St. Josef (Wildflecken)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Josef is the church of Wildflecken in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . The church is one of the architectural monuments of Wildflecken and, together with the churchyard wall and two cemetery crosses, is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-163-2. The parish Wildflecken / Oberwildflecken together with the parish Oberbach and Kuratie Riedenberg part of the parish community Upper Sinngrund.
history
Wildflecken belonged to Oberbach as a branch and initially had no church of its own. Since the Oberbach church was quite small, permission was finally granted to build a chapel in Wildflecken in 1716. The chapel was built by the Wall Johann and Valtin Abert and consecrated in 1717. The pastoral care continued to be taken over by the parish of Oberbach. Efforts to find a local pastor were unsuccessful. Between 1928 and 1929 the architect Ludwig Sator from Mannheim expanded the church. In 1930, the Würzburg bishop Matthias Ehrenfried inaugurated the enlarged church. The establishment of the Wildflecken military training area increased the population. That is why Wildflecken was raised to an independent parish in 1951. In 1998 the roof of the church was renewed and in 2000 the interior of the church was renovated.
description
The church faces east. Over the eastern choir one's roof skylights built. The nave has been expanded to include a slightly wider extension to the west. In the middle of the high altar there is a crucifixion group , on the side altars there are figures of the Virgin and Child (left) and the church patron Joseph (right). Figures of the four evangelists are attached to the pulpit . The organ is set up on the western gallery. The door frame of the main portal on the north side shows scenes from the life of St. Joseph, created in 1929 by Ruth Schaumann from Munich. The coat of arms of Bishop Ehrenfried is placed above the main portal.
Web links
literature
- Gerwin Kellermann: 400 years of Oberbach parish. Oberbach 1990.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments: Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00359-2 , p. 889.
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '26.4 " N , 9 ° 54' 27.4" E