St. Peter and Paul (Wegfurt)
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul is the village church of Wegfurt , a district of Bischofsheim in the Rhön . It belongs to the architectural monuments of Bischofsheim and is registered under the number D-6-73-117-144 in the Bavarian list of monuments .
history
The foundation walls of the church are medieval. A tympanum fragment to the right of the side portal indicates a previous church from the early 11th century. From 1601 , Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn had the current church built on the foundation walls by Master Caspar from Nordheim . The church was completed in 1607 and was consecrated on October 12, 1613. The high altar came into the church around 1700, the right side altar and the pulpit in 1750. The church received the left rococo side altar from the monastery church in Bildhausen .
After the church was described as "ruinous" in 1796, the eastern wall and about half of the southern wall of the church tower collapsed on April 23, 1807 . The bells got stuck. In the same year, the master bricklayer Michael Schauer from Saal an der Saale rebuilt the church tower and installed a retaining wall on the east side.
In 1914 the altars, the pulpit and the stations were restored and a new oak staircase to the gallery was built. With the outbreak of the First World War, the work was stopped.
In 1934 the ceiling and walls of the nave were whitewashed. A lightning strike in 1935 did not cause much damage. The church was badly damaged on April 7, 1945 during the invasion of the Americans. The windows on the south side were destroyed, the ceiling of the nave damaged by shrapnel. The damage was repaired with many volunteers. As a result of the bombardment, the top of the right side altar fell down and broke on the night of July 22nd to 23rd, 1945. It had to be put back together again in painstaking detail.
In 1948, the choir received a mortar ceiling instead of a wooden ceiling. Between 1960 and 1967 the church was renovated inside and out. In this one in the northern wall of the choir Gothic tabernacle and the grave of the priest Eucharius Mühlfeld from the center aisle of the nave Mellrichstadt exposed (1678-1679 pastor of Wegfurt). But it was attacked by stone corrosion and was sealed with cement. Valuable frescoes from the 17th century on the south wall have also been restored .
In the 1980s, a new, significantly larger sacristy was added in place of the sacristy from 1908.
An exterior renovation of the church took place in 2017. Interior renovation began in 2019.
description
The church tower stands as a choir tower in the east. It is a Julius Echter tower with ogival sound windows . The flat-roofed choir is in the basement . The nave, separated by a round choir arch , also has a flat roof. The nave has a pointed arched window with tracery in the north wall and four windows in the south wall. Of the latter, the three front windows are also ogival, the rear rectangular. There are two round windows in the western rear wall.
Inscriptions over the portals
Sandstone tablets with inscriptions from the reign of Julius Echter are placed above the main portal and the south portal. They are:
Bischof Julius hat regirt
vierzig Jar und die Pfarr dotiert
Baut die Kirch und Pfarrhaus neu!
Nachfolget mer aus Vaters Treu
Furt ein die alt Religion
die erkant frei sein Unterton.
Das alles nun zum Glück und Segen
der treue Furst thuet Gott ergeben!
1614
Als Bischoff Julius regiert
wardt diese Kirch erweitert und renoviert
dem allmächtigen Gott zu Ehren
auff das sich mancher Sunder darin
desto eher möchte bekehren!
1603
Furnishing
The high altar shows a crucifix in the middle and the church patrons Peter and Paul on the sides . A picture of St. Joseph can be seen on the left side altar. St. Sebastian is depicted on the right side altar , on the side St. Rochus and St. Wendelinus . At the pulpit there are figures of the four evangelists . On the baptismal font from 1603 with rosette decoration and a grimace is a sculpture that shows the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan .
The early baroque organ was rebuilt in 1729. According to an inscription in the wind chest , the organ was bought in 1640 by the Geroda church near Bad Brückenau . It received a rococo brochure in 1720 and has been restored several times. In 1965 it was expanded to two manuals by Hey Orgelbau in Urspringen .
Peal
Some of the bells are very old and valuable. They form the “Parsifal” motif. In detail:
|
No. |
Surname |
Diameter (mm) |
Mass (kg, approx.) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
Casting year |
| 1 | - | - | - | d '' | Omnia ad maiorem Dei gloriam | 1744 |
| 2 | - | - | - | h ' | I call the living, I mourn the dead | 1955 |
| 3 | - | - | - | a ' | Math. Mark. Luk. John 1458 | 1458 |
| 4th | - | - | - | fis ' | Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us | 1952 |
literature
- Max Mölter: History of the parish Wegfurt.
Web links
- Wegfurt parish on the website of the parish community "Am Kreuzberg, Bischofsheim / Rhön"
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '47.4 " N , 10 ° 5' 15.1" E