St. Katharina (Störnstein)

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St. Katharina in Störnstein around 1920

The castle chapel of St. Katharina , which is now gone , was located in Störnstein , on the Schlossberg. It was demolished on April 16, 1933 in favor of the new St. Salvator Church . The art-historically valuable interior was moved to the new church. In the description of the art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg , the church is erroneously referred to as the Church of the Ascension of Christ and as a side church to Püchersreuth , but a Katharinen patronage has been proven here since the Middle Ages.

history

The church seems to have been built as a late Romanesque building for Störnstein Castle before the 14th century . The wall thickness of the nave, which came to light when it was demolished, shows that it belongs to the earlier castle. The choir with a flat vaulted helmet was added in 1821.

Construction

The axis in the nave was bent to the south. The church had three bays with a pressed barrel vault and stitch caps . There were wall pilasters inside the church . The north gable curved outwards. There was a turret with a domed roof above the choir . The upwardly rounded windows of the church seem to have been added at a later time.

Interior of the castle chapel around 1920

Interior

The main altar was composed of several parts. The central picture of St. Salvator came from the old church of St. Salvator on the harbor deck . It was lined with two leaf-wrapped columns, which were closed at the top with an architrave . Above it was a crucifixion group framed by shellwork from the Rococo period .

The right side altar contained late Gothic, carved half-reliefs with five figures of saints from the 15th century ( St. Barbara , St. Katharina , St. Ursula , St. Dorothea , St. Appollonia ), which have now been placed in the new church. In the upper part of the altar there was a crucifixion group (possibly an earlier main altar of the castle chapel). The altar was provided with a neo-Gothic altar structure. The left side altar contained a Maria Hilf picture from 1634 (inscription: S. Maria ora pro nobis, 1634 ), also embedded in a neo-Gothic frame.

On the west side aisle there was a figure of Mary with a baby Jesus stabbing a dragon with a long cross spear, designed according to the concept of a Mary of Victory (around 1700). On the sole of the protruding foot is an inscription ( KASPAR LERONCI MARTINI TRB ), which designates either the artist or the founder. Another Mary with the baby Jesus dates from 1450. On the gallery was the figure of Anna herself third (around 1500). The pictures of the Stations of the Cross from 1828 came from Thaddäus Rabusky .

Bells

The oldest bell in this church was cast in 1664, it was named as the property of the "Wallensteinschen Katharinenkirche". The latter name goes back to the Wallenstein drama by Friedrich Schiller ; At Felixberg near Neustadt a battle between the Swedes and Imperial troops had taken place during the Thirty Years' War , in which Max Piccolomini, invented by Schiller, died at a Katharinen church. Since Schiller's grandmother was born in the neighboring Erbendorf , it can be assumed that Schiller was familiar with the local conditions and knew the Katharinenkapelle. This bell had to be delivered in the First World War . Another bell from 1712 bore the inscription In honorem S. Catharinae Martyris. Magnus Gabriel Reinburg poured me in Amberg. A smaller bell from 1924 bore the inscription In honorem B. Mariae Reginae Pacis. Josef and Anna Kriechenbauer gave gifts, K. Hamm Regensburg poured me in 1924.

The church was demolished in 1933 and the stones were used for the new building of the Salvatorkirche in Störnstein.

literature

  • Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg, Volume IX, District Office Neustadt an der Waldnaab. 1907 (reprinted by R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 1981), p. 123.
  • R. Streussnig: The castle chapel Sankt Katharina. In 50 years of St. Salvator Störnstein: 1934–1984; Festschrift and chronicle for the festival week from May 28 to June 3, 1984. Störnstein 1984, pp. 17–25.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Mader, 1907, p. 123.
  2. ^ Johannes B. Lehner: The medieval Kirchenpatzrozinien of the diocese of Regensburg. Negotiations of the Historical Association of the Upper Palatinate , Volume 94, p. 78.

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 0.4 ″  N , 12 ° 12 ′ 21.8 ″  E