St. Thomas (Oberlind)
The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Thomas in the Oberlind district of the Upper Palatinate town of Vohenstrauß is located at Dorfstrasse 7. It is located within a cemetery wall made of rubble stones, which dates back to the 17th or 18th century.
history
The church was founded before 1350 by the lords of Paulsdorf , who had settled in Tännesberg . In 1394 Karl Paulsdorff von Tännesberg and his wife Benigna sold their patronage rights to Tännesberg including the patronage rights over Lind to Ruprecht III. from the Palatinate . Oberlind was made Lutheran in 1556 by Count Palatine Ottheinrich . Under his successor, Count Palatine Friedrich III. the area became Calvinist . In the course of the iconoclasm that was triggered , the portraits were removed from the church and the baptismal font (found again today) was brought to the cemetery. His successor, Count Palatine Ludwig VI. reintroduced Lutheranism and strengthened it through the Upper Palatinate state visit of 1581/82. The condition of the parish is also described and the church and rectory are described as dilapidated. An altar is still there, but the baptismal font is in the cemetery, so that the pastor carries out baptisms in the parsonage with a pewter bowl all year round. The predecessor took the church registers with him to Pleystein . The successor to Count Palatine Ludwig was Count Palatine Friedrich IV. Due to the principle of “ cuius regio eius et religio ” he forced Oberlind to become Calvinist again. With the takeover of Upper Palatinate by Elector Maximilian I and the beginning of the Counter-Reformation , the area was "made Catholic" again, but the parish was not occupied; Only when the Capuchin Order moved into Vohenstrauss in 1651 did Oberlind receive pastoral care from there; there was no longer a secular priest here.
After the secularization of 1802, the Capuchin monastery in Vohenstrauß was closed and the Capuchins had to stop their activities. Now Oberlind was cared for by a secular priest and a cooperator from Vohenstrauss, but it is said that between 1802 and 1815 only nine services took place and after 1815 none at all. All efforts to re-establish a parish in Oberlind were unsuccessful. However, it was agreed with the parish in Vohenstrauß that mass would be held on the high feast days ( White Sunday , St. Thomas's Day , Sunday after Corpus Christi ) and that there would be a walk around the corridor on Whit Monday . Today in the church there are celebrations related to the year , such as B. Nativity plays or the patronage festival instead.
building
The church is a choir tower church with a Gothic core from the 14th century. The interior is spanned by a brick barrel vault with stitch caps and belt arches. This rests on pilasters . At the end of the 18th century the church was so dilapidated that services could no longer be held here. The steeple leaned to one side, so the bells had to be removed. The altar vault under the tower had cracked and the nave was in danger of collapsing. For the services one now had to resort to the chapel on the Calvary .
The municipality of Oberlind was able to provide 100 fl for the repair and 600 fl could be borrowed from the parishes in the Tannenberg-Treswitz office. Construction work began in 1793. The tower was partially demolished and rebuilt. The nave vaults and the west gable were also knocked down. The masonry could be prevented from breaking apart by adding buttresses that are still in place today. On August 5, 1795, Father Franz de Paula was able to announce the completion of the renovation work to the government in Amberg. The church building has not changed significantly since then. There is also the square church tower on the east side with a pointed spire under which the rectangular choir is located.
In 1964 a sacristy was added. Since the church was in need of renovation, in 2001, after discussions about monument protection, the church was extended by an annex with a yoke during the renovation. The gallery also had to be relocated. The outer facade was newly plastered, the church furnishings were renovated and on this occasion the forecourt was also redesigned.
Interior
The furnishings consist of baroque altars from around 1720. The high altar shows a Pietà ; the saints Anthony of Padua and Francis of Assisi represent the side figures. The side altars are dedicated to St. Isidore and St. Notburga .
organ
In the course of the renovation work, the church administration decided to purchase an organ. A used instrument with 13 registers on two manuals and a pedal was bought that had been in a private household in the Black Forest. The instrument was manufactured in 1974 by the Klaus Becker company from Kupfermühle . In 1994 Bernhard Fleig from Basel added the pedal mechanism. The reorganization was carried out by the Kubak company ( Augsburg ).
Before that there was a two-manual and richly decorated harmonium , which was now obsolete.
literature
- Volker Wappmann: Catholic Church of St. Thomas in Oberlind. In church guides to churches and chapels in the city and large parish Vohenstrauss. (= Streifzüge - contributions to local history and local history of the city and large community Vohenstrauss and the surrounding area, 15th year, 2000, issue 22 ), pp. 31–33.
- Monika Uschold, Hermann Uschold: Festschrift for the rededication of the branch church St. Thomas, Oberlind. Filialgemeinde Oberlind (Ed.), 2001.
- Andreas Weiß: The organs in the churches of the Vohenstrauss congregation. In church guides to churches and chapels in the city and large parish Vohenstrauss. (= Streifzüge - contributions to local history and local history of the city and large community Vohenstrauß and the surrounding area , 15th year, 2000, issue 22), p. 83.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria, Altbayern Series I, Issue 39: Vohenstrauss. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich, 1977, p. 73.
- ↑ Nativity Scene in Oberlind, Onetz, December 26, 2017
- ↑ Patroziniumstag the Oberlinder branch church, Onetz from February 7, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '24.1 " N , 12 ° 19' 4.7" E