Church of the Assumption of Mary (Mariä Himmelfahrt), Friesenhausen

Church of the Assumption of Mary (Mariä Himmelfahrt), Friesenhausen

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Church of the Assumption of Mary (Mariä Himmelfahrt), Friesenhausen

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Location: Aidhausen, Haßberge, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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September 20, 2023

Cycling

An insider tip for those interested in art is the Catholic castle and, since 1885, parish church of the Assumption of Mary, built in 1713-1715 on behalf of Canon Johann Philipp Fuchs of Dornheim. His coat of arms, an upright fox, is placed above the church entrance and main altar. The architect was the prince-bishop's urban and rural architect Joseph Greising (1664-1721), Balthasar Neumann's direct predecessor and one of the great Baroque architects in Franconia.

Source: aidhausen.de/DE/Friesenhausen.html

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September 20, 2023

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The single-nave building with its three bays and the retracted apsidal choir appears very three-dimensional thanks to the elaborate stone cladding of the elegant single-tower façade, the pilaster structures and the strongly profiled window frames. In niches to the left and right of the entrance there are figures of St. Burkard and St. Kunigunde, symbols for the dioceses of Würzburg and Bamberg, on the upper floor a Christ Salvator.

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September 20, 2023

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The interior, which is magnificently stuccoed in the late Baroque style, is vaulted by a barrel cap on Tuscan pilasters. The austere marble altars with their columns made of black …

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