St. Leonhard (Leonberg)

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The parish church of St. Leonhard is the Roman Catholic parish church of the community of Leonberg in the Tirschenreuth district in the northern Upper Palatinate .

history

A previous building was built by Georg Häring in 1716. The current building was designed by the Bärnau master builder Philipp Mühlmayer and was built between 1721 and 1726 using Gothic choir masonry. In the 17th / 18th In the 19th century, a Mount of Olives chapel with a group of figures was built at the entrance to the church.

Interior

The high altar of the church is an acanthus altar from 1724, which was created by the sculptor Karl Stilp with the help of the barrel painter Theodor Freund. The altarpiece depicting the Holy Leonhard praying in front of Our Lady, is a work of Cheb painter. The altar painting by Karl Hofreiter is surrounded by acanthus tendrils and angel figures. On both sides there are figures of Saint Anne with her little daughter Maria and Saint Joachim.

On the left side of the nave next to the choir is the Marien Altar with a statue of the Mother of God with the baby Jesus. Figures of the holy virgins Katharina and Barbara are attached to the sides . At the top, a group of angels with St. Margaret in the middle forms the end of the altar. The other side is dominated by the Leonhard Altar. The figure of Saint Leonhard with a pectoral cross and staff, the symbol of an abbot, stands in the center and is surrounded by statues of Saints Sebastian and Rochus . In the middle of the altar there is a relief of the Madonna made of wax and at the upper end, like the Marian altar, a group of angels surrounds Saint Bernard . Another side altar is located on the north side of the nave. The rococo altar comes from the cemetery chapel and shows the crucifixion of Jesus as an altarpiece with poor souls below and two trumpet angels at the top. Next to it is a statue of the Mother of God from Fockenfeld , which was donated to the church.

The ceiling frescos were created in 1892 by the Tirschenreuth painter and gilder Johann Aichlmayr. They show three scenes from the life of the church patron. The saint is portrayed as a devotee and advocate of the people, as a miracle worker and as a missionary and pilgrim. The nave is decorated with pictures of the twelve apostles, the choir area with pictures of the four evangelists and the four church teachers.

literature

  • Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Leonberg Monument List (PDF; 131 kB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 49.3 "  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 11.7"  E