St. Laurentius (Reiterswiesen)
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| place | Arnshausen |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| diocese | Diocese of Würzburg |
| Patronage | Lawrence of Rome |
| Construction year | 1900 |
| Construction type | Hall church |
| function | Parish church |
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Laurentius is a church in Reiterswiesen , Bavaria , a district of the spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-229 in the Bavarian monument list .
The church, built between 1898 and 1900 based on a design by the architect Carl Krampf , is the third church building in the town to have been consecrated to Saint Lawrence of Rome in the course of Reiterswiesen's history .
history
St. Laurentius Church (16th century)
Two ecclesiastical jurisdictions from 1584 and 1585 as well as a communication from the parish administrator Wolfgang Scharpff dated January 3, 1598 suggest that there was a church consecrated to St. Laurentius in Reiterswiesen as early as the 16th century.
St. Laurentius Church (1607)
Since the previous church building in the town turned out to be too small due to the growing population, the Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn commissioned the construction of a new church, also dedicated to St. Laurentius, on October 16, 1607.
The choir tower church was provided with the characteristic Julius Echter tower and was located on the now greened area on the corner of Flurstrasse. By penetrating its west side into Kissinger Straße, the church separated the upper and lower village like a bolt.
The construction costs of the church building, which was completed in 1608, amounted to 193 guilders , 2 pounds, 7 pfennigs. Due to Julius Echter's church building, the chapel of Botenlauben Castle in Reiterswiesen lost its function as a place of worship for the place.
The sculptor Michael Arnold , who died in Bad Bocklet , made the altarpiece for the St. Laurentius Church in 1873 . The statue of the “Risen One” and the monstrance with which the church was endowed are still in use today.
An old measuring sheet allows the exact reconstruction of the location of the east-facing church. At the location of the church tower opposite the old town hall there is now a cross; the nave ran over today's Kissinger Strasse .
St. Laurentius Church (1900)
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Since the previous St. Laurentius Church had become too narrow due to the increasing population of Reiterswiesen, a church building fund was established in September 1877; its financial basis of 1,000 marks was donated by the "pig dealer" Peter Ziegler from the inheritance of his late wife Elisabeth. On October 28, 1895 a building commission was established; For the new church designed by the architect Carl Krampf , the property of the Reiterswiesen couple Michael and Regina Mauder was purchased for 7,000 marks. By December 18, 1896, the church building fund had grown to 23,103 marks.
After a meeting of parishioners had settled the financing of the construction costs on December 12, 1897, construction work began on September 5, 1898; the inauguration of St. Laurentius of Rome consecrated church took place on June 19, 1900. The construction costs amounted to 85,000 marks , while the interior decoration cost a further 17,000 marks.
On September 29, 1901, it was decided to sell the inventory of the old church. Her pulpit was brought into the courtyard of "Bishop Juerg", where it remained for the next few decades. The altarpiece from the former St. Laurentius Church created by Michael Arnold was taken over and is now in the side aisle of the new church building. The organ was installed by the Steinmeyer company (Öttingen) in 1900.
The old church itself was demolished in 1902; On this occasion, the remains of the very first Reiterswiesener St. Laurentius Church were found .
In 1928 a war memorial was erected in front of the church in memory of the Reiterswiesen war victims (fallen and missing) of the First World War . It is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian Monument List under the number D-6-72-114-229. The monument, created by Bruno Brand in 1928, depicts the dragon slayer St. George , who is on a pedestal framed by columns .
During the Second World War , the bells had to be delivered to the church for armament purposes. HH Pater Sperl MSC organized the purchase of new bells, which on April 30, 1950 by Cathedral Capitular Dr. Staab were consecrated.
From 1981 to 1984 there was extensive interior and exterior renovation of the church. In this context, the then parish council chairman Arnold Greubel wrote a document with historical information about Reiterswiesen as well as all of Germany; this certificate was deposited in the tower ball on May 20, 1982, Ascension Day .
architecture
The church, built in neo-Romanesque style, is a cross-shaped hall with a facade tower, transept and round choir in the east. The external appearance is characterized by its bosswork . House work can only be found in the sparing architectural structures; their formal language is to some extent inspired by the school-like neo-romanticism .
The church tower stands west in the central axis of the nave .
The large room is equipped with a flat wooden ceiling on support brackets. The transept has round niches for the side altars . The hall is oriented towards the strongly drawn-in, vaulted choir, which is closed by a round apse .
Furnishing
In its present form, the interior of the church goes back to the renovation in 1983/1984. In addition to the altar table and various figures, the stained glass of the apse windows have been preserved from the original furnishings . the stained glass labeled “Diebeler und Burkert Glasmalerei Würzburg” show St. Lawrence of Rome .
The portrait of the martyrdom of St.Petersburg, made as an altarpiece by the sculptor Michael Arnold in 1873. Laurentius von Rome of the former St. Laurentius Church is now in the side aisle of the current St. Laurentius Church. It bears the signature "Michael Arnold pinxit 1873" . The judge of St. Laurentius, the Roman emperor and persecutor of Christians, Valerian, wears the facial features of the Chancellor - alluding to Otto von Bismarck 's " Kulturkampf ".
The Stations of the Cross are a scaled-down copy of the Way of the Cross, which was made by the painter Gebhard Fugel for the Munich St. Joseph's Church in 1904–1908 and which was lost in the Second World War .
In the baptistery there is a Madonna figure from the first half of the 18th century.
literature
- Arnold Greubel: Reiterswiesener Chronik. History of Bodenlauben Castle, the hamlet of Unterbodenlauben and the Reiterswiesen village. Reiterswiesen 1975.
- Vereinsring Reiterswiesen, party committee 750-year celebration (Ed.), Bernhard Renninger: 750 years Reiterswiesen. Reiterswiesen 1984.
- Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 .
- Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 878
- Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold - A sculptor of late classicism , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2001, p. 178
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Greubel: Reiterswiesener Chronik. History of Bodenlauben Castle, the hamlet of Unterbodenlauben and the Reiterswiesen village. Reiterswiesen 1975, p. 61
- ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 150 .
- ↑ a b c Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold - A Sculptor of Late Classicism , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2001, p. 178
- ^ Arnold Greubel: Reiterswiesener Chronik. History of Bodenlauben Castle, the hamlet of Unterbodenlauben and the Reiterswiesen village. Reiterswiesen 1975, p. 68
- ^ A b Arnold Greubel: Reiterswiesener Chronik. History of Bodenlauben Castle, the hamlet of Unterbodenlauben and the Reiterswiesen village. Reiterswiesen 1975, p. 69
- ^ Arnold Greubel: Reiterswiesener Chronik. History of Bodenlauben Castle, the hamlet of Unterbodenlauben and the Reiterswiesen village. Reiterswiesen 1975, p. 70
- ^ Arnold Greubel: Reiterswiesener Chronik. History of Bodenlauben Castle, the hamlet of Unterbodenlauben and the Reiterswiesen village. Reiterswiesen 1975, p. 71
- ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 152 f .
- ^ A b Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments [ed.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 150 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 3 ″ N , 10 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E