St. Ulrich and Wolfgang (Tiefenthal)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Ulrich and Wolfgang (Ulrichs-Wolfgangskapelle) is a mountain church (formerly Castle Chapel) in Tiefenthal , a village and district of the city of Wörth an der Donau in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria . It was originally built in the Romanesque style and belongs as a side church to the parish of Pondorf in the diocese of Regensburg .
History and description of the building
The Ulrichs-Wolfgang chapel has a very interesting history . It was built as a double chapel and had two floors one above the other. Double chapels are almost always associated with mansions, often as castle chapels , as the sacred space was mostly on the ground floor and the upper floor was used for residential purposes. The Tiefenthal double chapel, however, was a church with two church rooms one above the other. There are numerous and clear indications in the building for this . It probably dates back to the 11th or 12th century. Nothing is left of the castle today, it was abandoned before 1400 and mentioned as Burgstall Tiefenthal in 1401 .
→ Article Burgstall Tiefenthal
The church offers a wealth of special features. The originally Romanesque building contains Gothic elements in the pointed arches of the southern apse window, and a Baroque tower with an onion dome was built over the Romanesque apse in the 17th century .
The altar was created around the middle of the 17th century and the altarpiece , which is painted on wooden panels and flanked by two columns, shows the saints Wolfgang, Ulrich and Albertus. Next to it are the painted wooden figures of Saint Nicholas and Saint Sebastian under volute canopies . Both figures probably date from the 16th century and are quite common in churches in southern Germany.
The painted wooden figure of Saint Wolfgang can be seen on the south wall of the nave at the entrance. It is considered to be the oldest wooden figure in a large area. Wooden figures of the Sorrowful Mother of God, St. Florian and St. Sebastian also date from the Baroque period .
Exterior and interior renovations were carried out in 1932, 1968, 1986 and 1987. In 2009 exterior renovations were again due and the onion dome of the church tower was renewed. The last interior renovation took place in 2013.
Bells
Two bells hung in the tower , cast by Johann Gordian Schelchshorn in Regensburg around 1666. One of them was melted down during World War II and replaced in 1947. The bell has been operated electrically since the 1960s.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria V, Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate, Munich 2008 ISBN 978-3422030114
- Ludwig Schindler (text author): City guide Wörth. Verlag Attenkofer, Straubing 2008, ISBN 978-3-936511-52-9 .
- Ludwig Schindler: Large community of the city of Wörth in the past and present. 1st edition. Wörth ad Donau 2001, OCLC 166027622
- Georg Hager: St. Ulrich and Wolfgang, Tiefenthal. Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Oberpfalz and Regensburg, District Office Regensburg 1910) unchanged reprint 1981, ISBN 3-486-50451-7
Web links
- Official website of the parish
- Churches in Wörth on the Danube.
- Official website of the city of Wörth
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 12 ° 25 ′ 44.6 ″ E