St. Maria Magdalena (Cronheim)
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| Denomination : | Roman Catholic |
| Patronage : | Mary Magdalene |
| Consecration year : | around 1180 |
| Rank: | Parish church |
| Pastor : | Peter Wyzgol |
| Parish : | Catholic Parish of St. Mary Magdalene |
| Address: | Cronheim 166 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany |
Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 44 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 49 ″ E
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Maria Magdalena is a parish church in Cronheim with the church patronage Maria Magdalena . It is an essentially Romanesque fortified church and belongs to the Weißenburg-Wemding deanery in the Eichstätt diocese .
location
The fortified church of St. Maria Magdalena is located in the center of Cronheim west of Gunzenhausen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen at an altitude of 474 meters above sea level . It borders on Cronheim Castle , the southern outer bailey of which it once formed.
architecture
The essentially Romanesque choir tower church faces east-west. The square tower is extended by an octagonal bell tower , which is closed by an onion dome. The slightly wider nave is attached to the west of the tower, creating space for two side altars . It is completed with a choir gallery . The plastered exterior has an architectural structure made of window sashes. There are also corner and cornice strips on the tower. The circular wall and the gate system of the former fortified church have been preserved, although the battlements on the circular wall have been removed and the overall height shortened. The interior of the church is shaped by the rebuilding of the nave carried out in 1898. Most of the interior furnishings date from this period.
Furnishing
An organ gallery is drawn in over the entire depth of the westernmost window axis, it is just closed in the east and is supported by two decorative cast iron columns. The ceiling is decorated with church paintings and frescoes that the Munich painter Bonifaz Locher created in 1910. The pulpit on the north side was created in 1744 by Franz Xaver Bucher in the Hoch Baroque style and originally came from Großenried. In the choir there is an altar monolith weighing tons from the time of construction, which is covered by an aedicular table from 1771. The high altar sheet bears the painting of the patron saint of the church, St. Mary Magdalene. On the left side there is a fully plastic statue of St. Peter with the key in his left hand and on the right the fully plastic standing figure of St. Paul from 1898 with a sword in his left hand. The two side altars, which are made as a two-columned aedicular table in the historicizing neo-baroque style, are adorned with a statue of the Sacred Heart on the left and a statue of Mary with the Christ child on the right, which was probably made around 1520. On the side altars are altarpieces with the four Latin church fathers, probably from the second quarter of the 18th century. Of the small sculptures, a carved statuette of Mary and Christ and a statue of St. John Nepomuk in priestly costume are worth mentioning. There are two glass windows in the nave, which are probably from the extension of the nave in 1898. They show St. Walburga and St. Willibald . The baluster-shaped baptismal font is made of sand-lime stone in the Baroque style and dates from the 17th century. Also in the church are the grave slab (limestone slab with bas-relief) of Friedrich von Eyb's first wife Maria Martha Neustädter called Stürmer († January 17, 1607) as well as the grave slab of Eichstätter Vogt Georg Lorenz Schelldorfer (born January 9, 1698) and the Epitaph probably of a knight from the house of Seckendorff- Schechs from the second half of the 16th century.
history
The parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Cronheim was supposedly founded around 1180 as a result of the Hohenstaufen imperial policy. The church tower was probably built around 1280. However, a pastor was not mentioned in a document for the first time until 1370. Around 1477, Wilhelm von Cronheim had the church expanded as a fortified church , which together with the Allodium Cronheim served as the outer bailey of Cronheim Castle . In 1666 the church was renewed and enlarged. The tower dome was built in the 18th century. In 1889 the battlements were torn down and the curtain wall was removed to its present height. The gate to the south and the shortened curtain wall were largely preserved. Around 1900 the church received a new high altar .
literature
- Karl Ried: Cronheim a former aristocratic seat . Eichstaett 1934
- Karl Gröber and Georg Lill: The Art Monuments of Bavaria, Central Franconia District, Gunzenhausen District Office
- Gotthard Kießling: Monuments in Bavaria . Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district.