St. Peter and Paul (Busbach)
St. Peter and Paul is a church named after the apostles Peter and Paul in Busbach , a district of the Eckersdorf community in the Bayreuth district in Upper Franconia ( Bavaria ).
In his eight-volume history of the Diocese of Bamberg , the priest and historian Johann Looshorn claims that, by order of Charlemagne in Busbach, a contribution was made to the construction of a chapel, in the place of which the current church is to stand. In fact, Charlemagne ordered in 793 that the Wenden u. a. convert to Christianity by building churches. The Würzburg bishops built 14 such churches in the period that followed. The fact that there was such a church in Amlingstadt is largely certain, but no evidence can be provided for Busbach. It is more likely that Busbach was a branch of Trumsdorf and that in turn a branch of the parish Hollfeld .
The first documentary mention of a church in Busbach in the Salbuch of Bamberg Abbey from 1374 mentions David Schopper, who as a people priest was granted the right to hunt rabbits, chickens and birds in the area of the Busbach parish. In the land register of 1398 it is noted that "Peter and Fricz von Pusbach" was given the parish including the church set as a fief. This also included the chapel in Tröbersdorf , today's St. Laurentius Church .
What is left of the original church is unclear. Commonly called the oldest part of today's church is the choir tower, which was built in the second half of the 15th century in the late Gothic style. The baptismal font, the altar wings and figures also date from this period. After the Reformation was introduced in 1528, a pulpit was built in 1562, which is structurally similar to the pulpit of the Marienkirche in Gesees . This pulpit has been above the altar since 1791. The altarpiece had to be rebuilt for this.
In 1716 the church was renovated and raised under the Bayreuth margrave Georg Wilhelm . Master builder Christian Creuzer built the nave from 1734 to 1737. The grave slabs of Elias Räntz on the outside of the church, which were also made during this period, are worth seeing in terms of art history .
The church was originally surrounded by a cemetery, which had to be closed in 1936 for reasons of space. The new cemetery was built about a hundred meters northwest on the Busbacher Berg.
On April 1, 2009, the formerly independent parish of St. Peter and Paul was incorporated into the parish of St. Agidius (Eckersdorf) .
literature
- August Gebeßler : City and district of Bayreuth (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 6 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 451450914 , p. 99-100 .
- Stephan Hartnagel: The story of Neustädtlein am Forst and Busbach . Mistelgau 2001.
- Peter Poscharsky: The churches of Franconian Switzerland. 4th improved edition. Verlag Palm and Enke, Erlangen 2001, ISBN 3-7896-0099-7 , pp. 135-138.
- Christoph Reichl, Friedrich Schmidt: Evang.-Luth. Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul Busbach: Short report on the solemn conclusion of the overall renovation 1995-96 . Landbauamt Bayreuth, Bayreuth 1996.
- Christian Schimpf: If you know Busbach, you know the world . 2nd Edition. Berlin 2015, p. 130-144 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 36 ″ N , 11 ° 24 ′ 9 ″ E