St. Nicholas (Pleinfeld)
The St. Nicholas Church is a Roman Catholic church in Pleinfeld , a market town in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . As the parish church of the Pleinfeld parish, it is part of the Weissenburg Parish Association in the Eichstätt diocese . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-161-17 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The underground components of the church and its predecessor are also designated as a ground monument (number: D-5-6831-0064). Church patronage is St. Nicholas of Myra .
location
The church is located in the historic town center of Pleinfeld north of the market square and northeast of the Spalter Tor not far from the Pleinfeld city wall . The old bailiwick castle is adjacent . The structure stands at a height of 382 meters above sea level . The postal address is Kirchenplatz 6. The Nikolauskirche and the Evangelical Petruskirche are the only churches in Pleinfeld.
history
The first church was consecrated at the time of Gundekar II . The church was originally a single-nave Romanesque hall church with the main altar in the east . Another consecration took place between 1128 and 1136 under Bishop Otto von Eichstätt . In 1702, after the Thirty Years' War , the church was extended 24 feet to the west. The damage caused by a lightning strike was repaired in 1736. In 1768 three side chapels were added to the right and left in the Baroque style .
Building description
In 1770 the church was rebuilt by the court architect Domenico Maria Salle as a three-aisled basilica with a roof tower in the west. During the renovation of the dilapidated church tower in 1931, it was raised by 2 meters and a helmet with a lantern bearing a gilded cross was put on. When this building became too small, Friedrich Ferdinand Haindl converted it into a building complex in 1934 . A new nave , three steps lower, was built as an extension , facing north with a north-facing choir behind a round arched choir arch with a flat end. The chancel of the original nave, which now forms a transept , now serves as the Marienkapelle. Epitaphs from the Baroque period are embedded in its side walls , for example one with the family coat of arms of Karl Heinrich von Hornstein .
Bells
The bells were cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in 1953.
| Chime | Mass (kg) |
|---|---|
| d ′ | 1877 |
| e ′ | 1258 |
| G' | 720 |
| a ′ | 496 |
| H' | 453 |
inventory
There are several valuable baroque and rococo altars in the church . The high altar was completed in 1720. Four winding columns support the high extension . The altarpiece represents St. Nicholas. The tabernacle from 1908 is flanked by four columns. The sacrificial altar and the ambo were erected above the five choir steps in 1988 , both made of Pappenheim marble by Hans Krenz. The two side altars, created around 1690, came from the Frauenkirche von Heideck so that the medieval wall paintings in the choir arch could be exposed. The right side altar shows St. Anthony of Padua with baby Jesus. The left side altar is dedicated to St. Vitus . The altarpiece was created by Josef Ferdinand Freyhardt from Dinkelsbühl in 1684 . The side altars from the old church are now in the tower vault and at the west entrance. The St. Mary's altar in the St. Mary's Chapel dates from the Rococo period. Two columns frame the statue of the Madonna with baby Jesus and scepter . The identical Sacred Heart Altar opposite on the west wall received a new statue. The putto at the side entrance rests on an hourglass. The baptismal font from 1692 has a bowl with a punched relief from 1525. The pulpit and the sound cover above, on the underside of which the dove of the Holy Spirit floats and on top of which there is a statue of St. Paul , was created around 1750, the holy water font around 1700. A crucifix with the figure of Magdalena also dates from around 1700 .
The organ was created by Joseph Anton Bohl in 1863 and has ten stops . In 1963 a new organ with 28 registers was purchased from the Lübecker Orgelbau company and in 1978 the Rückpositiv was reduced.
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
- Gottfried Mertens: Market Pleinfeld . Pleinfeld, 1984
Web links
- Location of the church in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
- Website of the parish
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c St. Nikolaus Catholic Parish Church , Pleinfeld Monument List , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , accessed on September 16, 2016 (PDF)
- ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
- ↑ Parish Church St. Nikolaus / Pleinfeld ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Markt Pleinfeld, accessed on September 16, 2016
- ↑ St. Nikolaus, Pleinfeld , www.schwabenmedia.de, accessed on September 16, 2016
- ↑ Bells in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district
- ↑ Information about the Catholic parish church St. Nikolaus in Pleinfeld , accessed on September 16, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 23.1 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 10.5 ″ E