Trinity Church (Lichtenau)

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The Trinity Church in Lichtenau

The Dreieinigkeitskirche ( listen ? / I ) is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after the Holy Trinity in Lichtenau ( Dean's Office Windsbach ). Audio file / audio sample

Parish

The patronage was originally St. Barbara of Nicomedia . St. Barbara was originally a branch of St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) .

On July 2, 1809, the towns of Boxbrunn , Stritthof and Weickershof von Sachsen were added, in 1857 Ballmannshof von Wolframs-Eschenbach and finally Herpersdorf von Sachsen in 1936 . Until 1810 the parish of Lichtenau belonged to the deanery of Leutershausen . At that time it had 283 parishioners. In 2009 there are 1614 members.

Building history

Under the construction management of Christoph Theophilus Volkamer , the church was built in the late baroque style in 1724 in just one year. It served as a replacement for St. Barbara's Church, which was demolished in 1688 for military reasons. Only three bells (1615/16 or the baptismal bell in the second third of the 16th century) were taken from the old church, two of which are still ringing today. The entire interior (altar, pulpit, baptismal font, choir stalls) also dates from 1724. The interior was renovated in 1956/57, and the exterior in 1989/90.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 122-124 .
  • 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. 52-53 .
  • 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. 161-168 .
  • Eberhard Krauss: Exiles in the Evangelical Luth. Deanery Windsbach in the 17th century. A family history investigation (=  sources and research on Franconian family history . Volume 19 ). Society for Family Research in Franconia, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-929865-12-7 , p. 38-43 u. passim .
  • 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. 60-66 .

Web links

Commons : Trinity Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 161.

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 12.5 ″  E