St. Ulrich (Burkhardsrieth)
The Roman Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Ulrich in the Burkhardsrieth district of the Upper Palatinate town of Pleystein belongs to the Burkhardsrieth branch of the "Parish Pleystein".
history
The establishment of this church is probably due to the Landgrave of Leuchtenberg Ulrich I return. According to a document dated April 11, 1397, there is talk of a chapel on the Matzlsberg (today Ulrichsberg), in which a holy mass in honor of St. Ulrich and the Leuchtenbergers for the salvation of souls . This goes back to a foundation by Landgrave Johann I (1334-1407) and his son Sigost († 1398), who died early. According to a report from 1556, it says that the roof and woodwork of the church “completely collapsed, although the Burkhardsriether worship there on almost every Sunday and holiday and are pilgrim there.” The pilgrimages to the later newly built church still take place today.
The rebuilding of the church was suggested by Franz Ferdinand von Rummel , who later became the prince-bishop of the diocese of Vienna . In 1689, the construction of the church began despite resistance from the Pleystein pastor Wedl. Since he had distanced himself from the building of the church, it was inaugurated by the vice dean Lic. Johann Teutschmann, pastor of Tännesberg , and celebrated with a party organized by Mr. von Rummel . Pastor Puchtler von Pleystein inaugurated a new way of the cross here in 1769 , and Pope Pius IV gave a complete indulgence to all those who visit the church on July 4th (the anniversary of St. Ulrich's death) . In the course of secularization it was planned to tear down the church, but this was not done.
Next to the church was from 1726 to 1830 one of Hermit lived Klause . The first hermit named was Abraham Schindler, who moved into the hermitage built by Baroness Rummel on Pfrentsch in 1726. From 1733 he was granted two eighths of grain by the Pleystein caste office and he promised not to let up in his “daily prayer”. In 1748 Frater Wolfgang Huninger lived in the hermitage. A second brother, Joseph Hermann, lived here from 1758. The two asked in 1767 for a larger allocation of wood. The hermit Abraham Schindler died on September 27, 1769 with the beneficiary Wölfl in Waldau . Joseph Hermann first obtained the necessary food through his brother; When he sold his property in Burkhardsrieth, he asked the Pleystein lordship for a supply of two eighths of a grain. He died on May 10, 1795. The hermitage was then handed over to Brother Ephraim Wisner. This was admonished and on 1 July 1808 by the Royal Bavarian State Directorate threatened with stringent penalties because it without authority any of the Ulrichsberg angle school run. He died on March 30, 1830. After him a certain tithe lived in the hermitage; this had a bad reputation because he is said to have lived immorally with women. Therefore, the hermitage was torn down and the material used to build the "Schneiderhaus" in Burkhardsrieth (house no. 20), which is now a listed building. The way of the cross of the hermitage was brought to the chapel of Pfrentsch .
After the fire in the local church of St. Nicholas in 1879, all services were held on Ulrichsberg. The rumor later got around that smugglers had brought the cattle brought out by Bohemia into the church in order to hide them from the border guards. A request from Pastor Steger in 1931 to the Ordinariate in Regensburg as to whether the church would have to be re-consecrated because of this was answered negatively, as cattle would not be excreted. Christmas mass was celebrated for the first time on December 24, 1960 at Ulrichsberg .
Construction
The church is a hall church with a hipped roof and a recessed rectangular choir on the 501 meter high Ulrichsberg. The church has an attached choir apex tower, which is closed by a pointed helmet . The year "1689" refers to the new building of the pilgrimage church.
A comprehensive renovation took place between 1957 and 1961, which was operated by a newly founded "Ulrichsverein Burkhardsrieth". An exterior renovation with a roof renewal took place in 1979.
Interior
The church has three early baroque altars with acanthus . In 1960 the church painter Michael Neunert from Amberg repainted the ceiling and walls. On this occasion, the three altars that were pulpit , twelve figures of saints and crosses three newly adopted . The church has a wooden gallery and a coffered ceiling.
literature
- Siegfried Poblotzki : History of the rule, the city and the parish Pleystein. Pp. 1136-1145. Verlag Stadt Pleystein, Pleystein 1980.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the parish Pleystein , accessed on March 17, 2020.
- ↑ Walter Beyerlein: Believers celebrate Ulrichsbergfest , Onetz of July 2, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2020.
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 26.2 ″ E