St. Laurentius (Roßtal)
The Protestant parish church St. Laurentius is a Romanesque, Gothic converted hall church in Roßtal in the Middle Franconian district of Fürth . It belongs to the parish of St. Laurentius Roßtal in the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Fürth of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .
History and architecture
The place is of Carolingian origin and went from royal possession to the diocese of Bamberg . The hall crypt of the early Romanesque church from 1025-1042 is still preserved. The floor plan of this church, proven by excavations, was much longer to the west than the existing structure and is comparable in type to the Bruno plan of the Würzburg Cathedral from around 1040. The core of the existing nave dates from the 12th and 13th centuries. Century and was rebuilt repeatedly, especially in the period around 1500, with new windows and portals broken into. After it was destroyed in the city war, the tower was rebuilt in 1388, the choir was rebuilt around the middle of the 15th century and the building was provided with a wooden barrel vault and galleries in 1627. The elongated saddle roof of the ship stands in appealing contrast to the high four-story west tower with a baroque hood. On the tower there are tracery windows and friezes made of pointed arches on figural consoles as a structure. The retracted choir ends with a five- eighth end and is closed with a ribbed vault with net figures on both sides of the crown rib.
The impression of the interior is determined by the elongated single-nave nave, which appears to be pressed by the deep barrel vault. The crypt from 1025-1042 is a room with 4 × 5 bays and is closed off by barrel vaults with stitch caps on square stone pillars. The middle of the formerly three small apses has a sandstone cafeteria .
Furnishing
The altar from the late 17th century has a predella with a sculptural crucifixion group. The sandstone pulpit probably dates from 1627 and has a sound cover with rocailles carved from the time after the mid-18th century. The font was created towards the end of the 15th century and is probably from 1630. A wooden figure of St. Lawrence also comes from the end of the 15th century. A painting in a three-part, altar-like aedicula structure bears the date 1524. The Reformation painting shows an interesting representation with the distribution of the Lord's Supper by Luther and Melanchthon to the Protestant princes. An epitaph painting was created in 1693. Among the numerous epitaphs, the one for Pastor Neff († 1512) is particularly noteworthy. Outside at the end of the choir there is a mount of olives with faded wall paintings; the rustic figures were created around 1500. The organ was made by the Walcker company in 1973.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 896-897.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the church on the website of the parish of Roßtal. Retrieved December 18, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '49.4 " N , 10 ° 53' 6.2" E