Evangelical Church (Ketteldorf)

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Ketteldorfer Church, south side

The Ketteldorfer Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Ketteldorf ( Deanery Ansbach ). It has no patronage .

Parish

The residents of Ketteldorf were originally supplied by St. Maria (Großhaslach) . Around 1200 the Heilsbronn monastery built a chapel there. The service was provided by Heilsbronn monks living in Ketteldorf. This came into conflict with the pastor of Großhaslach. In 1300 the monastery also acquired parish patronage in Großhaslach. Ketteldorf became a branch of St. Maria and from then on the service was provided by the Großhaslach pastor. As the church foundation had neither capital nor land for the chapel, repairs had to be carried out by the monastery. With the dissolution of the monastery in 1578, the chapel fell into disrepair. In 1716 it was demolished because it was in disrepair. In its place, today's church was built by the master builder Johann Wilhelm Zocha . The resulting costs of 546 florins were paid for by the church foundation of St. Martin (Kleinhaslach) .

Services are currently celebrated six times a year in the Ketteldorfer Church. The parish fair is always on the weekend before Midsummer Day (June 24th).

Church building

The church stands in the middle of the village over strong substructure walls on a hill. The hall consists of ashlar and quarry stone and ends with a gable roof. The ashlar masonry on the east side with a high rectangular slit window is stronger in the base. These are remains of the late Gothic predecessor building. There are three arched windows on the south side and an arched portal in the north. The tower is a half-timbered building with an octagonal tip and planted on the east side as a roof turret.

The hall, which ends with a flat wooden ceiling, is single-nave and has wooden galleries on the west and north sides. In the east there is a Baroque style pulpit altar from 1716. This makes it the oldest preserved pulpit altar in Middle Franconia. The sandstone altar table is late medieval. In 1955 the church was renovated.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 117 .
  • Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 126–130 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
  • 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. 105-106 .

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Muck, Vol. 2, p. 127.
  2. ↑ G. Muck, Vol. 2, p. 129.
  3. ↑ Ketteldorfer Church on the website grosshaslach-evangelisch.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 7.9 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 44.4"  E