Chapel Frickenfelden

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Chapel Frickenfelden
Information board on the bell tower

The Evangelical Lutheran chapel in Frickenfelden , a district of the Middle Franconian town of Gunzenhausen , belongs to the parish of St. Michael in Unterasbach in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Gunzenhausen . The building has the address Mühlstrasse 1 and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian monument list under monument number D-5-77-136-162 .

The chapel was built in 1880 as a community and syringe house as well as a weighing house for hops and cattle . The building served as this until 1950. After an interior renovation, the building became a laundry room for refugees and a morgue . From 1975 to 1994 the building was finally empty. In 1994 the decision was made to convert the building into a chapel. The consecration took place on October 5, 1996. The tower has three floors and is crowned by a pointed helmet . The wooden furnishings come from the Georgensgmünder sculptor Reinhard Fuchs. Due to the fire tower with a bell to alert the firefighters and ogival sound openings, the building looked like a sacred building from the start. In monuments in Bavaria , the building has been compared to a small church .

The church bell was cast in 1694 by Johann Balthasar Heroldt from Nuremberg for the Michaelskirche in Unterasbach. The inscriptions “ANNO 1694 CHRISTO MICHAELI PASTOR INVUNTERASBACH CHRISTOF WAEGEMANN GOSS MICH IOHANN BALTHASAR HEROLDT IN NVRMBERG” and “AEDIL: IOHANN MICHAEL BEIER / ET / IOHANN GEORG HELDT” are on the bell. When the bell was no longer needed in Unterasbach, it first hung on an oak tree and was handed over to the Frickenfelden fire department in 1880.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : Kapelle (Frickenfelden)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence of the Unterasbach parish with the parishes Unterasbach-Frickenfelden and Oberasbach-Obenbrunn
  2. ↑ a b Chapel in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ a b c d e Church history Frickenfelden 2013
  4. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Kapelle , www.pointoo.de, accessed on September 9, 2013

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '4.4 "  N , 10 ° 47' 59.2"  E