St. Michael (Wiesau)
The parish church of St. Michael is the Roman Catholic parish church of Wiesau in the northern Upper Palatinate . The church is now west of the center of the village in the middle of the original village and was surrounded by the Wiesau cemetery until 1934, which is now at the Kreuzbergkirche .
history
Since the founding of the Wiesau parish in the 14th century, it was probably the parish church and also led the patronage of St. Michael. A map from the 16th century shows the local church with a relatively short nave and a massive church tower . During the Reformation , pictures and crucifixes were stolen from the church, but in the course of the Counter-Reformation the building was redesigned and got a new altar in 1629 . In the Thirty Years War there was repeated damage caused by soldiers passing through.
At the beginning of the 1660s the old and small church of the village was demolished to make room for a larger house of worship. In the years 1661 to 1663 the nave of the new church and only two years later the steeple was completed. Financing came entirely from the parish's own resources.
The church tower of St. Michael was rebuilt in 1731. A new construction of the church building was also planned, but did not come about due to disputes between the Wiesau pastor Johann Georg Tröster and the abbot of the Waldsassen monastery . The biggest point of contention concerned the monastery’s right to have a say in the construction of the new church. The next attempt to replace the existing parish church with a new building was made in 1747. After the church building had deteriorated into a ruinous state, Pastor Tröster sent a plan to the episcopal consistory in Regensburg , which approved a new building. The abbot von Waldsassen refused to give his consent. In 1753 the monastery builder Philipp Muttone inspected the church; He was denied all activities at the church by the pastor because of the dispute with the monastery. Finally, a little later, the government in Amberg ordered the work to be continued, and so it was finished in 1758.
On May 12, 1770, the vaulted ceiling collapsed due to the construction. From 1773 to 1775 extensive repairs were carried out on the damaged building. Because of structural errors, including this work, cracks appeared in the brick cornice of the church in 1842 . In 1845, renovation work began again and again, which dragged on over a longer period of time.
At the beginning of the 1920s the parish church of St. Michael was renovated again and in 1934 and 1935 the transept and the choir room were added. The inauguration took place in 1936 by the Regensburg Bishop Michael Buchberger . It was at this time that it got its current appearance.
description
The church tower is located at the western end of the nave , to which the transept with the choir is attached. The floor plan of the church symbolizes the Christian cross .
In the nave, the four ceiling paintings show two exultant angels with musical instruments and the secrets of the joyous rosary ( Annunciation of Mary and the birth of Jesus and sacrifice in the temple). The large painting in the transept depicts the mysteries of the glorious rosary ( Resurrection of Jesus Christ and Ascension , Assumption of Mary , Coronation of Mary and the sending of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Trinity).
On the pilasters between the windows there are baroque wooden figures that are probably identical to the figures that were already listed in the inventory in 1885. On the left side are St. Leonhard, St. Franziskus Seraph, St. Florian and St. Stefanus and on the right side St. Antonius, St. Felix, St. Franziskus Xaver and St. Vincentius. On the right side of the transept and next to the right side altar are two similar figures, St. Nepomuk and St. Joseph.
literature
- Busl, Adalbert: Parish Church of St. Michael, Wiesau . Art publisher Peda Gregor, 1989, ISBN 978-3-927296-10-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: List of monuments for Wiesau (PDF; 132 kB)
- ↑ Parish St. Michael Wiesau: The historical and structural development of the parish church "Sankt Michael" in Wiesau ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '48.3 " N , 12 ° 10' 37.8" E