St. Sigismund (Pleystein)
The parish church of St. Sigismund is the Roman Catholic parish church of Pleystein in the northern Upper Palatinate in the diocese of Regensburg . It was built after a fire in the old parish church in 1901 and is now a listed building.
history
In 1396 the first parish church in the village was built. A building from the second half of the 18th century was completely destroyed in the fire in Pleystein in 1901. Today's neo-Gothic building was built according to the plans of the architects Heinrich Hauberrisser and Joseph Koch and was consecrated in the church in 1905.
Interior
The carved winged altar is located in the choir . It shows the Lord's Supper on the left, the Pentecostal image on the right and scenes from the life of the church patron St. Sigismund are depicted on the two wings . On the right you can see how he founds a monastery and has it built, on the left how he teaches noble young people. At the top of the altar is God the Father with a globe. Above the wings is a statue of St. Sigismund in the middle, St. Florian on his right and St. George the knight on his left.
The windows behind the winged altar show the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to Mary on the left and the birth of Jesus and the Adoration of the Shepherds on the right. In the window to the right of the high altar is the dove with the olive branch, which Noah sent out after the flood. In the niches at the window to the left of the altar, the princes of the apostles Peter and Paul can be seen.
On the right side in the nave is the Sacred Heart Altar, on which is shown how Jesus invites all troublesome and burdened people. In addition to this depiction, figures of St. Joseph and St. Aloisius can be seen, on top of the side altar a crucifixion group with Mary and John. On the left side is the Marien Altar in a small side chapel. There the adolescent Madonna is depicted with the baby Jesus who gives a rosary to St. Dominic. The Visitation of the Virgin Mary and the Coronation of Mary are depicted on the two wings and at the top there are statues of St. Barbara and St. Catherine to the side and Mary with the baby Jesus in the middle.
In 1906 the church received an organ as Opus 920 from Steinmeyer with 26 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
Bells
In 1949 the renowned Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast two bronze bells for the church. They are tuned to d - g and have a diameter of 1400 and 1049 mm.
literature
- Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (Ed.), Frank Ebel (Red.): The church builder Heinrich Hauberrisser. Architecture between historicism and modernity (= series of publications by the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association. Volume 4.). Morsbach, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-937527-73-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: List of Monuments Pleystein (PDF; 142 kB)
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the bell foundry dynatie Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 546 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 503. , Urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 39.4 " N , 12 ° 24 ′ 27.9" E