St. John of Nepomuk (Nové Hamry)

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St. John of Nepomuk in Nové Hamry
Rear view

The Catholic parish church of St. John of Nepomuk (Czech Kostel sv. Jana Nepomuckého ) is a late Baroque church building in the municipality of Nové Hamry (German Neuhammer ) in the Czech Republic and a protected architectural monument.

history

The village of Neuhammer belonged to the parish of St. Martin in Neudek until 1785 and was then raised to its own parish. In addition to Neuhammer, the parish also included the one-shift Saifenhäusel, which was politically part of Ullersloh . Because of the unfavorable location of the place and the difficult way to Neudek, especially in winter, hardly half of the residents were able to attend a church service. At the initiative of the then official director of the estate, Andreas Graser, the village was granted its own church. Until construction, the trade fairs were provisionally held in a private home.

The current church under the patronage of St. John of Nepomuk was built at the expense of the religious fund. The Prague auxiliary bishop Krieger personally chose the location on a hill above the village. The foundation stone was laid in 1787. By 1789 the building was completed. About the patronage the government decreed. The prismatic tower was only added in 1810. In 1815 the benefactor Johann Lauber donated a glass chandelier from house number 90. In 1905 the church received a new organ from the famous Prague organ builder Heinrich Schiffner . The last German pastor in the parish was Josef Hüttl (born March 1, 1908 in Alt-Sattl).

After the expulsion of the German population after 1945, the church was unused for a long time and was consequently in need of renovation. In 1958 the church was declared a cultural monument. A comprehensive renovation has recently taken place.

The church has a cemetery on which German gravestones can still be seen here and there. The great famine in the years 1771 to 1772 had 600 victims in the parish of Neudek alone. Since there was no more space in the Neudek cemetery, a separate churchyard was laid out in Neuhammer until it was enlarged. This was on the mountain east of the village street by the inn. The first pastor buried 59 bodies there. Sometimes the dead were buried behind their own houses.

description

The single-nave church with a gable roof ends with a three-sided presbytery , which is crowned by a small polygonal bell tower with an onion dome . On the west facade is a prismatic tower with a pyramidal roof. The sacristy is located on the east side of the presbytery. The outer walls are interrupted at the sides by four rectangular, semicircular windows. The entrance to the church is through a rectangular portal .

The interior has a flat ceiling and is kept uniform in the Rococo style. The main altar shows a contemporary painting and the two side altars show modern sculptures. The pulpit is decorated with statues of evangelists. A Madonna dates from the early 19th century.

Peal

The three original bells, which supposedly dated from 1735 to 1745, last rang on January 20, 1917 from 12 noon to 1 p.m., after which they were removed and melted down for military purposes. After the First World War , four new bells were purchased, two large and two small. The consecration took place on July 11, 1926. The solemn ceremony began in the morning with a pageant at the train station, during which the bells were loaded onto an ornate car and brought to the church.

Web links

Commons : Church of Saint John of Nepomuk (Nové Hamry)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy: Bohemia, Sudetenland, Parish Books, Neuhammer, Neudek. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Kronika farnosti | Porta fontium. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Contributions to Sudeten German Folklore . 1908 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer: The Kingdom of Bohemia: represented statistically and topographically. Elbogner Kreis . Ehrlich, 1847 ( google.de [accessed December 1, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Kronika farnosti | Porta fontium. Accessed December 1, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Jaroslav Vyčichlo: Nové Hamry - kostel sv. Jana Nepomuckého | Památky a příroda Karlovarska. Accessed December 1, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '49.1 "  N , 12 ° 43' 29.6"  E