St. Michael (Hofdorf)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael is a branch church in Hofdorf , a village and district of the city of Wörth an der Donau in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria and built in the neo-Gothic style. The church belongs to the parish Pondorf in the diocese of Regensburg .
Previous construction
When a church was first built in Hofdorf cannot be said with certainty. A benefit foundation with daily holy mass can be established as early as 1458. From 1666 the parish of Pondorf provided the community with a cooperator . In 1697 the church was also destroyed in a fire. It was not until 1764 that the church was rebuilt and the tower restored. The church bells, if they were still there, were also cast around. On April 28, 1881, the last service took place in the old church.
History and description of the building
The first efforts to expand or rebuild a church go back to 1870. The new church was built between 1880 and 1882 on the foundations of several previous buildings and was consecrated on April 14, 1883 by the Regensburg Bishop Ignatius . The foundation stone for the new church was laid on June 30, 1880. It is a high single-nave hall church with 14 buttresses. The main portal, the war memorial and the sacristy are in the south, a side entrance in the north. In the west of the church is the 45 meter high octagonal tower with a pointed roof. It is one of the largest in the wider area. The exterior is richly structured by tracery windows, stepped buttresses and stepped plinths.
In 1935 the interior of the church was renovated, and in 1950 it received a new roof. Further extensive and fundamental interior and exterior renovations followed from 1980 to 1982 and 2005. The four dials of the church tower clock were renewed in 1960 and an electric clock was installed. In 1985 the church got an organ . In 1983 the parish celebrated the centenary foundation festival.
particularities
The colorful figural pointed arch windows in the chancel are among the special features of the church. In addition, the building has a profile similar to that of Regensburg Cathedral and has remained unchanged in its exterior and interior since it was built.
Interior details
The neo-Gothic furnishings consist of the high altar with trusses and St. Michael , the patron saint of the church and other angels, as well as two side altars each with net vaults in the chancel and in the nave: the left one with St. Anne, Mary and St. Joseph as well as the Good Shepherd , the right altar with the Saints Sebastian , Florian, Aloisius and Theresia. The pulpit shows reliefs of the four evangelists.
A simple baptismal font , the 14 stations of the cross and a picture of the holy brother Konrad complete the facility.
Bells
After the inauguration of the church in 1883, it got a new bell that was cast by the bell founder Johann Anton Spannagl from Regensburg. However, this had to be handed over to be melted down during the First World War .
In the belfry of the two-storey belfry now houses four bells, three of them were 1950 instead of in the Second World War, in turn melted purchased bells. In 1961 an electric bell was installed.
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Foundry, casting location |
Ø (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Chime |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Michael | 1949 | 1020 | f 1 | In memory of the fallen | ||
| 2 | St. Sebastian | 1949 | 455 | a 1 | "Peace be her first peal" | ||
| 3 | St. Mary | 1949 | 254 | c 1 | "Bless you, Mary, everyone who is here" | ||
| 4th | Death bell | 1927 | 150 | cis 1 |
Others
On the south side of the church there is a war memorial that commemorates the fallen of both world wars.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria V, Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3422030114
- Ludwig Schindler (text author): City guide Wörth. Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2008, ISBN 978-3-936511-52-9 .
- Ludwig Schindler: Large community of the city of Wörth in the past and present. 1st edition. Wörth ad Donau 2001, OCLC 166027622
- Georg Hager: St. Michael., Hofdorf. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Oberpfalz and Regensburg, District Office Regensburg 1910) unchanged reprint 1981, ISBN 3-486-50451-7
Web links
- Official website of the parish
- Official website of the city of Wörth
- Churches in Wörth on the Danube.
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 '25.2 " N , 12 ° 27' 6.8" E