St. Sebastian (Beratzhausen)

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St. Sebastian cemetery chapel in Beratzhausen

The cemetery chapel and branch church of St. Sebastian was built on the Hennenberg in the middle of the 15th century.

history

In the middle of the 15th century the chapel on the Hennenberg (formerly: Pronberg) was called against plague and disease. The St. Sebastian church is first mentioned in writing in 1496. In 1496, Michl Proner prescribed a valid from his house and garden to the St. Sebastian Church . Zech provosts time were Hans Kleuflen and Lorenz Lanckhamer .

The Beratzhausen cemetery was originally located near the local parish church . As it was feared that this cemetery would pose a health risk for the market residents (in 1574 "80 people [through epidemics] were ready to go"), a cemetery was established around 1590 outside the market by the Sebastian Chapel. At that time the citizens were supposedly “willing to set up a funeral at the Capellen ufm berf, our gn. Fuh 100 fl only approved. ”But after they“ found that the soil of the place was rocky and unsuitable for this, they used a field in fürschlag ”as a cemetery in front of the upper gate. At that time there were fatalities of 15 seniores and 50 juniores annually . But since this burial place was not so close to the houses either, the cemetery at the Sebastian Chapel should be put into operation. However, 1788 people were still buried in the cemetery near the parish church, whereby a decree from Neuburg tried to prohibit this ("since the vapors from the dead bodies infect the air and often lead to dangerous diseases") and the closure of the " Lower cemetery ”can be enforced with coercive means if necessary. The mayor, council and citizens resisted because the areas on the Kapellenberg were too small, the distance too far and the paths in snow and ice not accessible. So the old cemetery was reopened in 1789. However, in the course of the Montgelasse reforms, the burials at the parish church were finally stopped in 1803 and the cemetery was demolished in 1810 by order of the Hemau district court .

In 1991, a memorial for those who fell in the 1939–1945 war was built in the cemetery. It is made of white shell limestone and equipped with a modern crucifix. The names of the war dead are engraved on the panels to the right and left.

Church building

The church is an eaves-standing hall with a retracted choir . The latter has a cross and cap vault . The church has a roof turret covered with sheet metal with a pointed roof . It was structurally changed in 1713.

In 1940 the rear part of this chapel was converted into a morgue and in 1965, after the construction of the new cemetery and morgue on Parsberger Strasse, it was returned to its former state. From 1945 until the construction of the Protestant church, the chapel served the Protestant community of Beratzhausen as a place of worship.

Interior

In the left side altar is a high relief epitaph with which the children of Baron von Herstenczky are remembered. The right side altar was probably dedicated to the Beratzhausen keeper and chief hunter Tobias Freiherr Herstenzkhy (1600) himself. It shows a representation of purgatory with the artist's inscription Conrad Jos von stuottgart .

This church is also the destination of a pilgrimage . In 2014, as part of the introduction of a "TriAnnum", a series of church services, devotions, pilgrimages, lectures, concerts and other events over the three years, a pilgrimage from the parish church to the St. Reintroduced January.

literature

  • Robert Dollinger: Eleven hundred years of Beratzhausen in the former empire-free rule of Ernfels. Josef Habbel, Regensburg 1966, pp. 76-77.
  • Reinhard Seidl: Maria-Hilf is 275 years old. The anniversary is celebrated with a festive service. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . July 20, 2017 ( Mittelbayerische.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beratzhausen - 1939–1945 , accessed on November 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ Beratzhausen in old views , accessed on November 8, 2019.
  3. ↑ Remembrance and Remembrance in Gemeinde creativ - Magazine for committed Christians , accessed on November 8, 2019.
  4. ↑ Celebration of the patronage of our Sebastianikirche , pastoral community Beratzhausen-Pfraundorf , accessed on November 8, 2019.

Coordinates: 49 ° 5 ′ 34.2 "  N , 11 ° 48 ′ 28.3"  E