All Saints Church (Kleinschwarzenlohe)

The All Saints Church in Kleinschwarzenlohe

Interior of the church

The Apostle Farewell Altar by Tilman Riemenschneider

The Evangelical Lutheran branch church of All Saints is a fortified church in Kleinschwarzenlohe , a district of Wendelstein in the Central Franconian district of Roth . It is a protected architectural monument .

history

The building was donated in 1448 by the Kleinschwarzenloh citizens Fritz Beer and Hans Weiß and built as a field church based on the model of the Katzwang fortified church to the west outside the village . In the same year it was consecrated and first mentioned. A short time later, a donation was made by the Rieter von Kornburg , who were based in the neighboring Rieterschloss . This made it possible for the church to have its own priest, so that from 1470 masses could take place there regularly. The church tower was not added until 1513 . The bell in turn was donated by the Rieter family, who held the patronage . During the Reformation the church was closed and damaged in the Second Margrave War in 1552/53. A comprehensive renovation was only carried out between 1600 and 1626. During this time, the wall around the churchyard with the gate was built. The sandstone blocks of the gateway are marked with the year 1600 and enclose a small cemetery that is protected as a ground monument.

During the Thirty Years' War , the Rieter moved their family crypt from the badly damaged Kornburg church to the All Saints Church.

With the extinction of the Rieter family in 1753, the church came to the Nuremberg Heilig-Geist-Spital as part of its foundation assets and thus became the property of the city of Nuremberg.

After 1806, the church was threatened with demolition during the period of secularization . However, citizen protests prevented this, and in the 1800s was directly east Mesnerhaus built, which is now in the also owned by the Evangelical Church. The Bavarian original cadastre shows All Saints' Day in the 1810s as a wasteland with two hearths, its own well, the church and the church and the sacred field , clearly separated from the Altort Kleinschwarzenloh.

The parish was originally a branch of Katzwang , since the 18th century at the latest it has been part of the Kornburg parish , today Kornburg — Kleinschwarzenlohe — Neuses parish in the Schwabach deanery .

On May 1st, 1968 the church was transferred to the Protestant parish of Kornburg.

Since 1973, there is a small organ by Steinmeyer six registers .

description

The eastern choir tower is three-story with a pointed roof and pointed arched sound windows . The choir in the basement has a ribbed vault . In the nave is hidden on a flat wooden ceiling, which was drafted in 1605, a Gothic vault of wood. The windows of the choir and nave are pointed arched with tracery . Carefully hewn sandstone blocks from the three kilometers north of the Kornberg quarries were used as building material. The slightly reddish color suggests their origin in the Holstein quarry or on the Glasersberg . The portal of the churchyard wall consists of a somewhat lighter, yellowish material, Wendelstein quartzite. This was broken at the Wernloch . The rest of the wall consists of roughly hewn rubble stones and humpback ashlars .

Furnishing

Tilman Riemenschneider carved the high altar in 1491. It is a winged altar . When opened, it shows a relief of the apostles' farewell, when closed, a painting of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit . The crucifix above the high altar was created at the same time. In the choir there is also a sacrament niche with the date 1473. The Catherine altar to the right of the choir arch , also a winged altar, was created in the years 1418 to 1420 by the master of the Marien Altar of the Nuremberg Frauenkirche . The crucifixion altar to the left of the choir arch is also a work from Nuremberg from around 1480. Two altar wings from around 1460 can be seen on the south wall of the nave. These are attributed to the environment of the master of the Wolfgang altar of the Nuremberg Lorenzkirche . The master gallery with post-Gothic carvings is built into the north wall . It was built in 1605 at the same time as the wooden ceiling. The church also contains other works of art, including a figure of Anna Selbdritt from around 1420. Monuments and plaques for the Rieter family should also be mentioned. Paintings from around 1500 can be seen in the church, for example on the choir arch. The ringing consists of a single bell , the Ave Maria bell, cast in 1503, which is tuned in b '.

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia , Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin / Munich 1979, ISBN 3-422-00359-2 , p. 427
Out and about together: Churches and parishes in the district of Roth and the city of Schwabach , Schwabach / Roth 2000, ISBN 3-922-57516-1

Karl Gröber, Felix Mader : City and district of Schwabach (= The art monuments of Bavaria . Middle Franconia 7). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1939, DNB 366496239 , p. 209-227 .

Tilman Riemenschneider: Early Works: Catalog for the exhibition in the Mainfränkisches Museum 1981 , Verlag Friedrich Pustet Regensburg 1981, ISBN 3-7917-0724-8 , p. 105

Willi Ulsamer (Ed.): 100 Years of the Schwabach District (1862–1962). A home book . Schwabach 1964, DNB 984880232 , p. 355-362 .