St. Peter and Paul (Arnshausen)

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St.-Peter-and-Paul, Arnshausen
, St. Peter and Paul Church
place Arnshausen
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Diocese of Würzburg
Patronage Peter and Paul
Construction year 1613; with a new building from 1977
Construction type Hall church
function Parish church

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul is located in Arnshausen , a district of the Bad Kissingen spa town in Lower Franconia . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-156 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

First church in Arnshausen

Archaeological investigations as part of the installation of a new oil heater in 1964 revealed twelve layers of earth lying one on top of the other. In the lowest and therefore oldest layer ceramic pieces were found that come from a ceramic floor laid in 1240. This probably replaced a previously laid wooden floor. The date of origin of the ceramic finds, estimated to be between 1220 and 1250, coincides with the first known documentary mention of Arnshausen in 1242.

This church, attested to in the middle of the 13th century, also served as a place of refuge in times of war in a time when the Counts of Henneberg and the Würzburg bishops tried to delimit their claims to power. These circumstances made themselves felt in the loopholes-like arrangement of the church windows; the churchyard was surrounded by a curtain wall, which also had loopholes.

Today's church building

Emergence

After the parish of Arnshausen, to which Reiterswiesen had also belonged, was annexed to the parish of Bad Kissingen in 1410 due to dwindling income, the church building began to fall apart. For this reason, the church was demolished under Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn ; The new building, which still exists today, was built at its location between 1609 and 1617. The church tower from the 14th century was redesigned to a typical tower of the real time . The nave and the polygonal choir , for example, were built in 1613.

In front of the church there is an Immaculata figure and a wayside shrine. Both belong to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and, like the church, are registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-114-156 . The Immaculata figure is made of sandstone and, according to the foundation's inscription on the base, was created in 1803. The sandstone shrine, which, according to the inscription at the top of the round support, was built in 1629, was originally located at the south-eastern exit of Arnshausen and was used as part of the church renovation Transferred to the Church in 1976. The shrine bears a with a round arch completed, 74 cm high top panel with a relief representation of Jesus on the cross and the attendant figures. On the narrow sides are St. John and Simon Peter .

In the 1920s to 1930s, the church building was given its present appearance through renovation.

  • Immaculata

  • Wayside shrine

Extension from 1977

At the beginning of the 1970s, due to the expected increase in the number of residents due to the impending incorporation of Arnshausen into Bad Kissingen, the need for an expansion of the church building was foreseeable. The Munich architect Erich Martin, whose mother came from Arnshausen, developed five possible concepts: Extension of the church building to the east (this concept would have been the cheapest, but would have transformed the historical structure into a torso and the believers by the necessary relocation of the altar in two Camp divided), an extension on both sides (this would have impaired the size of the village green and the roof and ceiling of the church in its conception to a great extent), a polygonal longitudinal concept (included the attempt to minimize impairment of the village green, It would have been just as laborious to implement as an extension on both sides), a separate extension (this variant was favored by the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Skull ) and a merger of the two church rooms.

Finally, with the approval of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , the decision was made in favor of merging the two church rooms, on the one hand to preserve the existing structure and on the other hand to avoid the expense of maintaining two church buildings. While white limestone was used as the load-bearing material, the decision was made in favor of a warm room impression and the acoustics for wood as the room material. The organ gallery was suspended from two steel rods on the ceiling beams. Construction began on August 2, 1976; the consecration of the church in its expanded form took place on October 2, 1977 by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Alfons Kempf .

architecture

Coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn

The original church building from 1613 is a hall building with a retracted, polygonal closing choir and church tower on the eastern north side of the nave . Inside the tower from the original building there is a pointed arched opening facing south. This suggests that, on the one hand, the tower is a former choir tower and, on the other hand, the associated nave was positioned transversely to the current nave.

Characteristic of the architecture under the building owner, Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , are the post-Gothic Julius Echter Tower with the octagonal helmet on a square floor plan, the post-Gothic tracery forms of the windows and the combination of Gothic-based forms with Renaissance elements on the portals .

The coat of arms of Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn is attached to the east portal on the south side.

Furnishing

The folk style of the original church building from 1613 comes from the first half of the 18th century. The high altar shows a representation of the Holy Family . The original side figures of the altar of St. Peter and Paul are now in the new church building from 1977. Due to the architecture of the church, it only contains a side altar on its south side, the one with cheeks and heavy acanthus carvings . Possible dates of the altars are probably around 1700 or around 1720. The pulpit was probably built around 1720.

In a niche in the south wall of the nave stood a figure of the Archangel Michael from the 18th century; it is now in the new church building. A late Gothic carved figure of St. John, also originally in the original church building from 1613 . Sebastian is now in the new church building.

In 1885 the church received a communion bench made by sculptor Valentin Weidner . The two variants offered by Weidner can be traced from the plan prepared by Weidner and handed down in the Arnshausen parish archive, “To the new Communion Bank 1885”. After the Second World War , however, the communion bench was removed and has been lost ever since.

The nave ceiling, which was redesigned in 1992, has an economical stucco decoration and a painting of the Assumption of Mary by Otto Hämmerle.

literature

  • St. Peter + Paul Bad Kissingen Arnshausen, church consecration October 2, 1977.
  • Contributions to Local History No. 1, September 1985.
  • Contributions to Local History No. 2, December 1985.
  • Contributions to Local History No. 5, December 1986.
  • Werner Eberth : Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptor of historicism in Franconia . Additions to "Kissinger Heft" Volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996, p. 24
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 118-120 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 40

Web links

Commons : St. Peter and Paul (Arnshausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Contributions to local history No. 5, December 1986, p. 3
  2. ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 120 .
  3. ^ Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 15
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 118 .
  5. ^ A b Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 40
  6. ↑ Werner Eberth : Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptor of historicism in Franconia . Additions to "Kissinger Heft" Volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996, p. 24

Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 10.5 ″  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 16.2 ″  E