St. Kilian (Dietersdorf)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Kilian in Dietersdorf in Upper Franconia , a district of Seßlach in the Coburg district , dates back to the 13th century.
history
The time when the church was built is unknown. The patronage of the Franconian Apostle Kilian suggests that the church is very old. Possibly it was a manorial church owned by the lords of Dittersdorf, verifiable towards the end of the 13th century. In the 14th century, the Lords of Lichtenstein owned the church patronage, which passed to Langheim Abbey in 1338 . Even then, St. Kilian was a branch church of the parish of Seßlach.
The base of the tower dates from the 13th century, the bell storey probably from the second half of the 16th century. The core of the nave is late medieval . The current shape of the choir arch was created in the first half of the 17th century. The windows, door frames and the sacristy are dated around 1880.
During the Thirty Years' War , the church was burned down by imperial troops in 1632 . In 1664 the nave and the tower were covered again. The rest of the reconstruction work dragged on until 1744. An extensive exterior and interior renovation took place in 1978. In 2006 the chancel and high altar were restored. In 2008 a new altar, a new ambo and a new baptismal font were placed. On July 8, 2008, the work was completed with an altar consecration by Archbishop Ludwig Schick .
Building description
The Gothic choir tower church stands on a hilltop in the north-western part of the village. It faces northeast and is largely surrounded by a partly medieval cemetery wall made of broken block masonry.
The sturdy tower has a square floor plan and houses the somewhat recessed choir on the basement level , which is spanned by a ribbed vault. The ribs have a throat profile. They outgrow the corners without consoles and end in a disc keystone, which is decorated with a relief of a four-leaf clover. On each side there is a modern pointed arch window in a plastered reveal. Above that there are small, square openings and on the northeast side there is a late medieval, ogival slit window. The bell storey, in which four bells hang, has two rectangular sound openings on each side of the tower. The conclusion is a pointed, octagonal, slate-roofed tower spire over a horizontal eaves cornice. On the northeast side of the tower is the neo-Gothic sacristy extension, which is connected to the chancel by a rectangular door. The extension has a three-eighth end, a hipped roof and pointed arched windows.
A simple, round choir arch connects the choir with the nave, which is spanned by a modern wooden ceiling on a longitudinal girder. There is a tiled gable roof above . The nave has two window axes with recently enlarged, pointed arched windows with a plastered reveal. The ogival entrance is located in a niche on the southeast side. The wooden, neo-Gothic organ gallery has a boarded parapet with a pointed arch frieze. The church walls consist of plastered, coarse chunks of sandstone masonry. The facade is very simple and barely structured.
Furnishing
The high altar dates from the last quarter of the 17th century. It has a marbled wood structure with gilded decoration, consisting of two Corinthian columns with a cranked horizontal cornice and two arched gable legs. In the middle is the arched, framed altarpiece. It shows a crucifix with the painful Mother of God. The oil painting from the late 18th century was originally in the castle chapel in Dankenfeld . A pull-out frame with a cornice and an obelisk forms the upper end. Inside is a closed, arched panel painting, in oil on canvas, depicting the Crowning of Mary. The tabernacle with its neo-baroque housing is of modern origin.
On the side of the high altar there were small wooden statues from the 18th century, originally not belonging to it, on two consoles, on the left a painful Mother of God and on the right the evangelist John. These figures have been framing a crucifix on the left wall of the nave since 2006.
To the left of the choir arch is a wooden figure of a standing Mother of God with a halo, probably from the first half of the 18th century. The Franconian Apostle Kilian is depicted on the right-hand side by a wooden sculpture as a bishop with a crook and a book. It dates from the end of the 17th century or the beginning of the 18th century.
Next to it is the sandstone pulpit on the right chancel arch pillar. It consists of a square, thin base, an eight-sided shaft on a sloping foot and an eight-sided basket with parapet fields with bas-reliefs. The year 1610 is incorporated into one field. The others are decorated with post-Gothic tracery and rough rosette motifs. The pulpit originally stood in the parish church in Seßlach and came to Dietersdorf in 1693 after the renovation there.
The altar, ambo and baptismal font date from 2008 and are the work of the Hofheim sculptor and master stonemason Siegbert Lenhardt.
organ
In 1903, the Nuremberg organ builder Johannes Strebel built the organ as Opus 103 with six stops on a manual and pedal . In 2005 the instrument was restored. The three-part organ front consists of a lower middle and two higher side panels in a rectangular shape. The pipe fields are closed by round arches.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 85.
- ↑ a b c d e Karl Ludwig Lippert: Bavarian art monuments, district Staffelstein. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich 1968, p. 82 f.
- ↑ a b c Homepage of the parish of Seßlach: The St. Kilian branch church in the Seßlach district of Dietersdorf
- ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Alte Orgeln im Coburger Land, Part IV. Yearbook of the Coburg Landesstiftung 1980, p. 122.
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 9 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 17 ″ E