St. Nicholas (Pittersberg)
The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus is located in the Pittersberg district of the Ebermannsdorf community in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach . The church is registered under the sign D-3-71-118-9 in the list of monuments of the Free State of Bavaria and is now part of the parish of Theuern in the Amberg-Ensdorf deanery .
Church patron is St. Nicholas of Myra .
history
A first chapel can be found in Pittersberg from 1230. In its place, the nave of today's church was built from 1860. In 1862 the organ made by Friedrich Specht was installed . The 43 meter high church tower was built in 1887.
In 1981 the church was renovated inside and in 1987 the outside. Another interior renovation took place from 1996 to 1998, with a new people's altar and new church chairs being installed. The roof structure was also repaired and re-covered.
architecture
The building is a single-nave hall church with a bell tower set over a square floor plan. The tower is covered with a pointed helmet. Four bi-directional windows open in the bell chamber .
Furnishing
The church is equipped with three architecturally elaborate altars in high baroque forms with columns made of stucco marble , cranked cornices and with lavish gilding of the capitals and the decoration. The altarpiece of the high altar shows Saints Dionysius and Nicholas, the patron saint of the church. They are flanked by statues of the apostles Peter and Paul .
The frescoes in the choir: Adoration of the Lamb by angels, in the nave: Nikolaus, Georg u. a. Holy worshiping Mary, rosary donation, symbols of the 4 main virtues are painted by the neo-baroque church painter Josef Wittmann in 1912.
The colored church windows of the choir from 1912 are foundations of the citizens of Pittersberg. They show Saint Nicholas of Myra, Isidore of Seville , St. Georg , Franz von Xaver , Elisabeth of Thuringia and St. Notburga .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '8.9 " N , 12 ° 1' 47.7" E