St. Lorenz (courtyard)

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St. Lorenz Church

The Church of St. Lorenz has been a Protestant church building in Hof since the Reformation . As the oldest church in the city, it is considered the mother church of Upper Franconia .

history

The parish of St. Lorenz was first mentioned in 1214 on the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria in a document from the pleban Albert, the church building has since been destroyed several times by fires and wars and changed and expanded over the centuries.

Hertnid altar

A dispute that went through the 14th century is documented: the rich mother parish of St. Lorenz in Hof was to be occupied by a Bamberg canon at the urging of the Bamberg bishop with the support of the Pope . The Hofer pastor from the von Weißelsdorf family opposed this order in 1374, he was relieved of his office and an interdict was pronounced over the parish ; The rulers, the bailiffs of Weida and the Nuremberg burgraves were also banned from church . In 1374, the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich V removed the parish church of Steben and the chapel of Naila from belonging to St. Lorenz and transferred the feudal and occupation rights to Count Otto von Orlamünde and his descendants.

As the mother church, the parish in the 15th century comprised the present-day district of Hof and extended with Gefell and Hirschberg to the south of Thuringia and with Großzöbern and Bobenneukirchen to the south-west of Saxony . The border location between Kursachsen and Brandenburg-Kulmbach led to lengthy negotiations about the so-called dispute parishes ; the dispute between Saxony and Bavaria was finally settled in 1844.

In the 15th century the church lost its importance due to the upswing of the Michaeliskirche . In 1553, during the siege of Hof in the Second Margrave War , St. Lorenz was looted and burned down, a few years later the church was rebuilt. The inventory includes three pastor pictures from the years 1653, 1710 and 1732, which come from the members of the Hofer painter family Lohe, Heinrich Andreas and Heinrich Matthäus . The table altar was commissioned by Hertnid von Stein . 1674 was the ridge turret in the middle of the church roof replaced by a tower above the main entrance, which was equipped with a 1676 clock tower. In 1822 the church was fundamentally redesigned in the classical style.

  • Lithograph by Georg Könitzer around 1850 with the cemetery that was abandoned in 1906

  • Another lithograph with a view from the east

  • View of St. Lorenz with the former cantor's house

  • View from the parish

organ

Walcker organ of the St. Lorenz Church

The organ was built by the Walcker company and restored in 2012 by the  Orgelbau Hörl company from Helmbrechts .

I main work C – f 3
Quintad 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Principal 2 ′
Sharp V 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Pedals C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Open bass 8th'
Basszink III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Back set III 1'
Choral bass 4 ′
Trumpet 8th'

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Lorenz (Hof)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bamberg State Archives, Bamberg Documents No. 467
  2. ^ Albert Frotscher: The old fortified church of St. Walburga in Bad Steben . Ev.-luth. Parish Bad Steben. Naila 1985. pp. 5f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 '52.8 "  N , 11 ° 55' 4.7"  E