St. Nikolaus (Reichertshofen)

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St. Nikolaus Reichertshofen
The Crescent Madonna

The parish church of St. Nikolaus is the Catholic village church of the Sengenthaler district Reichertshofen , south of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in the diocese of Eichstätt .

Building history

Previous construction

Reichertshofen ("Ad domum Richardi") in the Upper Palatinate is one of three places of the same name in which Bishop Gundekar II of Eichstätt consecrated a church between 1057 and 1075. In a visitation protocol from 1480, Reichertshofen is named as a branch of Berngau . Between 1554 and 1625 the Upper Palatinate and thus Reichertshofen were Protestant. Two years after the Counter-Reformation it is said that the Reichertshofer church was "well built with a beautiful sacristy and a wonderfully beautiful altar".

Today's church

In 1759 the old Gothic church, which was built towards the end of the 14th century, was demolished. In the following year, the new nave with the dimensions 15 × 10.70 m was built. After the nave was in place, the builders ran out of money in the winter of 1760/61 and construction came to a standstill. The services were therefore celebrated in the windowless nave, which did not even have a roof. Construction was not continued until the spring of 1761. The construction of the west tower began in 1775. However, since the financial means were again scarce, the 35 meter high church tower was given a pyramid-shaped roof instead of an onion dome in 1791. The interior construction of the church began in 1763, during which time the magnificent high altar was also built.

In 1816 the altars and the pulpit were redesigned at the expense of the community. In 1821 an organ came into the church. There is a crescent Madonna at the altar of Mary . This was built around 1480 and was transferred to Reichertshofen in 1818 after the college church in Eichstätt was demolished .

In 1867/69 the Way of the Cross and a new side altar with the figures of saints Josef, Leonhard and Wendelin came into the church. In 1938 there were three bells in the tower, one from the 14th century, one from 1883 and the third from 1929.

The cemetery around the church was expanded in 1871 and again in 1902. The Lourdes grotto, built in 1909 by the foundation of Pastor L. Kerling, is embedded in the cemetery wall.

Parish

There is evidence that Reichertshofen was a branch of the Berngau parish as early as 1480; this remained so until the 19th century. In 1850 Reichertshofen was made an expositur and in 1854 a parish curate; on October 18, 1856, the parish church was consecrated. On December 19, 1867, King Ludwig II raised the curate to a parish . Through the formation of this parish, a connection between the places of the parish of Sengenthal was created for the first time. In 1926 the Dietlhof was parceled out to Sulzbürg and the Braunmühle to Döllwang , and two years later the Birkenmühle was also moved there . In 1938 the parish included the Reichertshofen parish with the Richthof, the Forst parish (Forst itself, Braunshof, Gollermühle, Kastenühle, Schlierfermühle, Stadlhof), the Sengenthal parish (Sengenthal itself, Guggesmühle, Ölkuchenmühle, Schmidmühle, Seitzermühle, Kanalschlause 31, canal lock 32, Railway Post 38, Railway Post 39, Greißelbach Station, Schlierferhaide, Steinbruch, Hubertusklause) and from the community of Stauf Buchberg , a total of 733 "souls" from 155 families in 151 houses, whereby the church village itself had 206 inhabitants, including three Protestants. Between 2003 and 2018, four priests were ordained from the parish and had their primaries in Reichertshofen and Sengenthal.

Churches and chapels of the parish

Today the Reichertshofen parish includes the following churches and chapels:

  • Parish Church of St. Nikolaus, Reichertshofen
  • Filial church St. Elisabeth , Sengenthal
  • St. Georg Chapel , Winnberg
  • Schlierfermühle Chapel
  • St. Sebastian Chapel, Forst; Consecration of the newly built chapel in 2010
  • Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Buchberg
  • Chapel, birch mill
  • Chapel of the Holy Family, Braunmühle
  • Mater Dolorosa Chapel, Sengenthal

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Heidingsfelder (arr.): The regests of the bishops of Eichstätt. Erlangen: Palm & Enke, 1938, No. 251 (p. 85)
  2. ^ Franz Xaver Buchner: The Diocese of Eichstätt , Volume II, Eichstätt 1938, p. 451
  3. ↑ Buchner, p. 451
  4. ↑ Buchner, p. 452 f.
  5. ↑ a b Buchner, p. 452
  6. ↑ Buchner, p. 453
  7. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Simon Heindl is ordained a deacon . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on April 22, 2018]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 40.7 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 14.9"  E