St. Odilia (Ochsenthal)

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The Roman Catholic branch church St. Odilia is located in Ochsenthal , a district of Hammelburg in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . The church is St. Dedicated to Odilia .

The church is one of the architectural monuments of Hammelburg and is registered under the number D-6-72-127-190 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

History, description and equipment

Ochsenthal was originally a branch of Wolfsmünster and was only changed to Windheim in 1976 .

The time when the church was built is not certain, but evidence suggests that it was built around 1300, with which the church was built around the time of the first known documentary mention of Ochsenthal. The nave was expanded in the 18th century .

The nave is flat-roofed and has rectangular windows. The choir in the basement of the massive eastern church tower has a barrel vault . It's just closed with a narrow ogival window to the east.

According to an engraving on one of the two bells in the church, these were made in 1475; it is likely that the other bell originated at the same time. The bells have a diameter of 52 cm and 35 cm. They probably sound in f sharp ´´ and c ´´´. The bells, which were originally operated by hand, were supplemented by an electric bell in the 1990s.

The left of the choir arch located Woman of the Apocalypse was built around 1600. The figure of the church patron Odilia on the other side of the choir arch is baroque.

In 1850, today, from was your Dorfer made organ builder Henry Menger organ of the church installed; it is Menger's only surviving organ. It was last renovated in 2004 by Hey from Urspringen .

The baroque painting of the Mother of God with Child Jesus carried by angels above the crescent moon was only brought into the house of God as part of the renovation of the church between 1970 and 1972. The circumstances and the time the painting was created are unknown.

The high altar of the church was removed in 1972 as part of the renovation. The altar panel from 1768 with a depiction of the Pietà is still preserved and attached to the right of the choir arch.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 828
  • Michael Rotschedl: Church leader of the parish community "Am Sturmiusberg" , Upper Franconian Postcard Publishing House Bouillon Bayreuth, 2014
  • Robert Kümmert : The bells of the Hammelburg district , Würzburg 1955

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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 49.8 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 44 ″  E