St. Walburga (Bad Steben)

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St. Walburga is a fortified church and the old Evangelical-Lutheran parish church of Bad Steben . It is right next to the Luther Church .

history

Tradition ascribes a great age to an original chapel and gives it the status of an original parish. The masonry can be dated to the 13th or 14th century. A dispute that lasted through the 14th century is documented: the rich mother parish of St. Lorenz in Hof was to be occupied by a Bamberg canon at the urging of the Bamberg bishop with the support of the Pope . The Hofer pastor from the von Weißelsdorf family opposed this order in 1374, he was relieved of his office and an interdict was pronounced over the parish ; The rulers, the bailiffs of Weida and the Nuremberg burgraves were also banned from church . In 1374, the Nuremberg burgrave Friedrich V dissolved the parish church in Steben and the chapel in Naila from belonging to St. Lorenz and transferred the feudal and occupation rights to Count Otto von Orlamünde and his descendants. When Caspar von Waldenfels acquired the rule of Lichtenberg in 1427 , his family also took over the patronage of the church.

After the destruction that has been handed down through the Hussite Wars in 1430 and in the Waldenfels feud in 1444, a defensive bullet was added and the churchyard was fortified. At the time of the Reformation , Hans von Waldenfels was an early supporter of the new doctrine. The church was damaged again during the Second Margrave War and the Thirty Years' War . The coats of arms of the Margraves Christian Ernst and Karl Alexander are evidence of the renovation work during the time of the Principality of Kulmbach-Bayreuth .

The lack of seats finally led to the construction of the Luther Church in 1910, the nave of St. Walburga was demolished that same year. The new church was able to accommodate both the increased population and the spa guests. The currency devaluation of the 1920s delayed necessary maintenance work on the old church.

Furnishing

The special features of the furnishings include a sacrament house and a baptismal angel . In 1911, during repair work, the secco paintings in the choir room were rediscovered , which had been painted over at the end of the 17th century and which are dated to around 1510.

Tombs commemorate Ernst von Waldenfels , his wife Maria, a née Marschalk von Pappenheim, and two of their sons. An epitaph refers to the five children of Wolf Christoph von Reitzenstein . These died between 1714 and 1719 and were buried in a tomb discovered in 1970.

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  1. ↑ Frotscher, p. 5f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 '57.4 "  N , 11 ° 38' 32.9"  E