St. Michael (Bürstadt)

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Church tower of St. Michael
inner space
Eisenbarth organ (2005)

The Catholic parish church of St. Michael is a listed church building in Bürstadt in the Bergstrasse district ( Hesse ).

History and architecture

The church was built from 1731 to 1736 according to plans by JJ Rischer under the supervision of the Mainz master craftsman J. Weydt and consecrated in 1753 . The hall building with a retracted, three-sided closed choir and external structure by corner pilasters was enlarged in 1930 by a baroque extension in the north-south axis. The old church thus became the transept of the new church. The barrel-vaulted ceiling with bandwork stucco comes from Paul Löb from Mainz. The lower floors of the west tower are from the beginning of the 16th century, the superstructure and the baroque dome from 1756.

Furnishing

  • The former two-story high altar canopy from 1910 comes from the Mainz Cathedral
  • Of the high altar created by Andreas Diettmann in 1783 , only the substructure in the old choir and the three large statues of saints of St. Michael and Peter and Paul are preserved.
  • The well-known glass painter Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt created glass windows .
  • Wooden sculptures of St. Wendelin and Johann von Nepomuk from 1781
  • four-part chimes with the beat sequence c´-es´-f´-g´ cast in 1959 by FW Schilling in Heidelberg.

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966.

Web links

Commons : St. Michael  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 108 and 109 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 30 "  N , 8 ° 27 ′ 11"  E