St. Lucia (Schlammersdorf)

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Lucia in the Upper Palatinate municipality of Schlammersdorf in the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district is part of the Speinshart monastery parish .

history

In 1250 the local nobility Schlammersdorfer founded their own parish here and built a church for which the Regensburg Bishop Siegfried granted tithes . It can be assumed that Schlammersdorf first belonged to the original parish of Mockersdorf . The local nobility provided the pastor with an apartment and income and had the right to present them until 1861 . Schlammersdorf is referred to as a separate parish in the oldest registers of the parishes of the Regensburg diocese from 1286, 1326 and 1438 .

After the religious mandate of Elector Ottheinrich on June 22, 1542, the Upper Palatinate became Lutheran and, according to the principle of Cuius regio, eius religio, made several changes of confession from Lutheranism to Calvinism . After the Upper Palatinate came to Elector Maximilian in the course of the Thirty Years War in 1628 , the Counter-Reformation reintroduced the Catholic faith as a mandatory religion. The Speinshart Monastery initially looked after the Schlammersdorf parish, from 1630 to 1679 Schlammersdorf was a branch of Kirchenthumbach and returned to the Mockersdorf parish as a branch in 1679. In 1711 Schlammersdorf became an independent parish again due to the efforts of cooperator Jakob Hösl.

The old church had, as can be seen on a fresco in the newly built church, a bell tower covered with slate. When the church was rebuilt in 1755, it and the whole church were demolished and a new building was built between 1775 and 1777; instead of the church tower was a roof turret mounted on the western gable. Pastor Georg Michael Brändtl was able to inaugurate the church on July 20, 1777, the solemn consecration took place on July 13, 1778 Auxiliary Bishop Adam Ernst von Bernclau "in honor of the virgin and martyr Luzia ".

The baroque building appeared to be too small in the middle of the 20th century, so that an expansion was considered under Pastor Johann Brunner. Architect Karl Wirthenson worked out the plan for this. The foundation stone was laid on May 16, 1951. The baroque nave was preserved and the church on the choir side was extended by more than double its length.

Construction

Today the building is a hall church with a gable roof . The western nave is made of sandstone blocks. The flank tower is covered with an onion dome and is 30 m high. It was built on the south side in 1952/53 and the former roof turret was removed. A sacristy was added to the north side . The tower clock was delivered by the Rauscher company from Regensburg in 1941, electrified in 1958 and equipped with a radio-synchronous receiving system in 1984.

Interior

The high altar was made in 1780 by Anton Eckmann from Kemnath . The altarpiece shows the death of St. Luzia and was created by Josef Kramolín in 1780 . Assistant figures are (left) St. Peter and (right) St. Paul . Next to the tabernacle there are two reliquary shrines with relics of St. Luzia. There are also statues of St. George and the Archangel Raphael from a later time.

A statue of the Heart of the Virgin Mary and a Brother Conrad statue are placed in the choir room . The late baroque side altars come from the parish church of Auerbach . The altar leaves again come from Josef Kramolín. On the left side altar, St. Franz Xaver depicted on his deathbed; the altar extract is a picture of St. Wendelin , baroque assistance figures are the evangelist Johannes and St. Anthony of Padua . The right side altar is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Johannes Baptist , in the altar extract is a picture of St. Sebastian , which was painted by Joseph Marquard Treu from Bamberg . On the north side there is still an altar of Mary from the previous church. The altarpiece shows the Annunciation , on the altar there are also two late Gothic assistance figures , namely St. Katharina and on the right St. Barbara , the excerpt is a picture of God the Father from a later time.

Schlammersdorf's miraculous image of a lady is lost; but on a tabernacle that was set up in the place of the earlier picture, a copy of the “miraculous Mother of God von Schlammersdorf” is depicted.

A folk altar was made from parts of a baroque communion bench by master carpenter Manfred Pittner and on June 24, 1979 by Auxiliary Bishop Vinzenz Guggenberger in honor of St. Consecrated to Luzia.

The pulpit was created in 1777 by master carpenter Jakob Steinl ein Speinshart. On the sound cover are two tablets with the ten commandments and above them an eye of God . The baptismal font is also from 1777 and was created from light sandstone by Georg Preisinger. The pictures of the Way of the Cross were created in 1872/74 by the painter and gilder Joseph Schrödl from Reinhausen .

Inside the church there is an epitaph on the south side with the letters MFVG , the year 1802 and the Gravenreuth coat of arms, it refers to the death of Moritz Karl Max Josef Freiherr von Gravenreuth , who died here on June 15, 1802. On the northern outer wall is an epitaph by Ernst Freiherr von Hirschberg .

Organ prospect in the Church of St. Lucia

organ

A previous organ was created in 1847 by the organ builder Friedrich Specht from Amberg . It was sold to St. Quirin in Mainz in 1953 . In the same year, the organ building company Michael Weise from Plattling installed a fully pneumatic organ with 16 registers.

Bells

The church has five bells. The oldest is the "women's bell" (125 kg, strike tone d ''), cast by Johann Erhard Kissner from Stadtamhof in 1780 ; it bears the inscription Verbum caro factum est . The "Marienglocke" (260 kg, strike h '), created by the Klaus brothers in Heidingsfeld , dates from 1900 ; it bears the inscription Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum . The three larger bells were made in 1958 by the Georg Hofweber company from Regensburg . The "Michaelsglocke" (400 kg, chime a ') shows the lettering inscription Insurmountably strong hero, St. Michael, come to our aid, save the world, help us fight here, dampen the enemies, St. Michael . The "Luziaglocke" (700 kg, chime f sharp ') carries the refrain of a Lucia song Ave, virgin, martyr, be with God and mediator! O pray for us, Saint Luzia! The largest bell is the "Christ the King's Bell" (1450 kg, strike tone c ') with the inscription Christ, my King, to you alone I swear my love, pure as a lily, and faithful to death .

literature

Benedikt Röder; Josef Püttner: Parish Church of St. Luzia, Schlammersdorf. Schnell & Steiner, Schnell Art Guide No. 2848, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7954-7017-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Churches and chapels in the monastery parish - places of faith in our baroque cultural landscape , accessed on March 28, 2020.

49.802426 11.735844 455Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 8.7 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 9 ″ E

[1] Churches and chapels in the monastery parish - places of faith in our baroque cultural landscape , accessed on March 28, 2020.