St. Nicholas (Luhe)
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Nikolaus is located in the Oberpfälzer Markt Luhe-Wildenau on the Koppelberg (Glaubwieser Straße 37).
history
The church was mentioned as early as the 12th century. In 1376 the Prague Archbishop Johann von Jenstein , Luhe belonged to Bohemia at that time , granted this church the right to indulgences , which became the occasion for a pilgrimage.
In the course of the Calvinism introduced in Luhe in 1617 , the church was also broken into on May 30, 1617 and all pictures (St. Nicholas, St. Gregorius) and statues were removed so that only the stalls and empty altars remained in the church. But since the Catholic Duke Maximilian had defeated Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate in the battle of the White Mountain on November 8, 1621 , Catholic services could be held again from this time. The church was supplied with masses from the Franciscan monastery in Pfreimd . The church was also poorly furnished with pictures and statues of saints.
After the turmoil of Calvinism and the Thirty Years War , the church was demolished and rebuilt in 1696. It was repaired before the parish church in Luhe and used for worship. In order to be able to accommodate the believers, two galleries were built one on top of the other . The year 1696 can still be read today over the west portal.
Church building
Today this is a hall church with a gable roof and a retracted choir closed on five sides . The space for the tower following the choir (choir apex tower) with an onion dome and a cross is unusual.
Interior design
In the church there is an altar trio from around 1711/12. The figures of Peter and Paul were probably originally attached to the main altar, today they are by the side altars. There are two floating angels at the high altar. The picture of the high altar shows St. Nicholas as an intercessor. In the lower edge of the picture, the legend of the killed and already cured child is shown, who was brought back to life by St. Nicholas. The side altars show St. Nepomuk and St. Wendelin .
Pastor Josef Schön had an exterior and interior renovation carried out from 2004 to 2008.
organ
As early as 1761 the Nikolauskirche on the Koppelberg received the old organ with four registers because of the organ renovation in St. Martin.
At the patronage of 2016, the consecration took place a new organ. The organist Hans Spindler gave the organ as a gift to the Nikolaus Church on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Spindler has been accompanying church services on the organ for 40 years.
Hermit hermitage
The hermitage on the Koppelberg was set up to look after the church there. The first hermit was the crippled Michael Kunzelmann (* 1697) from 1731 to 1739 ; he lived on alms. His successor was Paul Luber (* 1718 in Hirschau ; † December 12, 1787) from 1746–1787 . He bought the hermitage and had it rebuilt in 1784, he sang bass in the church choir and was rewarded with three guilders a year. He was followed by Elogius Mulzer (born August 12 in Pfreimd ) in 1788-1793 . He was a blacksmith by trade, and according to his superiors he didn't understand anything about hermitism, but in 1789 he built a house chapel on the south side of the hermitage. In 1793 he left Luhe. The last hermit was Arsenius Graf (born May 1, 1854 in Gibbach , † April 7, 1935). He was a watchmaker by trade, he continued his craft in Luhe, and he also collected alms. He was here between August 23, 1895 and September 26, 1899 and from 1923 until his death.
The hermitage attached to the church has not existed since 1936; the elevated tank for the Luhe water supply was built in its place; What has been preserved is a kind of house chapel, which used to be the storage room of the hermitage.
A way of the cross to the Koppelberg was built in 1734 under Pastor Knorr .
literature
- Josef Menath: Catholic parish church St. Martin Luhe. (= Schnell series, Art Guide, No. 1223). Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1988 (2nd, completely revised edition), p. 18.
- Karl Rothenberger: Market Luhe. Timeline. Oberpfälzer Waldverein, branch association Luhe, Luhe 1989, pp. 105–194.
- Otto Würschinger: Vohenstrauss in old views. Zaltbommel, Europ. Library 1979.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 34 ′ 56.6 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 18.3 ″ E