St. Michael (Bärnau)
The listed Roman Catholic cemetery chapel St. Michael is located in the southeastern area of the Upper Palatinate town of Bärnau (Philipp-Mühlmayer-Straße 11); it is dedicated to the Archangel Michael .
history
The time when the church was built is unknown. However, the cemetery , which was originally located in the city around the parish church of St. Nicholas , was laid out outside the city walls in 1590 and the first cemetery church was probably built in the course of this relocation. From 1644 there is a city view by Matthäus Merian , on which the previous building of today's church is shown. The inscription on a stone that was moved inside the church in 1824 is supposed to describe the history of the chapel; however, the writing is completely weathered and no longer legible.
On July 25, 1779, the church burned down by a lightning strike. In 1771 and 1772 it was rebuilt under Pastor Jacob Anton Weinig . Today the church is a plastered solid structure of a hall church with a shingle-covered half- hipped roof and a ridge turret .
In 1983 it was restored with the help of the Bärnau Kolping Family and the interior was redesigned.
The church was often used as an alternative church instead of the parish church. Today it is used every second Sunday as a place of worship for Evangelical Christians .
Interior
The first cemetery church had three altars. After the fire of 1779, it was equipped with a baroque altar with four columns and two side figures, which are said to have come from a church in Sulzbach . An altarpiece showing St. Michael was purchased separately. Today the picture of the patron saint is on the north wall of the church.
Today the church has a modern stone altar; above it is a half-relief showing St. Michael as a guide from life to death. These pieces of equipment were made by Prof. Baumgartner at the Munich Master School.
A war memorial stone is also placed inside the chapel.
literature
- Christine Brunner-Hastreiter: Bärnau - a home book . Verlag der Stadt Bärnau, Bärnau 1972, pp. 215-217.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 48 ′ 37 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 56.5" E