St. Simon and Judas (Unterelsbach)

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St. Simon and Judas Church in Unterelsbach

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Simon and Judas is located in Unterelsbach , a district of the Markt Oberelsbach in Lower Franconia . The church is dedicated to the apostles Simon Zelotes and Jude Thaddeus .

The church is one of the architectural monuments of Oberelsbach and is registered under the number D-6-73-149-47 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

The tower of the St. Simon and Jude Church was built in 1615/17; in 1810 the nave followed .

The high altar was made in the year after designs by Johann Philipp Preiß and comes from the Bildhausen monastery . The carvings are by Michael Rieß (a temporary employee of the leading Würzburg sculptor Johann Philipp Preuss at the time ) and Johann Ammon, the altar panel depicting the Assumption of Mary is probably by Johann Melchior Schöffer.

Both side altars were created around 1730 and were moved from St. Stephen's Church in Würzburg to the Unterelsbach Church.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments , Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 1045
  • Evi Warnke: Parish Church of St. Simon and Judas Thaddäus in Unterelsbach , church leader, undated

Web links

Commons : St. Simon and Jude  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 622–624.

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 32.2 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 8.8 ″  E