Steinkirchen (Ortenburg)

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Stone churches
Ortenburg market
Coordinates: 48 ° 31 '59 "  N , 13 ° 13' 25"  E
Residents : 63  (1987)
Steinkirchen (Bavaria)
Stone churches

Location of Steinkirchen in Bavaria
The Protestant cemetery church of St. Laurentius
The Protestant cemetery church of St. Laurentius

Steinkirchen is a district of the Ortenburg market in the Lower Bavarian district of Passau .

location

Steinkirchen is located on the Würdinger Bach about one kilometer south of Ortenburg.

history

The place was the seat of the old former parish of Steinkirchen. A church of St. Laurentius in Steinkirchen is mentioned for the first time in 1130. The first reliable mention of a pastor in Steinkirchen is on February 12, 1241 in the will of Heinrich I von Ortenburg . It lists two priests from Steinkirchen as witnesses to the donation. After the Reformation was introduced in the imperial county of Ortenburg in 1563, the Laurentius Church in Steinkirchen became the cemetery church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ortenburg.

Steinkirchen belonged to the village of Dorfbach in 1824 and came to the newly formed rural community of Königbach in 1843. Like Steinkirchen, the village of Königbach was Protestant. With the municipality of Königbach, Steinkirchen came to the Ortenburg market on January 1, 1972 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria .

Attractions

  • Evangelical cemetery church of St. Laurentius . The late Gothic building from 1475 has a tower from the 13th century. Gothic wall frescoes from the 15th century can be found throughout the interior of the church. A winged altar with an oil painting of the Three Kings dates from around 1460 to 1470.

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