St. Gumbertus (Ansbach)

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St. Gumbertus Church Ansbach
inside view
Swan Knights Chapel
Swan order altar donated by Albrecht Achilles in 1484 , on the left predella of which he had himself and his second wife Anna of Saxony depicted.

St. Gumbertus , together with its neighboring church St. Johannis, is one of the central inner-city churches of Ansbach in Bavaria .

The St. Gumbert , the Virgin Mary and St. Salvator sacred monastery of St. Gumbert was founded by the Holy. Gumbert. From 748 to 911/1012 it was a Benedictine monastery ; later it was a collegiate pen . It was dissolved in 1563 and the provost's office was no longer occupied. The monastery goods formed a fund for church and school purposes under state administration, which was only secularized under Maximilian von Montgelas . The St. Gumbertus Church and parts of the monastery have been preserved. The church serves as the Evangelical Lutheran parish church.

history

The history of St. Gumbertus goes back to the early days of the former residence. The name of the church is reminiscent of the Frankish noble free Gumbert , who built a Marian monastery around 748 at the confluence of the Rezat and Onoldsbach rivers, whose monks followed the Benedictine rule of " ora et labora ". In the 11th century the monastery of St. Gumbert was converted into a canons' monastery and experienced a great time (see also the list of provosts of the collegiate monastery of St. Gumbertus in Ansbach ); so it was the eponymous owner of the Gumbertus Bible . The brothers of the monastery were also active in the upper Aisch valley . Finally, in 1528, through a state parliament resolution under Margrave Georg the Pious, the church and the Margraviate of Ansbach joined the Evangelical Lutheran Reformation .

The St. Gumbertus Church combines the changing architectural styles of less than a millennium, starting with the oldest parts of Ansbach, still visible today ( crypt around 1040), through the George Chapel (14th century), the high choir of the former late Romanesque main church ( today's Swan Knights Chapel from the 16th century) to the margravial representative church, which Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich had built in 1738 by Leopoldo Retti . The sculptor who created the epitaphs of the swan knights was given the name Master of the Ansbach Swan Knights as an emergency name . In 1484, the Elector of Brandenburg Albrecht Achilles donated the so-called swan order altar , on the left predella of which he had himself and his second wife Anna of Saxony depicted.

present

After the end of the margraviate , the former court church became a parish church. Its three districts now encompass the eastern half of the city with around 6,000 parishioners.

Today St. Gumbertus is used as a location for a variety of concerts and church events, such as B. church music performances by the Ansbach church music and the Windsbacher boys choir or concert events of the Bach week . Spiritual life is made possible by the always open church with many liturgical forms, of which, in addition to the services, especially the smaller forms such as “Time for you”, “ Taizé prayer”, “Good night church” and the “Bismarck tower devotions” “Are to be mentioned.

organ

Brochure detail

The organ was built between 1736 and 1739 by Johann Christoph Wiegleb and, after the deinstallation of the organ later built by Steinmeyer, it was reconstructed by the Dutch organ builder Orgelmakerij Reil from Heerde from 2004 to 2007 . Today the organ has 47 registers on 3 manuals and a pedal .

I Lower work C – d 3
Quintatön 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Salacional 8th'
Roughly Gedakt 8th'
Gembshorn 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Flaut travers (from c 0 ) 8th'
Octava 4 ′
Flöth or Klein Gedakt 4 ′
Quinta 3 ′
Super Octava 2 ′
Mixture XIII-X 2 ′
Cymbel II 2 ′
Sesquialtra II-III 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Trumpet 8th'
Oboe d'amour 8th'
II Upper Work C – d 3
Fugara 8th'
Coarse 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flutes 4 ′
Recorders 4 ′
Octava 2 ′
Forest flutes 2 ′
Flaschiolet 2 ′
Quinta 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
Mixture IV 1'
bassoon 16 ′
Vox humana 8th'
III Medium Work C – d 3
Quintates 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Petitt 4 ′
Spitzflöth 4 ′
Nassat 3 ′
Sallicinet 2 ′
Night horn 2 ′
echo
Tremulant
Accord star
Basses C – d 1
Sub bass 32 ′
Principal bass 16 ′
Violon bass 16 ′
Quintaden bass 16 '
Octave bass 8th'
Quint bass 6 ′
Bassetgen 4 ′
Mixture Bass VI 4 ′
Cymbel Bass II 2 ′
Trombones bass 16 ′
  • Playing aids :
    • Lower work: check valve, sliding coupling to the middle manual
    • Middle work: "Echo", "Machin Zug zum Echo", "Lock valve to the upper manual"
    • Upper work: "Lock valve to the middle manual", sliding coupling to the upper manual
    • Bass: Lock valve to the pedal
    • Calcant: Manual activation of a bell on the bellows for manual wind generation (historical)

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 7-17 .
  • 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. 58-63 .

Web links

Commons : St. Gumbertus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. 1950; 2nd edition, Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 99.
  2. ^ The Mark Brandenburg under the early Hohenzollern: Peter Knüvener, Dirk Schumann (Ed.): Contributions to history, art and architecture in the 15th century ( online )
  3. ↑ More about the Wiegleb organ

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 10 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 24 ″  E