St. Margaretha (Kastl)
The Catholic parish church of St. Margaretha is located in the municipality of Kastl in the Upper Palatinate district of Tirschenreuth , Bavaria . The formerly fortified cemetery indicates its original use as a fortified church .
The church was entered in the list of architectural monuments in Kastl under the file number D-3-77-128-1 .
history
The church was built in the 12th century. This is indicated by the patronage of St. Margaretha as well as the so-called Boniface stone; the latter is a stone slab with a disc cross and probably belonged to the donor's grave. In 1244 the pastor of Chasten and thus the place was first mentioned in a Leuchtenberg document . In 1283 the Leuchtenbergers sold the bailiwick of the church to Duke Ludwig of Bavaria . In 1326 the bailiwick was mentioned as advocatiam super ecclesiam in Chasten im Duke arable . In 1374 the church was incorporated into the Speinshart Monastery . The builder of the church was Konrad Sparnberger von Wolframshof .
Construction
The parish church of St. Margaretha is a three-aisled late Gothic hall church with a steep gable roof . The retracted, three-sided closed choir , the side chapels and parts of the nave date from the 14th century. The year "1450" can be found on the west portal, which presumably indicates the time of completion. The eastern front walls of the choir probably date from the 14th century, the vault was made around 1461. The four-story tower is from the second half of the 15th century. The baroque onion dome and the lantern are from 1787, the sacristy is from the 17th century.
The core of the churchyard wall dates from the 15th century. From the cemetery wall only a few signs of former strength can be seen (e.g. a former T- notch from the 15th century). In the east the wall was completely demolished in the course of a cemetery expansion; Today only 130 m of the originally 165 m long wall are preserved, which overlooks the cemetery by 2 m.
literature
- Ulrich Kinder (2013): The fortifications in the Tirschenreuth district . (= Work on the archeology of southern Germany. Volume 28), (pp. 142–144). Dr. Faustus, Büchenbach. ISBN 978-3-933474-82-7 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 50.6 ″ N , 11 ° 53 ′ 52.3 ″ E