St. Johannis cemetery chapel (Wassertrüdingen)

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St. Johannis cemetery chapel
Further epitaphs under the adjacent arcades

The St. Johannis cemetery chapel is an Evangelical Lutheran chapel in Wassertrüdingen in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach . The chapel named after John the Baptist belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Wassertrüdingen and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments under monument number D-5-71-214-5 .

location

The church is located north of the town center and in the southern area of ​​the cemetery at an altitude of 429 meters above  sea ​​level . The postal address is Lentersheimer Straße 8.

Building history

The chapel was built in 1588 after the cemetery at the town church was moved here in 1570. The mayor of Wassertrüdingen at the time, Lorenz Lenck (1560–1620), put all his might to support the building. It is a plastered hall with a retracted choir and roof turrets . An extension took place in 1889. Further changes were made in 1902 and 1956.

Furnishing

There is a white baptismal font in the choir in front of the altar . It was created in 1982 by the sculptor Ernst Steinacker . A crucified Christ hangs above the altar, carved by the Wassertrüdingen sculptor Friedrich Meyer in 1935. The late Gothic winged altar that had been in the chapel until then was moved to the town church of Wassertrüdingen. A fresco from the time the chapel was built shows Christ as the ruler of the world. It is framed by the four evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John .

In and on the church there is a large number of epitaphs and memorial plaques . A death shield for Jörgludwig von Eyb from 1555 probably came from the town church to the newly built St. John's Chapel . An epitaph and several memorial plaques remember Lorenz Lenck, who was mayor of Wassertrüdingen when the chapel was built. The artistically most significant epitaph, probably from 1616, shows the family of the dean Zacharias Ziegler .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Lierler, Friedrich Lösch: The Wassertrüdinger cemetery and its St. John's chapel . Ed .: Evang.-Luth. Parish of Wassertrüdingen.

Web links

Commons : St. Johannis cemetery chapel (Wassertrüdingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran cemetery chapel St. Johannis , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on April 25, 2020)
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )

Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 48.1 ″  E