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St. Josef Church (Weiden in der Oberpfalz)

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St. Josef Church (Weiden in der Oberpfalz)

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Location: Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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3. Upper Market Weiden – Old Town Hall loop from Weiden in der Oberpfalz

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

May 20, 2025

St. Joseph's Church is considered the largest post-medieval church building in the Diocese of Regensburg. The neo-Romanesque basilica was built in just 18 months between 1899 and 1901. The painting by Munich painter Franz Hofstötter, created a few years later, and the interior furnishings, which are attributable to the Art Nouveau style, make St. Joseph's Church one of the most important and largest Art Nouveau churches in Bavaria.

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Staufer

July 31, 2024

Parish Church of St. Joseph

The parish church of St. Joseph was built in 1899-1900 by the then rapidly growing Catholic parish of the town of Weiden under parish priest Max Joseph Söllner. To make the construction possible, a Bavaria-wide church collection was even approved at the end of 1896. The design for the new church building was by the Munich architect Johann Baptist Schott, who was one of the busiest church builders of the late historicism period in Bavaria. Schott chose a strict architecture for St. Joseph, based on Romanesque models. The exterior building, with its monumental two-tower façade, is effectively set in the street line in terms of urban development.

The parish church of St. Joseph is a three-aisled church with two mighty integrated front towers. The transept, inserted between the nave and the choir, closes on both sides with a semicircular apse. For urban planning reasons, the church is oriented to the north. The exterior is structured by round-arch arcades and pilaster strips, which are connected by round-arch friezes. The four-storey, richly structured towers end in triangular gables, above which the pointed tower roofs rise. The dimensions of the church are: length 64 metres, width 25 metres, width of the transept 35 metres, height of the nave inside 18 metres, height of the towers 63 and 64 metres.

The baptismal chapel at the main entrance on the left seems like a wonderful reception room to the visitor. The nave is decorated with figures from Old Testament models.

The adoration of the Holy Trinity is impressive in the apse vault. The centre and heart of this church is the golden high altar, designed like a magnificent reliquary. The five mysteries of the joyful rosary are depicted in relief images. The twelve apostles are presented to us in the chancel as witnesses of faith.

St. Joseph's Church owes its unique fascination to the contrast between the neo-Romanesque architecture and the Art Nouveau furnishings. When entering the church, every visitor senses the mysterious atmosphere and the sacred dignity of the space, which invites inner peace and gives a sense of eternity.

Source: weiden-st-josef.de / wikipedia.de

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Andreas Bikefan

August 14, 2024

It is hardly surprising that the furnishing of the Catholic St. Joseph's Church in the heart of Weiden took 14 years. The abundance of what was created in Art Nouveau more than a hundred years ago is overwhelming. There is always something new to discover on the pillars, walls and ceiling. The paintings range from the roots of faith in our homeland (pictures of messengers of faith on the walls of the transept) back to the first stories of the Holy Scripture with the various creation stories. The idea that the world is actually entrusted to man as a garden where he should prosper (painting with Adam and Eve in paradise to the right of the left side altar), and that all life is a gift, God's creation (Adam is brought to life by the breath of God, relief above the entrance from the church to the Sacrament Chapel, to the left of the left side altar), is little known to "modern" people. The church offers the opportunity to

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St. Josef Church (Weiden in der Oberpfalz)

1. Upper Market Weiden – Old Town Hall loop from Weiden in der Oberpfalz

2. Aviary in Max-Reger Park – Max-Reger Park loop from Weiden (Oberpf)

3. Upper Market Weiden – Old Town Hall loop from Weiden in der Oberpfalz

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