St. John the Baptist (Rohrbach)
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The former Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist (also St. John the Baptist ) in Rohrbach in the Hallertau was built in the 15th century on the site of a previous Gothic building. It is located west of Rohrbach Castle and is surrounded by a cemetery wall from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century.
history
The essentially Romanesque church is a plastered gable roof with groin vaults in the chancel . The Gothic choir tower is decorated with a frieze and the tower gable is structured with arched panels and attachments. The nave flat ceiling with stucco frame, like the main altar, dates from around 1730. The side altars were created in the 19th century.
In the chancel there is a limestone epitaph with a group of crosses and the coat of arms of the Lords of Rohrbach from around 1530. Other coat of arms stones from the 16th and 17th centuries. Century are behind the altar. Individual valuable sculptures were brought to the new parish church of the Transfiguration of Christ created by Alexander von Branca in 1961 . The organ has six registers , dates from 1904 and was built by Willibald Siemann . The church is a protected architectural monument .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria, special edition 1990, p. 1025
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Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '46.2 " N , 11 ° 33' 40.4" E