St. Wendelin (Spielberg)
The listed Roman Catholic branch church of St. Wendelin is located in Spielberg in the Upper Palatinate , a district of Waldthurn (Spielberg 9). The patronage is dedicated to St. Wendelin and is celebrated every year on October 20th.
history
A chapel was built in Spielberg (Waldthurn) as early as 1767 , because on May 16, 1767, Pastor Joan Nicolaus Widmann informed the Episcopal Ordinariate in Regensburg that Spielberg would use his own resources to build a small chapel (with the dimensions 3.5 x 2, 1 meter) with a bell weighing 24 kg. The nursing office had given its approval on May 2, 1767. In 1826 Pastor Johann Paul Kohlbeck reported that the chapel had been violently destroyed in 1803, but that a wealthy parishioner wanted to rebuild it with a little tower. The ordinariate gave its permission for this on September 22, 1828. The requested benediction , so that one could also celebrate Holy Mass , was not carried out for unknown reasons.
In 1928 a chapel building association was founded to build a new chapel. This consisted of 13 residents of Spielberg. The carpenter Michael Einweg provided the construction plan for the chapel (he later also erected the roof structure free of charge) and construction began in 1933. For this purpose, the previous chapel from the 19th century was demolished, also because the stones wanted to be reused. For stabilization, piles had to be driven into the ground. The masonry work was done by master mason Säckl from Flossenbürg , the granite stones were broken by Ruppert and Johann Schmaderer. The community residents performed extensive manual and clamping services for the construction . Pastor Georg Haller viewed the restored building rather skeptically, as a cooperator was now supposed to take the long walk for the school fair from Waldthurn to Spielberg every week. Despite these concerns, the new chapel was inaugurated on November 11, 1934 by Pastor Georg Haller.
Church building
The St. Wendelin branch church in Spielberg is a hall church with a pitched roof and a retracted, rounded, closed choir . The little church has a gable top , which is closed with a pyramid roof.
Interior
The original altarpiece depicts Saint Wendelin as a shepherd and a monk, he is considered the patron saint of shepherds and country people and was probably an abbot of the Tholey monastery . This picture was later split and the two framed pictures are now on the side of the altar. The church has an old way of the cross , a statue of the Madonna and Child and a statue of Sebastian; all of these works of art come from the old chapel.
literature
- Franz Bergler (text), Helmut Gollwitzer (red.): House book of the market town of Waldthurn. Medienhaus Weiden, Weiden 2003.
- Franz Bergler: Waldthurn: rule, market and parish; in the service of the homeland. Spintler, Weiden 2014.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 8.9 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 39 ″ E