St. Salvator on the harbor deck
The old church of St. Salvator on the port deck was in the Pfaffenbühl corridor south of Störnstein . Here there are still large boulders on which a stone, similar to a large cover (similar to a harbor ) lies.
Founding saga
According to a legend, this was where evil wanted to rise from hell to oppress the still young Christianity. The devil climbed out of the harbor with a large granite stone to smash the Katharinenkirche near Schloss Störnstein . When he drew back to the throw, it rang in Störnstein to change and the stone fell exhausted from his claws. With a curse, the devil disappeared back into the stone pot and the large stone has been lying over it as a lid ever since. The corridor is therefore also popularly known as the Devil's Hafendeck . Perhaps in order to counterbalance the legendary goings-on of the devil, a church was founded here with the patronage of the World Redeemer .
history
According to the parish archives of Altenstadt an der Waldnaab , this chapel was built by the Lords of Pflug on Störnstein's ground and consecrated by an auxiliary bishop of Regensburg . The patronage was set for the second Sunday after Easter , “ during which consecration the fields and Wießmath near the church, a hut willow since ancient times, belonged to Störnstein, made and remained peculiar as a foundation for the maintenance of chapels and worship are ". In 1508 the chapel is mentioned in the diocesan registers of the diocese of Regensburg .
The border immediately in front of the church separated the old lords of Neustadt from the Palatinate Flossenbürg . The result was that a dispute broke out over membership of the Church. At the parish fair with a large fair, the income from the demurrage went to the Störnstein rulership, who also took care of the parish fair. As early as 1493, hostilities broke out over the disputed membership of the church. In 1541 the keeper of Flossenbürg reported that the Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg, Ottheinrich , had ordered him to demolish the dilapidated chapel; because of the alleged disputed ownership, this order was not carried out. For their part, the Störnsteiners did not remain idle, in 1545 they dismantled the bells and used them for a striking clock in the Hammer Harlesberg . They also smashed windows and stoves in the house next to the church, which was a hermitage , because allegedly " land devils " (= tramps ) lived here. In the next few years, the Störnsteiners also carried the stones away to Neustadt for the construction of a new church tower after the altars, the baptismal font, windows and the two doors had been removed. These were used to expand churches in Neustadt, most of the church was demolished in 1581. In the map by Christoph Vogel of the Flossenbürg office from 1600, a church ruin is consequently drawn in here.
At the beginning of the Counter Reformation , the church was rebuilt in 1629. The Catholics of Störnstein and Neustadt did not want to put up with the end of the pilgrimage to the Salvatorkirche, as early as 1631 the chaplain of Neustadt received 30 Kreuzers a year for holding a mass in St. Salvator. The Salvator picture, which later hangs in the Katharinenkapelle and today in the church of St. Salvator in Störnstein, also dates from this time . A pilgrimage to this church is also reported from 1672. On August 17, 1703 a conflict is reported between the Catholic parish administrator Johann Adam Winkler from Püchersreuth and the Protestant pastor Eduard Fischer von Wilchenreuth on the one hand and Pastor Schäfer zu Altenstadt on the other. The latter had allowed himself to be guilty of unauthorized interference with the property rights of the church and wanted to curtail its rights ( the Simultaneum was introduced in 1652 in the Duchy of Pfalz-Sulzbach and the parish grounds were distributed, so a Catholic and a Protestant pastor could pull together.) . The episcopal ordinariate in Regensburg ended the dispute in a Solomonic manner, the Püchersreuther pastor was recalled and both the (new) Püchersreuther and the Altenstadt pastor were allowed to use the chapel; The key to the chapel was to be kept with the church caretaker von Störnstein, after a pastor had previously had the door to the chapel knocked down because the other had locked it. Then there was silence. In 1735 the chapel received a flag. In 1780 a procession from Windischeschenbach is reported. Request processions to St. Salvator are also documented later, for example from Neustadt in 1824 and from Püchersreuth on Ascension Day. At that time, however, the church was already referred to as the “most expendable thing”; the pastor of Altenstadt stopped holding church services here and in 1826 the petition processions ran from Neustadt to Altenstadt, the Püchersreuther went to Störnstein. With a rescript of the royal government in the Ober-Mainkreis dated August 29, 1818, the demolition of the church and the unification of the church's property (including the right to tithes in some fields) with the St. Catherine Church in Starkstein was decided.
When the Katharinen Church in Störnstein was expanded around 1920, the Salvator picture was also hung from the harbor deck in Störnstein. The old fair at the church was moved by the government to Floß and is still held there on White Sunday . The stones were used for the new construction of the Salvatorkirche in Störnstein.
literature
- Leonhard Bär: Dispute about the Church of St. Salvator near Störnstein. Home pages for the upper Nordgau , 1935/36, 13./14. Volume, pp. 35–40.
- Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg, Volume IX, District Office Neustadt an der Waldnaab. 1907 (reprinted by R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1981).
- Rüdiger Streussnig: Sankt Salvator zu Störnstein. In 50 years of St. Salvator Störnstein: 1934–1984; Festschrift and chronicle for the festival week from May 28 to June 3, 1984. Störnstein 1984, pp. 27–30.
- Adolf Wolfgang Schuster . Saint Salvator on the harbor deck. In Adolf Wolfgang Schuster, 850 years old Störnstein . Störnstein Municipality, Störnstein 1991, pp. 684–689.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Wolfgang Schuster, 1991, p. 339.
Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '48.4 " N , 12 ° 20' 54.4" E