Memorial Chapel (Obersteinbach ob Gmünd)

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The memorial chapel is a chapel in Obersteinbach ob Gmünd . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Jakobus (Dürrenmungenau) in the Windsbach deanery .

After the Catholic residents refused to ring out the Protestant dead , a bell foundation was founded on February 17, 1925, to which all residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination belonged, in order to build their own bell tower. In the same year a memorial chapel for the fallen of the First World War was finally built and inaugurated on July 12th. The architect was a Herr Ritter from Nuremberg. The association bears the costs for any repairs to this day. The chapel was last extensively renovated in 2000.

The memorial chapel is a rectangular sandstone block with a hipped roof and a roof turret in the middle. The south and north sides measure about 7 meters, the east and west sides about 5 meters. The height is 7.50 meters without the turret, and about 10 meters with the turret. On the west side there is the pointed arch portal, left and right of it two small rectangular windows. On the south and north sides there is an axis with a pointed arch window. The tower with dials on the south and north sides and pointed arch sound holes on the west and east sides ends with a pyramid roof on which a weather vane was subsequently placed.

The chapel seats 40 people. As a rule, there is an evening service once a month.

literature

  • 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. 74-75 .
  • Willi Ulsamer (Ed.): 100 Years of the Schwabach District (1862–1962). A home book . Schwabach 1964, DNB  984880232 , p. 397 .
  • 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. 87-88 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ So H. Heissmann (Ed.), P. 75; G. Zeilinger (Ed.), P. 88. According to W. Ulsamer (Ed.), P. 397, the chapel was built in 1927.
  2. ↑ H. Ulsamer (Ed.), P. 397.
  3. ↑ H. Heißmann (Ed.), P. 75.

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 58.8 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 41 ″  E