St. Laurentius (Thundorf)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Laurentius is located in the Bavarian municipality of Thundorf in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . She is the St. Consecrated to Lawrence of Rome .
The church is located in the former moated castle of Thundorf , which is one of the Thundorf architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-157-3 .
history
Beginnings (1816/1817)
Before the construction of today's St. Laurentius Church, there was already a parish church in Thundorf with the mountain church, but it had to be demolished in 1816 due to dilapidation. Thereupon the former moated castle of the place, which had been owned by the Lords of Thundorf, was rebuilt by order of the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1816 to 1817 into today's classical St. Laurentius Church. The church itself emerged from the younger wing of the palace, while the old wing of the palace served as a rectory until 1964. The construction work was carried out by master builder Büttner; the total cost was 10,000 florins.
On the outside facade of the church, on the tympanum of the gable, there is an approximately 150 cm wide and 100 cm high sandstone relief depicting the resurrection of Christ . It was created around 1620 as a late work by the sculptor Julius Emes. Based on the age of the relief, it can be assumed that it was initially located above the entrance to the mountain church and after its demolition in 1816 it was moved to the St. Laurentius Church. The relief shows stylistic similarities with the established by Emes, in Mainfränkisches Museum located Epitaph for Valentin Echter von Mespelbrunn (the brother of the Würzburg Prince Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn ), but was probably not intended, due to its size as a tomb.
Interior
Most of the interior, such as the pulpit and the confessional below (both early 19th century), date from the 19th and 20th centuries. Probably the oldest of the numerous figures of saints in the church from the 19th century is the baroque Radiant Madonna , which is located in the new south wing of the church.
The original, no longer existing altar of the church was made in the historicist style by the Bad Kissingen sculptor Valentin Weidner . The Thundorf pastor Metzler had given Weidner the corresponding order in 1885. The design of Weidner's altar can be traced back to the photographs that a Viennese picture publisher made before the Second World War for the publication “Gott bless our home!”, An illustrated book with church photographs.
The altar housed a sculpture of the church patron St. Michael in the middle . Weidner also made an identical half-size St. Michael figure for St. Michaels Church in Albertshausen . The St. Michaels figure of the Thundorf Church is flanked by sculptures of St. Joseph and St. Lawrence of Rome , the second patron of the Thundorf Church. The left side altar housed a sculpture of St. Mary , flanked by two female saints. The right side altar housed the sculpture of a holy bishop (possibly St. Kilian ?) Who was flanked by St. Anthony of Padua and St. Wendelin . Stations of the Stations of the Cross painted on metal panels in the area of the altar in the photographs of the Wiener Bildverlag, which were later brought to the parish hall. However, Weidner probably did not create the Stations of the Cross himself, but merely mediated or procured them.
As part of a church renovation, Weidner's altar was dismantled under Pastor Seufert and a classical altar with a crucifixion group was set up in 1957 - adapted to the style of the pulpit ; the side altars have also been replaced. The right figure of the crucifixion group of the main altar is not, as is usual, John, but St. Joseph . The two wooden figures on the altar depicting Mary and Joseph were located between 1820 and 1940 in the niches above the side entrances on the east facade of the church.
Both side altars are decorated with oil paintings with gilded frames, each frame being crowned by a leaf garland held by angels. The oil painting on the left side altar shows the “stigmatization of St. Franziskus ”and possibly comes from Johann Baptist de Röll, while the oil painting on the right side altar depicts St. Johannes Nepomuk and was possibly created by Oswald Oghers. Both paintings are said to have come to Thundorf after the dissolution of the Bildhausen Abbey and were restored by the Würzburg painter Hans Klein after their rediscovery in the attic of the St. Laurentius Church in 1932 .
The left side altar houses figures of St. Laurentius and St. Barbara , the right side altar the figures of St. Margareta and St. Wendelin .
Twentieth century
On the occasion of the centenary of the construction of the church, it was renovated in 1917. After renovations, it was re-consecrated in 1922 by the Archbishop of Bamberg, Johann Jakob von Hauck .
In 1976/77, as part of a renovation of the castle, another reconstruction of the church took place, whereby this was supplemented by a flat south wing with a round baptistery in the form of a conche . The renovation work was carried out by the Schweinfurt architect Emil Mai and took fourteen months. During the foundation of the new building, numerous oak piles were discovered in addition to the previously known remains of the castle wall, which suggest an earlier building that was built on oak piles because of the marshy terrain.
The interior of the church was renovated in 1999/2000.
literature
- Rainer Schüler: The architectural and field monuments of the Thundorf community in the districts of Thundorf, Theinfeld and Rothhausen , 1981, pp. 108–118
- Werner Eberth : Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptors of Historicism in Franconia , additions to "Kissinger Heft" Volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996, pp. 27-30
- 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. 1021
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Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 55.9 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 15 ″ E