St. Margareta (Leuchtenberg)
The parish church of St. Margareta is a Roman Catholic church building in Markt Leuchtenberg in the Upper Palatinate .
history
The church was consecrated in 1124 by Bishop Otto von Bamberg together with the Church of St. Johannes Baptist von Altenstadt on his first missionary trip to Pomerania ( Duas ecclesias unam in Luckenberge et alterem in Vohendreze consecravit. ). After most of the old church fell victim to a fire in 1842, it was rebuilt using parts of the choir room. In 1885, restoration work began on the interior, the renewal of the main and two side altars as well as the pulpit and the whitewashing of the presbytery . In 1914 three altars were purchased from Egglkofen. In 1950 the interior and exterior of the church were restored. In the course of an exterior renovation, the church windows and the roof were renewed.
Furnishing
Inside the church there is a main altar and two side altars. Eight figures of saints are located around the main altar on the wall of the choir room. A large wooden crucifix hangs on the left wall.
Four steel bells from 1950 hang in the bell tower of the church . These were cast in V-12 ribs by the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture and ring on cranked steel yokes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 39: Vohenstrauß. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich, 1977, p. 69.
- ^ History of the parish of Leuchtenberg , accessed on September 6, 2017.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 50.6 " N , 12 ° 15 ′ 24.1" E