St. Oswald (Stralsbach)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Oswald is located in Stralsbach , a district of in Lower Franconia nearby town Burkardroth and the hl. Consecrated to Oswald .
The church is one of the architectural monuments of Burkardroth and is registered under the number D-6-72-117-90 in the Bavarian monument list .
history
It is not certain when the previous building of today's St. Oswald Church was built. A people priest who was vouched for in Stralsbach in 1285 suggests the existence of a church in the village. Ceramic remnants from the renovation work on today's St. Oswald Church in 1974 allow the conclusion that the first Strallbacher church was built between 1150 and 1120.
The inscription "im 1488 iar" on the cemetery wall could indicate a partial reconstruction of the church or the new building of the rectory. Oral tradition contains references to the demolition of a church in 1594 and the construction of a new church in 1618 by the Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . According to an inscription on the cemetery wall, the cemetery was expanded in 1654.
A tower collapse on this church building in 1793, which also damaged the neighboring agricultural buildings of the parsonage, but left the statue of Mary inside the tower intact, the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Georg Karl von Fechenbach is supposed to build the St. Oswald Church in 1801 have moved. According to the State Archives, the relevant documents were destroyed during the Second World War . The southern side altar of the newly built church was built around 1762 and housed a statue of the Virgin Mary with the secondary figures of St. Vitus and St. Oswald (all in Rococo style). Since the statue of the Virgin Mary was the central figure of the altar, dedicated to St. Oswald was only flanked, the church of St. To have been consecrated to Mary .
In addition, the church was decorated with a baptismal font and confessionals from 1801, a Last Supper painting by Johann Martin from 1792, and one by Wil around 1770. Painted stone depiction of the Nativity, a tragic Madonna (around 1700) and sculptures of St. Sebastian , Anton and Valentin equipped.
The high altar was donated in 1906. Presumably the church was repainted and the floor was renewed in the same year.
The church had four bells in the 1940s, three of which had to be delivered. The remaining bell did not match the new chimes with the tones f sharp ', g sharp', a sharp 'and c sharp' 'that were procured in 1950. It was made available to the Benedictine Abbey of Münsterschwarzach.
In 1974, the St. Oswald Church was extended by an extension to the west, which was inaugurated on September 1, 1974 by Auxiliary Bishop Alfons Kempf . In the extension there are some sculptures from the time before the expansion. In addition, the church tower, the walls and some furnishings have been preserved from the previous structure. A construction analysis during the renovation work revealed eight layers of the floor.
literature
(in chronological order)
- Josef Wabra: Stralsbach. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rhön / Saale, Bad Kissingen 1974, DNB 790694441 , pp. 20-30.
- Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , p. 1007.
- Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , pp. 81-82.
Web links
- Church "St. Oswald" in Stralsbach . In: Website of the municipality of Burkardroth
- Alfred Saam: The bells of the parish church St. Oswald in Stralsbach (PDF)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 48.8 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 31.6 ″ E