Friedenskirche (Ansbach)

The Friedenskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Ansbach ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

The parish developed from the 3rd district of St. Johannis (Ansbach) , which comprised the so-called garden city and the Dombach valley with Dombach im Loch . At the end of the 1950s there were around 3700 parishioners there. The simultaneous church of the Ansbach district clinic was located in the district , but was hardly used by the residents. In 1959 the construction of a church in the district was planned. In 1963 a building plot was acquired for this purpose on Crailsheimstrasse, which belonged to the Central Franconia district. The foundation stone was laid on May 30, 1964, and the church was consecrated on July 10, 1966. In addition to the church, a community center, rectory and sacristan's house of the same design was built. On August 9, 1967, the Friedenskirche was raised to an independent parish.

Church building

All buildings (hall, church tower, churchyard wall, parish and parsonage) are faced with Waldsassenern hard fire bricks and thus create a uniform overall impression. The hall building has a square floor plan and has a continuous ribbon of windows at the top on all sides, which was designed by the Parisian glass painter Max Ingrand . It ends with a folding roof that is covered with copper plates. A rectangular portal is located on the south side. The church tower stands a little to the northeast of the hall and is connected to it by an intermediate building. It is 36 meters high, has a square floor plan, is single storey and has a steep pyramid roof , which is also covered with copper plates. In this hang five bells that were cast by the Bachert bell foundry : "Peace" (440 kg, a ¹ ), "Faith" (320 kg, h ¹ ), "Love" (225 kg, cis ² ), "Hope" (130 kg, e ² ) and “Joy” (90 kg, f sharp ² ) based on the theme of the song “Come, Holy Spirit”.

Inside, the walls of the hall have exposed brickwork made of red-brown bricks. The fan-shaped ceiling, clad in wood, corresponds to the folding roof structure. In the middle of the hall, 96 crystal ball clamps hang from the ceiling, arranged in a double row of circles. The entire floor is covered with red clinker bricks for the walking areas. The church pews are made of light limba wood and are arranged in three groups (center, west and south side). There is seating for around 350 people. The altar, pulpit and baptismal font were created by the Ansbach stonemason Roland Vogel and are located on the east side. They consist of light Jurassic limestone. Behind the altar is a cross in the middle, which is flanked by three candlesticks each on the left and right. They were created by the then Neunkirchen pastor Martin Zorn. Twelve colored fabric pictures on the subject of peace hang on the walls, created by the graphic artist Gisela Harupa from Ansbach . The church organ is located on the north side.

literature

• 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. 64-68 .

Web links

• ansbach-friedenskirche.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 46.4 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 32.3 ″  E