St. Josef (Ramsberg)

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Church in Ramsberg am Brombachsee
Front of the church with the steeple on top
View of the front wall with the retracted choir
The altarpiece with the martyrdom of St. Stephen

St. Josef is a Catholic , listed branch church in Ramsberg am Brombachsee in the Bavarian town of Markt Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The church has the address Obere Dorfstrasse 32 and belongs to the parish of St. Vitus in the Pleinfeld district of Sankt Veit .

It is the successor to the small Josefs Chapel from 1723, which was demolished in 1836. After that, the place with its 300 Catholic inhabitants had no place of worship for decades. With the help of donations from all Catholic communities in Central Franconia and donations in kind, the new historicizing neo-Romanesque church was built in the years 1887 to 1888 according to plans by the district architect Gutmann from Weißenburg and inaugurated on August 19, 1888.

The church interior consists of a three-axis nave with arched windows and a retracted choir closed on three sides. It contains a two-column late Rococo altar from around 1766, a gift from the former municipality of Wasserzell . The altarpiece comes from the Eichstätter court painter Johann Michael Franz , but has been over-painted; it shows, among other things, the stoning of St. Stephen . The figure of Mary with baby Jesus on the left on the front wall of the nave was probably created in Nuremberg around 1480. The figure on the right on the front wall shows the church patron; underneath there is a colored relief of the Holy Family . A panel painting of the Madonna in a protective cloak in a version from 1716 comes from the former Öfeleinsmühle and came to the church in 1960. The entrance gate of the church tower , which is crowned by a small pointed dome, is on the north facade.

literature

  • Ramsberg . In: Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bayern I: Franken , 2nd edition 1999, p. 869.
  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district. Monuments in Bavaria, Munich 2000, p. 507f.
  • Ramsberg, Catholic branch church St. Josef . In: Johann Schrenk and Karl Friedrich Zink: God's Houses. Church leaders in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, Treuchtlingen / Berlin 2008, p. 184.
  • Deep faith instead of money. 125 years of St. Joseph's Church in Ramsberg. In: Church newspaper for the diocese of Eichstätt, No. 44 of November 3, 2013.

Web links

Commons : St. Josef (Ramsberg am Brombachsee)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian Office for the Preservation of Monuments
  2. ↑ Monuments in Bavaria, Gotthard Kießling, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, p. 507
  3. ↑ www.naturpark-altmuehltal.de
  4. ↑ Church description on pointoo.de ; Dehio, p. 869

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 5.4 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 3.6 ″  E