St. Laurentius and Assumption of Mary (Fridritt)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Laurentius and Assumption of Mary is located in Fridritt , a district of the city of Münnerstadt in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . She is the St. Laurentius of Rome and the Assumption of Mary.
The church is one of the monuments of Munich and is registered under the number D-6-72-135-122 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
First pilgrimage chapel
Fridritt was - especially after the Thirty Years War - a popular place of pilgrimage; the pilgrims were looked after by pastors from Wermerichshausen (now part of Münnerstadt) and the Bildhausen monastery . That the pilgrimage existed before the Thirty Years War can be concluded from a note by the historian Ignaz Gropp , according to which the pilgrimage ended in the chaos of war, as well as from a report on earlier pilgrimages by Valentin IV, Abbot of the Bildhausen Monastery, from the year 1656 to the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Johann Melchior Söllner.
At this time there was already a first chapel, possibly built in the 14th century, which was possibly on the site of the sacristy of today's Fridritter Church. Nothing is known about the origins of this chapel. The high altar was the Mother of God , the right side altar to St. Laurentius of Rome and the left side altar dedicated to the holy apostles. After the Thirty Years War, damage to the chapel was repaired, with the Münnerstadt painter Adam Eigenbrodt painting the windows and plastering of the chapel.
According to legend, sighs were to be heard in the chapel on the evenings before the Marian feasts ; A little bell is said to have rung at the Marian feasts.
St. Lawrence and the Assumption
As the number of pilgrims increasingly increased and also the construction of a gallery church in 1728 dilapidated chapel was no longer sufficient, consisting initiated Königshofen originating Wermerichshausener pastor Kaspar Indau (1733-1768) the construction of the present St. Lawrence and the Assumption 's Church under the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim . The construction of the church was financed from the pilgrims' sacrificial money, later Pastor Indau also bequeathed his fortune to the St. Laurentius and Assumption Church.
The church was built with the construction of the nave from June 23, 1734 to 1737 under the master builder Georg Tantzer from Ebern .
The high altar , which was built in 1737 by the Neustadt artist Benedict Lux, was financed by the Bildhausen monastery . The high altar bears the coat of arms of Engelbert Klöpfel, the abbot of the monastery. The appearance of Mary with the Son of God to St. Bernhard von Clairvaux selected. The side figures represent (from left to right) St. Aquilin , St. Kilian , St. Engelbert and St. Johannes Nepomuk .
On the left side altar, standing on a gold background, is the pilgrimage figure of Mary and Child from the middle of the 14th century . The figure of Mary is supported by life-size columns of St. Joachim and Anna , the parents of Mary, as well as their other relatives, St. Zacharias and St. Elisabeth flanked. The right side altar houses the four evangelists on both sides of the altarpiece depicting the rich fish catch.
In the pulpit there are the statues of the church fathers Gregorius, Augustine , Ambrosius and Hieronymus in four niches .
The organ was created in 1738 by Johann Philipp Seuffert .
The early Gothic church tower was raised around 1775; In this context, a rollover from the Kissingen master carpenter Johann Streit has been preserved.
The church was renovated several times, including in 1867.
Since 2002 the church has been one of the stations on the Franconian Marienweg .
literature
- Wendelin Volk: Church and pilgrimage history of the Fridritt community , 1982
- Erich Schneider: Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary and St. Laurentius zu Fridritt , Art Guide No. 1421, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 1983
- Georg Dehio : 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. 361
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wendelin Volk: Church and pilgrimage history of the community of Fridritt , 1982, p. 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, reviewed and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 361
- ↑ Die Kunstdenkmäler , Bez.-Amt Kissingen, Heft X (1914), p. 106, Kaplan Joh. Schurk
- ↑ "Fränkischer Marienweg" - Route 4 (graphic representation)
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 34.5 " N , 10 ° 15 ′ 14.7" E