St. Mauritius (St. Leon-Rot)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mauritius in St. Leon-Rot in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg goes back to a medieval chapel . Its tower dates from the late 15th century, the nave was renewed in 1812 and expanded in 1877 and 1958.
history
The church in the district of Rot has its origins in a medieval chapel that was once a branch of St. Leon, before Rot was raised to a parish in 1476 with the approval of Bishop Matthias von Rammung . Probably in the same year, at the instigation of the bishop, a new church was built, dedicated to St. Mauritius was consecrated. The tower of the church is from this time. The nave was renovated from 1812 and inaugurated on January 13, 1814 by the local pastor. In 1877 the church was expanded to include a new choir and altar area as well as the sacristy , in 1958 the extension was demolished and replaced by a new, more spacious extension. On November 9, 1958, the church was consecrated anew by Bishop Hermann Schäufele . In 1977 the church was extensively renovated , deliberately keeping it simple. In 1983, the outside of the church was renovated , with a new two-tone paint scheme that picks up on the historical color scheme according to structural findings.
The original cemetery of Rot was once around the church. After the nave was enlarged, it was moved to the other side of the street in 1813, but in 1877 the present cemetery was laid out outside the town center. A stone cross in the courtyard of the old school reminds us of the second cemetery by the church, which existed between 1813 and 1877.
description
The Church of St. Mauritius is a single-nave church building with the choir facing east. On the western gable side is the retracted bell tower, which has a square base and an octagonal attachment with a pointed helmet . The basement of the tower serves as the entrance and anteroom of the church and has a late Gothic vault and an old carved crucifixion group by an unknown master. The western part of the nave is the old nave from 1812, which widens to the east into the spacious transverse building from 1958 and ends with a barely noticeable rounded choir the width of the old nave. The roof landscape of the church forms a cross shape.
The interior of the church is kept very simple and is covered by a wooden ceiling. Altar, pulpit and baptismal font are made of shell limestone . As plaster relief crossroads result and executed the bronze reliefs on the side altars created by the sculptor Oskar Steidle .
On the gallery there is an organ with about 3000 pipes , which was built by Friedrich Heissler in Markelsheim and thoroughly overhauled in 1983 by Karl Göckel from Malsch .
literature
- Antje Buhtz and Karl Frischauer: The church, center of the community , in: Community St. Leon-Rot (Ed.): St. Leon-Rot then and now , St. Leon-Rot 1994, pp. 315–381.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 52.3 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 50.5" E