St. Mary Magdalene (Ranna)

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Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Ranna (2017)

The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Maria Magdalena is located in the Ranna district of the Upper Palatinate town of Auerbach in the Upper Palatinate in the Amberg-Sulzbach district of Bavaria . The church belongs to the parish of St. John the Baptist in Auerbach in the diocese of Bamberg .

history

The previous building of this church was built as the hammer chapel of the hammer Ranna at the end of the 14th century by the hammer gentleman Hartman Fugler. The patronage was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene , she is also the patroness of hammermen and blacksmiths. After the Thirty Years' War , a report to the Auerbach magistrate shows that the hammer mill "completely perished in 1650, the Eysenwerkh and the bells themselves got over there".

The pastor at the time, Johann Christoph Bayer, reported to Elector Karl Ludwig I on October 18, 1655 about the desolate condition of the chapel and suggested its restoration by the Auerbach magistrate. This took place and the church was completed in 1657 and consecrated on Magdalenentag ( July 22nd ). From then on there was a procession from Auerbach to Ranna every year , with a festival service being celebrated in the chapel.

The year with the donor's name on the Magdalenenkapelle in Ranna

After the “Kappellerl” became dilapidated again, the Auerbach parish priest Johann Friedrich Trettenbach, himself the son of a master blacksmith and very fond of hammering, had the current church built on the Löhnersberg in 1742 and 1743 at his own expense. A plaque above the entrance contains the inscription "IFTB - 1743" and reminds of the founder Johann Friedrich Trettenbach and the year of consecration. In 1747 the pastor Trettenbach also donated the two bells of the church.

Construction

The church is a plastered, three-sided closed solid building with a hipped roof and an onion roof turret . The exterior renovation of the church was completed in 2008, with the staircase and exterior facilities also being redesigned; interior renovation began in June 2015.

Interior

The baroque altarpiece represents St. Mary Magdalene represents; next to it are statues of the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul . In the altar extract there is a representation of the Most Holy Trinity . The altar was built around 1743, has four columns and is decorated with foliage, ribbon and latticework on the sides. It was created by the Auerbach sculptor Johann Michael Doser . On the pulpit , statues of the four church fathers were depicted with acanthus decorations. It was also made at the beginning of the 18th century. The pulpit was dismantled in the mid-1950s and the figures were placed in the chapel's choir.

Pastor Johann Ritter had the ceiling painting painted by the Munich painter Heinrich Diermaier around 1946. It shows Mary Magdalene at the empty tomb of Jesus, where she is looking for the crucified one.

In 1971 the chapel was robbed, and statues of the four evangelists (probably still from the Hammerkapelle), six candlesticks, five putti , six angels, a figure of Christ and an image of Mary disappeared . The image of Mary was found again, the perpetrators were not caught. Except for the four evangelists, most of the figures were recreated by a Nuremberg artist.

Bells

The church has two bells that were donated by Pastor Trettenbach in 1747. The church patron Saint Magdalena, floating above the clouds, can be seen on the larger bell weighing 60 kg. To her left is a cross, next to it is a not clearly recognizable human figure and underneath a skull. Above it is the inscription, "Joseph Neumair von Stadt am Hoff poured me in 1747." In 1942 only the smaller bell had to be given for war purposes, the Magdalene bell remained in the church. The second bell hanging in the tower today is simply made without any representations; the bell foundry is not known.

literature

  • Georg Hager: The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria - District Office Eschenbach. Munich 1909, p. 123.

Web links

Commons : St. Maria Magdalena (Ranna)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filialkirche St. Magdalena Ranna on the homepage of the parish of St. John the Baptist in Auerbach, accessed on August 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ Ranna: The looting of the Magdalenenkirche in retrospect Northern Bavaria 40 years after the looting: perpetrators were never caught. Nordbayerische Nachrichten of February 3, 2017, accessed on August 18, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 32.5 ″  E