1550 Ilsenbach became Protestant because of the Reformation . With Johann Jann Ilsenbach got his first Protestant preacher in 1570.
17th to 18th centuries
In 1605 Johann Löb was a Protestant pastor in Ilsenbach.
In 1624 the Counter-Reformation began in Ilsenbach and Prince Lobkowitz received the right of patronage over the parish of Alt-Neustadt with Ilsenbach. In 1628 Ilsenbach got a Catholic pastor again. In 1629 the Jesuit father Kling helped in the re-catholicization of Ilsenbach. In the Salbuch of 1631, 2 altars, 2 bells and a wall-mounted chandelier are listed as property of the church in Ilsenbach. 1653 belonged to the church of Ilsenbach in the cemetery 1 ossuary, 1 church good, 2 pictures, St. Johannes Baptist and St. Johannes Evangelist, 1 confessional, 1 holy grave for Good Friday, 1 towel, 1 hourglass on the preaching chair, 1 grate in front of the Altar. In 1656 the church in Ilsenbach was a simultaneous church , d. H. it was used simultaneously by Protestants and Catholics. In 1660 the Counter Reformation in Ilsenbach was over and Ilsenbach was again Catholic.
The diocesan register of Regensburg mentioned a Michaelskapelle in Ilsenbach in 1665 and in 1666 that Ilsenbach was united with the parish of Altenstadt. Today's high altar was installed in the church of Ilsenbach around 1670. At that time the sacristans from Ilsenbach and St. Quirin were schoolmasters at the same time. They taught the children arithmetic, reading and writing.
The tower of the church in Ilsenbach was built in the 17th century. He got a bell-house with an octagonal pointed roof. The Marien Altar came to the church in Ilsenbach around 1720.
19th century to the present
In 1823 Pastor Lintl von Altenstadt prevented a plan by the Neustadt Regional Court to demolish the church in Ilsenbach.
In 1855 a new organ was purchased for the church in Ilsenbach, which was removed again in 1940.
In 1917 Ilsenbach had to deliver a church bell as war material. Two new bells were cast by Karl Hamm in Regensburg in 1921, they weigh 2 and 3 hundredweight and are dedicated to St. John and the Mother of God Maria.
In 1929 Ilsenbach was re-pastured from Altenstadt to Neustadt and in 1940 from Neustadt to Püchersreuth. The pastor of Püchersreuth, Josef Zehent, promised to hold a service on the Stefanifest, on Easter Monday, on Johanni and on Allerseelen in Ilsenbach.
The pilgrimage to St. Quirin was banned by the National Socialists in 1933.
In 2011, a parish community was formed from the Püchersreuth parish, to which Ilsenbach belonged, and the Wurz parish together with the St. Erhard Wildenau Benefice. Pastor Manfred Wundlechner from Püchersreuth took over the care of this new structure. The parish of Neuhaus, which had previously formed a pastoral care unit with the parish of Wurz, was joined to the parish community with Windischeschenbach.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Püchersreuth (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Ilsenbach at Bayernatlas. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d St. Johann Ilsenbach on Ilsenbach's website. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Ilsenbach timetable on the Ilsenbach website. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ↑ a b Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Altbayern Series I, Issue 47: Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden, pp. 32, 129, 137, 172–176, 267, 348, 359–360, 375, 384, 391, 396, 402 , 435-436, 461
- ^ Heinrich Ascherl: History of the city and rule Neustadt ad Waldnaab. , Editor: Stadt Neustadt ad Waldnaab, 1982, pp. 37, 44, 65, 71, 80, 125, 154–161, 284, 330, 397, 426, 580, 581, 755
- ↑ [1] at onetz. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 35.7 ″ N , 12 ° 13 ′ 47.9 ″ E