St. Nicholas (raft)

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The pilgrimage church of St. Nikolaus is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church on a hill on the northern edge of the Floß market in the northern Upper Palatinate . The current building was built in 1723 in place of an older church and expanded at the end of the 19th century. Today it is a listed building.

St. Nicholas (Raft), Roman Catholic pilgrimage church

history

As early as the Middle Ages, there was a chapel on Nikolausberg on the northern outskirts of Floß. This was removed in 1561 and the town hall on the market square was built from its stones. Today there is a hotel in this former town hall.

Since the middle of the 17th century, the tolerant Count Palatine Christian August ruled over the office of Raft . As a result, as a result of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, a denomination was not expelled from the Office Floß, as is the case in Germany. Christian August even allowed the formation of a Jewish community . All churches were converted into simultaneous churches in 1653 , which were used by Catholics and Protestants in parallel. The pilgrimage church on Nikolausberg was not affected by this as it was demolished at that time. That means the pilgrimage church of St. Nikolaus was always Catholic, never a simultaneous church, an exception among the old churches of the Office of Floß. In contrast to the surrounding area, there is still a large Catholic and a large Protestant community in Floß.

The Catholic part of the council of the market town Floß decided in 1719 to rebuild the church on the Nikolausberg. A collection was approved for this purpose by the sovereign, but it did not bring the desired result. Therefore, only a simple church building could be built in 1722 and not the one originally planned by master mason Andreas Nißler. In 1723 the Church of St. Nicholas was consecrated. Patron saint is St. Johannes Nepomuk . A papal bull from 1738 granted the Church a perfect indulgence for St. Nicholas' Day (December 6th) and for St. Johannes Nepomuk (May 16) an indulgence of seven years and seven quadrangles .

At the end of the 19th century, the Church of St. Nicholas was extended to the west because it had become too small.

Interior

In the Nikolauskirche there are figures of St. Nicholas, St. Johannes Nepomuk, the plague saints St. Sebastian and St. Rochus and the patron saint of the farmers, St. Wendelin . The high altar is a work from the 17th century. It is decorated with acanthus carvings. In the high altar is the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help . The pulpit dates from 1777. It was probably carved by Johann Linhardt and painted by the painter Franz Jachhörl. Since 1985 the church has had an organ made by the organ builder August Hartmann from Regensburg.

The church had two bells cast in 1736 and 1737. Next to the church was a hermitage, whose residents were obliged to ring bells until 1916. The bells had to be delivered in World War II . In 1949 the Church of St. Nicholas received a new ring with three bells:

  • 1st bell, approx. 4½ hundredweight, inscription: "K. Hamm poured me in 1948 ”-“ Fam. Mathias Lindner (Mother of God) "
  • 2nd bell, approx. 2 hundredweight, inscription: "K. Hamm Regensburg poured me in 1948 ”-“ St. Joseph, patron saint of the dying, pray for us "
  • 3rd bell, approx. 1¼ quintals, inscription: "K. Hamm Ratisbonensis "

Web links

Commons : Pilgrimage Church of St. Nikolaus (Raft)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: List of Monuments Floß (Upper Palatinate) (PDF; 142 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c d Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : 1000 Years of Floss , 1976, Verlag Marktgemeinde Floss, p. 318
  3. ^ Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : 1000 Years of Floss , 1976, Verlag Marktgemeinde Floss, p. 329
  4. ↑ a b http://www.pfarrei-floss.de/index.php/kirchen-gebaeude/st-nikolaus

Coordinates: 49 ° 43 ′ 43.2 ″  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 40.6 ″  E