St. Joseph (Niederärndt)
The simultaneous church of St. Joseph in the Niederärndt district of the Upper Palatinate community of Edelsfeld in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria is the only simultaneous church in the community of Edelsfeld; From the Catholic side, the church belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Stephanus, Edelsfeld, and from the Protestant side to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office in Edelsfeld.
history
The church was built in the middle of the 12th century and embodies the type of a village church of the early High Middle Ages . At the end of the Carolingian era , these churches consisted of a rectangular nave and a semicircular and recessed apse , that is, compared to the nave, which is narrower and generally east- facing ; instead of a brick church tower, there was usually a roof turret , as was the case here . It was not until the end of the 12th century that the type of a choir tower church established itself .
Already in 1305 the church was mentioned as a branch church of Eschenfelden , which it remained until 1816. Since 1652 it has been owned equally by the Protestant and Catholic parishes. Niederärndt itself belonged to the Hofmark Sinnleiten.
Construction
Today the church is a plastered ashlar building with a gable roof and a recessed, semicircular apse. The west tower with a tent roof was erected in 1892 in place of the previous ridge turret. The semicircular chancel in the east, which is narrower and lower than the nave, remained unchanged. The extremely narrow Romanesque window in the chancel with a sloping reveal also dates from the time it was built. The high Romanesque windows in the nave were subsequently enlarged to form pointed arch windows for better exposure . Under the eaves on the apse is a cornice made of a round bar with a chessboard frieze above , made of sandstone . Otherwise limestone was used for the church . The apse is separated from the nave by an apse arch that rests on transom plates .
The wall sections on the west side of the church give rise to the assumption that the church emerged from a castle chapel. Two wall sections made of hewn dolomite ashlars continue in the line of the nave without visible interlocking and form a square with a side length of 8 m. It is assumed that these are the lower stone layers of a tower castle . The field name Thurnleite , which the plateau between Niederärndt and Edelsfeld bears , also refers to this .
In 2014, with the active help of the local population, an exterior renovation of the chapel was carried out and the roof replaced.
Interior
The original masonry altar table is still in the apse. The pulpit and the unmounted double loft are of Protestant origin and were built in to increase the space available; they date from the Renaissance period . On the circumferential double gallery there are only wooden beams without backrests as simple seating, and there are original folding chairs on both stairs. The sacrificial box built into the gallery column is a curiosity .
The painting The Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt can be seen in the nave .
literature
- Mathias Conrad: Romanesque church in Niederärndt . In amberg information , July / August 1997, pp. 17-21.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simultankirche St. Josef Niederärndt , accessed on July 16, 2020.
- ↑ Divine service in St. Josef Niederärndt , accessed on July 16, 2020.
- ^ Georg Leingärtner : Amberg district judge . Ed .: Commission for Bavarian State History (= Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Old Bavaria, Issue 24). Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7696-9800-2 , p. 101 , above ( [1] [accessed July 16, 2020]).
- ^ Mathias Conrad, 1997, p. 231.
Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 15.7 " N , 11 ° 41 ′ 24.4" E