St. Sola (Solnhofen)
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St. Sola is a Catholic church in Solnhofen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district . The patron saint of the church is the holy Sola , the namesake of Solnhofen, who evangelized in this area and was buried in the Sola basilica on the opposite bank of the Altmühl, which was abandoned in 1783 . The choir tower is under the monument number D-5-77-168-6 as a monument to the Bavarian monument list entered.
history
Solnhofen and the Sola basilica, like the whole of the Principality of Ansbach , had become Protestant in the 16th century. Until the 19th century there was no Catholic church in the place.
The Expositus Zottmann from Pappenheim asked on February 20, 1892 the Bishop of Eichstaett about building a chapel for 1100. death of Sola. After the approval of the bishop and the royal district office of Weißenburg , a piece of land was acquired on January 29, 1902. Only after enough money had been collected, construction began in spring 1903, based on a design by Friedrich Niedermayer. The foundation stone was laid on August 9, 1903, and the consecration took place on October 29, 1905.
During the First World War in 1917 two of the three bells were melted down . The third bell followed in World War II . In 1959 the church acquired three new bells from the H. Hamm company in Kaiserslautern .
The church has had an electricity connection since the 1930s . In 1951 a renovation took place in which, among other things, some paintings were painted over white. On September 1, 1963, St. Sola was made a curate . Further renovations took place between 1970 and 1972 and 1983. The exterior renovation took place between 1989 and 1991. During the renovation from 1992 to 1993, the painted over wall paintings could be restored.
Building
The neo-Gothic building with Romanesque forms is a dry stone - church hall with gable roof . The two altars were made by the sculptor Schreiner from Regensburg . In the choir wall there is a painting on which St. Sola can be seen with the church in the background. The glass windows come from the Royal Bavarian Court glass painting Zettler in Munich. A Sola reliquary is kept in the choir room on the left . The relic is a gift from Fulda Bishop Christoph Florentius Kött to the Eichstätter Bishop during his visit to Fulda in 1867. Late Gothic sculptures come from St. Lambertus in Treuchtlingen .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Catholic parish church St. Sola in the Solnhofen monument list of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF)
literature
- 100 years of the Catholic Church of St. Sola Solnhofen 1905–2005 . Festschrift, Solnhofen / Weißenburg 2005
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 35.4 " N , 10 ° 59 ′ 40.3" E