Christ Church (Herrieden)

The Christ Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after Jesus Christ in Herrieden ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

The area around Herrieden was originally purely Catholic. The first inhabitants of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination existed at the beginning of the 19th century. They were parish to St. Laurentius (Elpersdorf near Ansbach) . In 1842 there was a plan to build a Lutheran church in Herrieden, which, however, could not be implemented. When the number of Lutherans in the Herrieder room rose to almost 200 in the 1920s, a room was rented at the Wehr brewery in 1923 to hold church services. From May 18, 1928, the town hall hall served as a church service room. Altar, crucifix, altar ceiling and more were provided by the citizens. On March 19, 1933, the move was finally carried out in a room of the former district court . In 1943 the parish wanted to purchase the entire building, but was rejected because the building was to be used as a Hitler Youth home . Instead, the Protestants were allowed to use the Catholic Church of Our Lady . Their number rose sharply due to the influx of bomb refugees and, after 1945, also of those who had been expelled from their homes . On February 9, 1947, the building of a church was approved. 37,000 RM were available as capital for this purpose. According to the plans of the Ansbach architects Holzberger and Schramek, construction began on October 24, 1947. The church was consecrated on November 4, 1951. The parish was a branch of Elpersdorf, but had its own church council and administration from the start.

At the beginning of the 1990s there were 900 parishioners there, which led to the Christ Church being elevated to a parish in the following years. The parish now includes the political community of Herrieden with the exception of Höfstetten , Seebronn and Steinbach and has 1900 members.

Church building

The Christ Church is a choir tower church built from rubble sandstone . The tower in the west has a square floor plan and is two-storeyed and ends with a pyramid roof. The choir floor has a window on the south side. A three-part bell from the Bachert bell foundry hangs on the bell floor . The F sharp ¹ bell (800 kg) was inaugurated on 30 November 1960 the gis ¹ - (kg 575) and h ¹ bell (320 kg) on 19 January 1964. The nave has on the south and north side three Axes of arched windows. On the west side there is an arched portal with roofing, to the left and right of it an arched window and a small arched window above. The nave ends with a gable roof. On the north side of the tower is a single-storey extension with a gable roof. The single-nave hall is connected to the choir by an arched arcade. The entire interior is kept simple.

literature

• City of Herrieden (Ed.): Herrieden. City on the Altmühl . Fritz Majer & Sohn, Leutershausen 1982, ISBN 3-922175-08-2 , p. 167-169 .
• Manfred Jehle: Church conditions and religious institutions on the upper Altmühl, Rezat and Bibert: Monasteries, parishes and Jewish communities in the Altlandkreis Ansbach in the Middle Ages and in modern times (=  Middle Franconian Studies . Volume 20 ). Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-771-9 , p. 151 .
• Hans Sommer with e. Working group d. Dean's office (ed.): It happened in the name of faith: Protestant in the Ansbach deanery (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-87214-248-8 , p. 82-84 .

Web links

• herrieden-christuskirche.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 151.
2. ↑ Herrieden. Stadt an der Altmühl , p. 167ff.
3. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), Pp. 83f.
4. ↑ herrieden-christuskirche.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 32.7 ″  E