St. Martin (Oberlauda)
The Roman Catholic baroque church of St. Martin in Oberlauda , a district of Lauda-Königshofen in the Main-Tauber district , was built from 1791 to 1793 according to plans by Balthasar Neumann .
history
According to tradition, St. Martin is the fourth church in this patronage in Oberlauda. The St. Martin consecrated church belongs to the pastoral care unit Lauda-Königshofen , which has been assigned to the deanery Tauberbischofsheim of the Archdiocese of Freiburg since a reform of the deanery on January 1st, 2008 .
Church building
The church, built in a baroque style, has provided space for around 450 church visitors in the pews since 1958. The church has a 29 m high tower and was expanded structurally even after 1793, as in the years 1913 to 1914 and from 1957 to 1958. Church renovations took place in the years 1973 to 1982 and 1991 to 1994.
Furnishing
The organ case from the well-known Franconian master organ builder Johann Philipp Seuffert from 1751 contains an organ from 1905 by Wilhelm Schwarz & Sohn from Überlingen. The high altar in the center of the church was created by the sculptor Zacharias Vombach from Marktheidenfeld . The church also has a popular altar from 1978.
At the high altar of the south side altar there is a Madonna with a star wreath, at the north side exit a representation of the Queen of Mary and a Pietà . One painting shows the Assumption of Mary into heaven . The church has a stone Renaissance pulpit with a representation of the four evangelists . The statue of the church patron Martin is in front of the pulpit.
The church's bell tower has five bells of different sizes. Two of them come from a previous church. All five bells are electronically connected to the city's own tower clock and ring on religious services and other occasions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Pastoral care unit Lauda-Königshofen: Parish Church of St. Martin . Online at www.kath-lauda-koenigshofen.de. Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ^ Deanery Tauberbischofsheim: Pastoral care units of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim . Online at www.kath-dekanat-tbb.de. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
- ↑ a b kath-lauda-koenigshofen.de: Seelsorgeeinheit Lauda-Königshofen Online at www.kath-lauda-koenigshofen.de. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
Parish churches of the pastoral care unit Lauda-Königshofen: Holy Cross (Gerlachsheim) | St. Antonius (Deubach) | St. Burkhard (Messelhausen) | St. Georg (Oberbalbach) | St. James (Lauda) | St. Markus (Unterbalbach) | St. Martin (Oberlauda) | St. Mauritius (Königshofen) with the branches St. Kilian (Beckstein) and St. Josef (Marbach) | St. Vitus (Heckfeld)
Other churches, chapels and crossroads: Friedhofskapelle (Gerlachsheim) | Käppele (Königshofen) | Antonius Chapel (Königshofen) | Chapel of the Holy Sepulcher (Lauda) (also called the Blood Chapel) | Way of the Cross in the cemetery wall (Lauda) next to the Marienkirche (Lauda) | Way of the Cross in the cemetery wall (Beckstein) | Way of the Cross in the cemetery wall (Gerlachsheim) | Way of the Cross in the cemetery wall (Oberlauda) | Way of the Cross to St. Mary's Grotto (Oberlauda) | Mary's Grotto (Lauda) | Mariengrotte (Oberlauda) | Marienkapelle (Hofstetten)
Monasteries: Augustinian monastery Messelhausen (†) | Premonstratensian Monastery Gerlachsheim (†)
(†): Sacred building no longer used
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 59.1 ″ N , 9 ° 40 ′ 39 ″ E