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Former Cistercian Abbey Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Walderbach

Former Cistercian Abbey Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Walderbach

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Former Cistercian Abbey Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Walderbach

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Location: Walderbach, Cham, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Pfaffenstein – Walderbach Monastery loop from Reichenbach

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2. Walderbach Monastery – Walderbach Monastery loop from Walderbach

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3. Walderbach Monastery – Walderbach Monastery loop from Reichenbach

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Staufer

June 19, 2023

Former monastery church of St. Maria and St. Nikolaus

The Romanesque church was built as a three-nave hall with eight bays and a choir in the form of three parallel apses. To the west of the nave was an entrance hall extending across the entire width of the building - a paradise - which opened with three portals into the three naves of the nave.
The original ornamental paintings on the ribs, dividing and belt arches of the vault are of architectural interest.
The three-story rococo tower of the church with pilaster structure and onion dome was built in 1779 in place of the originally Romanesque vestibule.
Several altars from the second half of the 18th century form the main pieces of furniture. The main altar is a broadly proportioned, four-column canopy structure with late Baroque-early Classicist ornamentation. The altarpiece depicts the patron saints of the Church of St. Nicholas and Mary; the side figures with gold frames are Saint Bernhard on the left and Saint Luitgard on the right kneeling in front of the Crucified. Ivory-colored carved reliefs depicting scenes from the life of Saint Nicholas can be found on the bases of the columns.
Six side altars are designed as flat column structures with ornaments of tendrils, ribbons or shells. The eastern altars are decorated with richly decorated reliquary tabernacles of Saints Probus and Fausta and altarpieces by Valentin Reischl from Waldmünchen, which show Saint Sebastian on the left and Saint John of Nepomuk on the right.
The middle altars are dedicated to Saint Bernhard and the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
The north-west side altar shows the death of Saint Joseph in the painting and Saints Joachim and Anna as side figures, the opposite altar in the painting shows the martyrdom of Saint Barbara and Saints John the Baptist and Elisabeth as side figures.

Source: excerpts from Wikipedia and church guide former Cistercian monastery church Walderbach

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Willi Backhaus

June 27, 2023

Beautiful church, especially inside

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Former Cistercian Abbey Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Walderbach

1. Pfaffenstein – Walderbach Monastery loop from Reichenbach

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