St. Matthew (Kothen)

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The church in Kothen
Interior of the church

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Matthäus is the village church of Kothen , a district of Motten in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . It belongs to the architectural monuments of Motten and is registered together with the war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the two world wars under the number D-6-72-134-11 in the Bavarian list of monuments . Like Motten, Bad Brückenau , Römershag , Volkers, Wernarz with Staatsbad , Eckarts, Rupboden and Zeitlofs, Kothen is part of the parish community of St. Georg Bad Brückenau - Maria Ehrenberg .

history

Kothen belonged to the original parish of Oberleichtersbach . In the Middle Ages a church in Kothen already must have passed since the church tower was built at that time. The substructure of the tower points to the 15th to 16th centuries. Between 1550 and 1556, Kothen left the original parish as a branch of Motten . Today's church was built in 1753 under the Fulda abbot Amand von Buseck , which is evidenced by the coat of arms above the chancel. Until the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, the altar was on the ground floor of the old choir tower . In 1954, the Würzburg bishop Julius Döpfner elevated Kothen to an independent parish with the Speicherz branch . The nave was built in 1753 and extended to the east in 1922, relocating the church tower. The transept was added in 1973.

description

The church tower stands as a choir tower in the east. It has an onion roof that ends in a long point. The choir in the basement has a shallow barrel vault . The nave with a trough-shaped ceiling is extended by two transept arms .

Furnishing

The church was furnished in the 18th century. The altar sheet and the excerpt from the high altar depict St. Wendelin and the holy dormice . Both are works by the painter Johann Andreas Herrlein . The side altar only on the right is equipped with a figure of Our Lady . The pulpit takes the place of a side altar on the left. The organ is set up on the western gallery .

organ

The organ set up on the western gallery probably comes from the time the church was built (1753) and has the following disposition (builder unknown):

Manual C, D – c 3
1. Principal 4 ′
2. Dumped 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Quint 2 23
6th Dumped 4 ′
7th Octav 2 ′
8th. Mixture III 1'
9. Pointed flute 4 '
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Wooden octave 4 ′ (added 1979)

literature

  • Handbook of German Art Monuments : Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00359-2 , p. 437
  • Parish Church of St. Matthew. In: Wallfahrtskirche Mariae Himmelfahrt , Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg, 2nd, revised edition 2006, ISBN 3-7954-6541-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Fischer: The organs of the Bad Kissingen district . Bad Kissingen district (Bad Kissingen 1986), p. 134.

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 '12.3 "  N , 9 ° 46' 0.9"  E