Castle chapel (Abenberg)

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Castle chapel, east side

The castle chapel in Abenberg belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Jakobus (Dürrenmungenau) ( Deanery Windsbach ).

history

The residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination had been parish to St. Jakobus in Dürrenmungenau since 1833. When their number had grown to 100 around 1880, they looked for a prayer room in Abenberg. The then lord of the castle, the Württemberg captain a. D. and chamber singer Anton Schott , who had the former sheepfold converted into a chapel for his Evangelical Lutheran wife, offered it as a prayer room. On October 23, 1884, in a contract between Anton Schott and Pastor Hensolt, the parish was guaranteed free use of the chapel for all time. The chapel was consecrated on October 26, 1884.

Originally the Dürrenmungenau pastor held six sermon and two communion services here every year. After the number of Protestants in Abenberg had grown to 300 at the end of the 1970s, the monthly service was introduced, in 1991 the Sunday service.

Building description

The castle chapel, a ground-floor sandstone block building with a gable roof and a bell tower as a roof turret on the west side, was built in the neo-Gothic style. On the east side there is a pointed arch portal, to the left and right of it and above it pointed arch windows. On the north side there are two groups of two with small rectangular windows, on the south side there are two groups with small rectangular windows and a wooden door.

The single-nave hall ends with a wood-paneled barrel vault. A wooden gallery has been drawn in on the east side. In the middle of the west wall there is an altar, to the left and right of which there are benches, and above it a painting depicting a Golgotha ​​by the Munich professor Wilhelm Beckmann . The chapel offers seating for up to 60 people.

The chapel was renovated for its 100th anniversary.

literature

  • Horst Heissmann (Ed.): ... in the midst of you: 200 years of the Windsbach deanery . History, Parishes & Institutions. Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Neuendettelsau 2009, ISBN 978-3-87214-801-8 , p. 73 .
  • Günther Zeilinger with e. Working group d. Dekanates (Ed.): Windsbach - a deanery in Franconia (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1987, ISBN 3-87214-220-8 , p. 86-87 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 36.7 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 50.7 ″  E