Monastery of Our Lady of Feuchtwangen

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former collegiate church in Feuchtwangen

The monastery of St. Redeemer or the collegiate monastery of Our Lady of Feuchtwangen is a former monastery or collegiate monastery in Feuchtwangen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg . The collegiate church has served as the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish since the Reformation .

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history

There are different theses and sometimes contradicting written statements about the development. Regarding the founding dates 817 or 816, which are often given, it should be noted that the meeting in Aachen lasted a long time (816, over the turn of the year) and that different calendars were used in the offices at that time ( high New Year ). The mention of the Benedictine monastery in documents goes back to the notitia de servitio monasteriorum , in which Feuchtwangen (Fruhelinwanc, Fiuhctinwanc) 818/19 is named as medium-wealthy. For this reason, the city is officially celebrating its 1200th anniversary in 2019.

The Koenighof, which is always used , has so far not been documented or proven for Feuchtwangen. Here it is forgotten that imperial monasteries were equated with a royal court or a royal palace. The Sulzach - ford , today at the Town Mill recognizable to which the Altweg (as his successor on the height above the streets pretzels Mountain , Jahn Street , Post Street and Lower Torstraße running) approaching directly and cut the former monastery area formerly was certainly a major reason to build a settlement here to consolidate the Frankish conquest. Professor D. Hauck says in his church history: “Bishop Hariolf von Langres recently founded the Ellwangen Monastery on the Swabian-Franconian border by Pippins (741 - 768). The neighboring Feuchtwangen is a little younger. ”The origin of the same under Charlemagne is fairly certain. And in the second statement of his work, Hauck writes when listing monasteries: “Feuchtwangen 768 St. Martin”, but the evidence for this is missing. If one assumes the patronage of St. Martin , the patron saint of the Franconian Empire , it is remarkable that the patronage in St. Salvator has changed. St. Salvator is the patron saint of the Tegernsee monastery (which is said to have changed from 804 to Quirinus von Tegernsee ). Here the question arises whether the Tegernsee monks around Dean Wigo and the learned monk Fromund brought this patronage with them, which is only mentioned around the year 1000. It is certain that the monastery was built at the same time as Ansbach (founded in 748) and Herrieden (founded in 783).

The Benedictine monastery, consecrated to St. Salvator , was founded before 817 as a manorial foundation . Later it came into royal possession and became an imperial abbey , which was classified as medium-wealthy when it was first mentioned in a document (817). In 817, Emperor Ludwig the Pious (814–840) summoned the abbots of the imperial monasteries to Aachen. With this meeting and its written mention in the chapter of the Imperial Synod in Aachen on July 10, 817, Feuchtwangen emerged from the dark of history. A comprehensive resolution was passed on July 10, 817. It also regulates the monastery's obligations towards the empire. The rich had to do taxes and military service, the wealthy, including Fiuchtingwank, only taxes, while the poor were only supposed to pray for the emperor and the empire. As a second mention, Gozbert and Wigrat are mentioned as local Feuchtwanger abbots in the Reichenau fraternization book , created in the years 820-824. The written sources are silent until the end of the 10th century. During this long period of time, the imperial monastery came into the hands of the bishop of Augsburg , Feuchtwangen is the northernmost parish or monastery of this diocese and St. Ulrich visited it personally several times. Later monastery life was in decline , probably due to the Hungarian invasions . Only a few old monks lived in the abbey. The abbot Gozbert von Tegernsee sent Tegernsee monks to revive it. This happened probably at the request of Bishop Luitold of Augsburg . In 991, the dean Wigo set out with several brothers to Feuchtwangen to get life in the monastery back on the right track. The catastrophic conditions in the monastery are described in 16 letters from the learned monk Froumund and his dean Wigo from the years 991 to 995. These letters are to Bishop Luitold of Augsburg , Queen Adelheid , the Bavarian Duke Heinrich and to a Count E. ( Count Eberhard V. von Egisheim ). From the letters it can be read that the monastery had considerable land holdings at that time. One year 60 acres of grain were destroyed by the winter cold. There was a horse, cattle, goat and swine herder. In the monastery there were two cooks, one of whom was responsible for wood and the other for vegetables, shoemakers, washers, and brewers. Others were busy repairing the buildings. Accordingly, there was a large household.

On the other hand, the letters also give a picture of the poor standard of living at that time. The monastery church had no windows so that in summer the birds flew through the church and in winter the snow was blown in. The candles also melted from the draft. Bishop Liutolf is asked for linen to cover the windows. He is also supposed to send iron so that the blacksmith can mend the farm implements. The letters complained about various other shortcomings and hardships, but also especially about the hostility which the surrounding residents showed towards the monastery and its inmates. Both the free and the serf showed a lack of respect. Worst of all, however, was the son of a certain Richard, who not only fished out the monks' only pond in secret or publicly, but also, when the inhabitants refused to help, fetched people from the Swabian region who had to graze the monastery meadows with their horses. Sometimes there was a need, like when the monastery had to contact Duke Heinrich of Bavaria because of the approaching Easter time, so that he could give him fish from his ponds west of Dinkelsbühl and near Crailsheim . With all this, the scientific work in the monastery did not run out. The scholastic (headmaster) Froumund taught young people who chose monastic life and pursued his scholarly studies himself.

Wigo , Froumund and their confreres should have finished their commission in 1002 and returned to their home monastery, where they died. Their names are listed closely together in the fraternity book of St. Peter in Salzburg , created in the year 1004.

The area around Feuchtwangen has been a "border area" since time immemorial, as the old Carolingian Gaue Sualafeld , Rangau and Maulachgau collide here on a stone at the nearby vineyard , which is still documented in the village regulations from 1433 and 1500. This is also the border point at which the three dioceses Augsburg , Eichstätt and Bamberg (until 1817: Würzburg ) meet: the Weinberger bell can be heard in three dioceses. Because of the location, access to the area by the Augsburg bishop was certainly interesting at the time. In 1197 at the latest, the monastery had been converted into a secular canon monastery, as a provost was named in a document for the first time this year . The Augustinian canons were not monks but regular - canons and lived in their own houses, but were doing together their choir prayers in the former monastery and its church.

The indebtedness rose to the max over the centuries, as can be seen from a letter from Bishop Burkhart of Augsburg of December 1374. The bishop ordered that separate administrators should be set up for the slopes of the monastery, who should collect the income, meet the expenses, pay off debts, and distribute the rest among the canons. On November 6, 1376, however, he entrusted the care of the monastery to Burgrave Friedrich V of Nuremberg for four years. This was supposed to bring order to the debt system, which came about through the sale of land. From this care, however, a screen bailiwick as because already in 1378 the monastery called the viscount nurses and Schirmer. Yes Friedrich VI. In 1407 he even took the oath of homage. So the monastery became increasingly dependent on the burgraves and the later margraves of Ansbach .

Regarding the internal circumstances of the monastery, the following should be noted:
There were eleven positions ( benefices ) for canons and one benefice for the provost , which the monastery - according to old tradition - selected from the Augsburg canons . The provost, who was at the head of the chapter , had nothing to say about the affairs of the monastery. In addition, his benefice income was so low that it was given to the monastery by the provost Beringer Hel and then by his successors for 44 guilders. The actual management of the monastery had the dean , who was assisted by the custodian, the overseer of the collegiate church and administrator of the income, as well as the scholastic , the overseer of the student canons, the rector and the students . A canon was the canon , who had to watch over the rights and freedoms of the monastery and to exercise jurisdiction over the subjects. Allegedly, this jurisdiction was given to the monastery by Otto IV in 1208. But the authenticity of the relevant document is in doubt. In the chapter house located in the monastery building, the canon minister had to judge insults, bodily harm (of a lighter kind, because the serious ones, especially those resulting in death, were subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial bailiff) and other disputes, half of which were with vogueable and half with Invalid backseat was occupied as lay judges. Furthermore, the bailiff had to travel and inspect the monastery property, for what purpose a horse and an armed servant were kept for him. The collegiate office was a separate office and was different from the bailiwick. It had two official peasants, who were elected annually from the unjustified subjects of the penitentiary, then four quarter masters who, in addition to the official peasants, had to admonish and demand the penitentiary subjects who could be controlled and controlled by the monastery as often as necessary. It had to provide its own number of drawing wagons, horses and soldiers. The disputes about liable goods were settled without the bailiff at the monastery. From time immemorial, everything was not traded in front of the bailiff or bailiff, but in front of the monastery and later in front of the administrator, including the divisions and cattle bills of the ungodly relatives. Canon and the three other dignitaries were elected by the chapter.

In addition to the benefices for the canons, the pen of old had vicarages for subordinate priests who had to oversee the choral service . According to a note dated January 2, 1500, there were 11 at that time. They were as follows.

1. Vicarie of the early mass at the high altar. She owned goods in Aichenzell in the second half of the 14th century . (Feuchtwanger copy book )
2. Vicarie of the h. Twelve messengers . On June 22nd, 1422 “becomes the h. altar dedicated to the twelve messengers ” given a Wismat zu Gütingen .
3. Vicarie of the h. Catherine .
4. Vicarie Our Lady , des h. Antony and Blaise . According to a document (in Munich) dated February 23, 1398, this vicarie and a new altar, located in the cathedral on the pillar to the right hand, include "half a court ride in Feuchtwangen.
5th vicarie of the three kings .
6th vicarie the h. Nicholas and Leonard . She had to a document dated 26 September 1371 (in Munich ) is a well in Zumhaus , and one in Dorfgütingen .
7. Vikarie of h. Martinus .
8. Vikarie of h. Emperor Charles . She was on November 16, 1334 by Rabeno, Truchseß zu Wilburgstetten , custodian of Feuchtwang, donated and gifted with slopes from Feuchtwangen , Aichenzell , Herrnschallbach , Zehdorf , Bernau , Oberahorn , Freimannsberg (a lost place near Feuchtwangen) and Breitenthann , which he had recently given had bought his own means from knight Heinrich von Dürrwangen .
9. Vicarie of St. Elisabeth . Kunrat Kon is vicar of this altar in 1429.
10. Vicariate of the Holy Cross . Is mentioned in a document in 1457.
11. Vicarie of St. Apostle Paulus u . Peter on de m Gottesacker (between the churches) in the St. Peterskapelle (now the so-called Box), in capella St. Petri super ossa murtuorum, also called Vicarie in Kernter (carnarium, ossuary, storage place of the dead bones ). This vicariate is also donated by Rabeno, Truchseß zu Wilburgstetten , who gifted it around 1333 with half a tithing at Banzenweiler and half a tithing at Kaltenbronn, including goods at Heilbronn . Walther von Stein, provost of Feuchtwangen, to whose provost these tithes and goods were given fiefdom, guaranteed the fief by a deed dated December 2, 1333. Rabeno made when he already Domprobst in Eichstatt , was still an endowment with a Zehentteil in Kienhart , goods in Schalbach and a meadow in Esbach , everything fief of the provost that the Probst Walther von Bopfingen on 6 November 1359 (Urk. In Munich ) the Vicarie owned.

The Vicarie of St. Ulrichs , St. Michaels, mentioned in 1402 and St. Sebastian and St. Sigmund, mentioned in 1464 , who were then called the "new vicarie", have left. (Feuchtw. Kop. Buch in Nuremberg).

Marien Altar in the choir of the collegiate church, back: the canons with the provost

According to ancient tradition, the canons wore a white, pleated garment, over which a gray cloak, which was decorated with 17 tassels at the bottom, and fur hats made by the canons of fine furs, while the vicars were only allowed caps made of sheepskins or lambskins . The names of seventeen provosts are known.

1. Hainrich von Fiuchtwang is a documentary witness from 1197.
2. Lupoldus, provost in Fuchtewank, canon of Würzburg , 1256 witness for the Auhausen monastery an der Wernitz .
3. Rudolf von Hürnheim , witness 1274 and 1277, was still provost between 1309 and 1318.
4. Kunrat, Count of Oettingen , named 1318 and 1323.
5. In 1333 Walther vom Stein gives fiefdoms around Feuchtwangen to the newly founded Vicarie St. Peter and Paul over the dead bones (the Carinthian).
6. Walther von Bopfingen , named canon of Feuchtwangen in 1332 and 1334, is provost in 1359 and also donated to the named vicariate in that year.
7. Kunrad Rüß 1360 to 1376
8. Otto von Suntheim 1376 to 1385
9. Beringer Hel 1425 to 1435
10. Johannes Kautsch 1435.
11. Friederich Pflanz swears on March 9, 1439.

While the monastery chapter has previously chosen its provosts from the Augsburg canons, on February 5, 1446 , Pope Eugene IV granted Margrave Albrecht Achilles and his heirs the right to propose the probes of Ansbach and Feuchtwangen along with two canons at each of these churches.

12. Leonhard Gessel swears by 1447 and dies in 1465.
13. Karl von Seckendorf , proposed by the Margrave of Brandenburg to the Bishop of Augsburg, swears in 1466 the statutes of the monastery.
14. Johannes Horn 1472 to 1483.
15. Georg von Schauenberg 1483 to 1487.
16. Georg von Kindsberg, Canon of Regensburg , lived in Rome as a trusted friend and constant table companion of the notorious Pope Alexander VI. 1487 to 1494.
17. Johannes Knorz, Canon of Herrieden , signed up in 1494 and probably died in 1540 as the last Catholic provost.

Marien Altar in the choir of the collegiate church

The Gothic choir was added in the 15th century, and it still extends far into the market square. It was equipped with new choir stalls and , according to the monastery calculations, the new main altar for this extension comes from Michael Wolgemut's workshop . The master personally set it up in the church on Brigitta's day (October 7th) 1483. He was so favored by the canons that a clear tip was placed at the agreed price (the monastery invoice reads : 2 flor (enos, gulden) propinaverunt domini ultra conventum percium pictori de Nurenberga in the brigide, qui locavit tabulam novam ad chorum, que constetit 1 C et flor ). The altar is no longer original, but what has been preserved shows the greatness of the work. In the shrine of the altar stands the Virgin Mary with her feet on the crescent moon with an extremely lovely expression, a scepter in her right hand and the baby Jesus on her left arm, who stretches out his hand towards the community in a blessing. The closed altar wings represent the Annunciation, painted exactly from a copper engraving by Martin Schongauer, whose engravings were often used as models by painters. The wings are still closed today during the Passion and Advent season. When the doors are open, the meeting of Mary with Elisabeth is shown at the top left, below the Adoration of the Wise Men from the Orient, at the top right the birth of Jesus, below the death of Mary, at which, according to legend, all the apostles were gathered. Since there was not enough space for all of them on the board, only their nimbs are sometimes shown, between which a face with a swollen cheek appears. It is an apostle blowing the censer. With the predella doors closed, the four evangelists are shown in the form of the four great doctors of the church, Gregory, Hieronymus, Ambrosius and Augustine. On the inside there is St. Johannis with the chalice from which a black snake jumps, and St. Andrew with the cross. The German double-headed eagle and Charlemagne's coat of arms are painted on both sides of the predella. On the back a protective mantle Madonna is painted as a journeyman's work, who takes the canons in their habit and the black-clad provost under their mantle spread by two angels into their care. The half-round carved image of Mary on the altar, above which two angels hold a crown, may have been made by the painter Ulrich, who was also a picture carver and worked in Wohlgemuth's workshop, at least it can be classified as a Nuremberg work. In contrast to the Schwabacher Altar , the Abbey Church altar is executed in the wings in pure pictures. The only part of the church's side altars was the statue of Charlemagne , now attached to the north aisle wall.

The pen was wealthy with relics and was so fortunate to have supposedly a nail from the cross of Jesus. Every year on Ascension Day a reliquary festival was celebrated, where it was shown in its golden capsule with the other relics, including a thorn from Christ's crown of thorns and a piece from the belt of the Virgin Mary, to the people lying on their knees, and indulgences were given before Pope Innocent ordered the feast of the spear and nails in 1353. Originally the place of storage was the reliquary in the monastery, still recognizable today above the stairs from the market square down to the cloister. The healings were originally shown from there on a gallery to the people gathered in the church. Later the treasure grew so immensely that a separate building was built, it is located on the church square directly opposite the west portal of the collegiate church (Am Kirchplatz 1, now used by the Diakonisches Werk / Inner Mission). The nail of the cross was so important that it shows in the seal of the pen.
The monastery grew in size over the centuries and soon it had several larger and smaller chapels in addition to the monastery, St. John's and St. Peter's Church. Near the city in front of the upper gate was the chapel of St. Jodokus or St. Jos and Nikolai apud leprosos , with the lepers. It stood where the Green Tree inn was and was consecrated in 1464 by the Augsburg suffragan and indulged by Pope Pius II (1464 - 1471).
Furthermore, the chapel of the hospital foundation (Heilig Geist chapel), the St. Michaels chapel on the mountain (Königshöhe), the St. Peter and Paul chapel on the Spitzenberg. Furthermore, 28 buildings in the city, which were inhabited by canons, vicarians and other people belonging to the monastery association, belonged to the monastery, 16 citizens of the town were with their families and relatives under its property tax and jurisdiction. The monastery had fiefdoms in almost all the surrounding towns.

In 1241 Feuchtwangen was already an imperial city (imperial tax article: 64th Item de Fuhtwangen XX mr). From then on, Feuchtwangen consisted of two communities: the royal imperial city south of the Untere Torstrasse and Postgasse line and the monastery north of it, with the Postgasse / Museumsstrasse-Spitzenberg / Spitalstrasse district still being assigned to the monastery. The “pure” imperial city took up just over a third of the area enclosed by the city wall. The monastery, as the successor to the imperial monastery, had significant rights in the city, which resulted in constant disputes, as the city tried to free itself completely from the influence of the monastery. The monastery was dissolved in 1540 Protestant and 1563 in the course of the introduction of the Reformation and its possessions fell to the Margrave of Ansbach . After the abolition, the collegiate church stood empty and was unused. Due to the notorious lack of space in the parish church, the Margrave of Ansbach personally decreed (still on site in Feuchtwangen during a visual inspection) to hand over the vacant "large church" to the community, making it the ev. Lutheran main church. The monastery buildings came partly in communal and partly in private ownership.

During the time of the monastery, the church was rebuilt and repaired several times, for example the capitals of the Romanesque period in the main nave were lost, and a wooden barrel was used in the main nave, which later had to give way to the preserved coffered ceiling. In 1526 the south tower collapsed with a great crash and the north tower partially slipped in the front walls on the west side. The canons used considerable resources to restore the west side. The simple, flat-roofed, three-aisled, Swabian basilica was robbed of its original appearance by the total renovations in the years 1913–1920. The renovation was necessary, among other things, because the south tower had moved 30 cm out of the perpendicular and tilted alarmingly to the west. In the interior of the church it was then possible, for example, for the Romanesque version to be used over the Gothic version in the galleries. Only parts of the north tower and parts of Paradise have been preserved in the original Romanesque style; the Gothic choir is also original. The rest of the church, such as the south tower, was built in concrete / brickwork and faced with the old stones or the old stones were installed in a new arrangement. In 1913/14, the south tower was given a so-called Strauss grid to stabilize it, inserted in 80 holes drilled seven meters deep and filled with cement as a foundation (the place is not named Feuchtwangen for nothing). The door of the south tower was then moved from the west to the south, the complete tower apartment with the pull-up trains to the bells was also reinstalled, although at that time no tower guard was living on the tower anymore (the tower apartment is going to be renovated in the year 1561 back). In 1922 the tower guard was abolished. Before the renovation, the bells from 1320 and 1672 were used on the south tower to look up (first on the bell from 1672 attached to the outside on the east side, then again on the evangelist bell from 1320 hanging inside the tower), at that time only the third could be rung Bell in the tower from 1417. The south tower (crown tower) has a height of 37.94 m, the north tower (thick tower) is 29.18 m high. The Romanesque north tower has an inner dimension at the base of 3.10 m × 3.30 m with a wall thickness of 1.50 m and 22 m high up to the eaves.

In Feuchtwangen the original parish 'St. Johannis', which was endowed with considerable assets, but which could be drawn into the assets of the monastery by the canons and which also fell to the Margrave of Ansbach when the monastery was dissolved. This patronage is the successor to the older, defunct St. Michaels Chapel on the Königshöhe / Michelsberg. In the 'Mooswiesen-Messe' (the local folk festival) at the end of September, the parish dedication of this probably first Feuchtwang church is still celebrated. On March 22, 1624 it is mentioned in passing on the occasion of a death, it was the Patrociniumsfest (church consecration) of St. Michael on the mountain. Next to the former collegiate church is the parish church of St. Johannis on the church square, in it is the Gothic font and the chairs for the church councils, this is older than that of the collegiate church. The table in front of the Franconian Museum, which was used to pay out the money at the Schranne, is most likely the Romanesque font from the Johanniskirche. Both churches together form the city's well-known "four towers" motif.

In the parish there was a third church service building, the Peter and Paul chapel , now called the "Kasten", on the north side of the St. John's Church , which was provided by Rabeno Truchseß von Wilburgstetten in 1333 with a vicarage . The stone stairs that still existed led to her. Below her was the Karner (carnarium, ossuary). On the occasion of a dispute that the canon and pastor Wolfgang Goldochs had with a vicar because of the reduction in income from Carinthia, we learn the following: In Carinthia, whose now walled entrance was opposite the current third parsonage, "the poor parishioners' dead bones" lay . In it was an altar dedicated to St. Vitus and St. Anna , which belonged to the parish church. On the day of St. Vitus sitting Pfleger the parish before the Karner and took the victim is a front of the image. Of the money that was sacrificed in the stick and in front of the picture, the pastor owned the third pfennig, the other went to the fabrica, the church foundation. Above the charnel house was an altar by Peter and Paul. This Borkirche belonged to the monastery. On Good Friday, when “the altars are bared”, the collegiate monastery took the slopes and made sacrifices from the grain that was donated in front of the altar.

The parts of the parish church of St. Johannis are older than the traditional Romanesque remains of the collegiate church. This church was incorporated the so-called Michael Foster care, which was transferred to the cemetery church , which was newly built in 1533. It goes back to the former St. Michael's chapel on the mountain , located on the Michelsberg (now Könighöhe) . The Mooswiese still commemorates the patronage of this chapel, which is regarded as the first Feuchtwang church.

meaning

The Radenzgau joins the Nordgau in the south with the Regnitz , the Franconian Schwabach and the Pegnitz . The Franconian Schwabach is also the border to the Suala field. An old path leads from Feuchtwangen over the Schleifenberg and further over St. Ulrich , Metzlesberg , the Obere Lottermühle , Schwaighausen , Langfurth and Ammelbruch to the Limestor near Dühren . Part of this old path coincides with the border of the former Graisbach district court against the county of Oettingen, which, according to the border descriptions of 1315, 1419 and 1594, extends to the west gable of the Feuchtwanger collegiate church as a fixed point. This path separates the Franconian districts of Sualafeld and Riesgau , from which the counties Graisbach and Oettingen emerged , and must therefore be pre-Franconian.

organ

View of the organ with case from 1706

The organ was built in 1982 by GF Steinmeyer & Co. in an existing organ case from 1706. The slider chests -instrument has 30 registers on two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical. General cleaning and re-intoning took place in 2009 by the Lutz company.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Drone 16 ′
02. Prefix 08th'
03. Reed flute 08th'
04th Dulz flute 08th'
05. octave 04 ′
06th recorder 04 ′
07th octave 02 ′
08th. Mixture IV-V 00 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
09. Cornet I – V 08th'
10. Trumpet 08th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – g 3
11. Covered 08th'
12. Viol 08th'
13. Principal 04 ′
14th Transverse flute 04 ′
15th Sesquialtera II 0 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Pointed flute 02 ′
17th Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Scharff IV 01 ⁄ 2 ′
19th Dulcian 16 ′
20th oboe 08th'
21st shawm 04 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Double bass 16 ′
23. Sub-bass 16 ′
24. octave 08th'
25th Capstan whistle 08th'
26th octave 04 ′
27. Piccolo 02 ′
28. Rauschwerk IV 0
29 trombone 16 ′
30th Trumpet 08th'

Bells

In the two towers hang a total of nine bells, the z. Some of them are historically very valuable. The oldest bell is the Charles Bell in the north tower, which was cast in the early 13th century and bears the name of the monastery founder, Charlemagne. In 2006 two bells were hung in the clock tower to strike the full hours and the quarter of an hour.

No.
 		 Surname
 		 Casting year
 		 Caster
 		 Mass
(kg)		 Ø
(mm)		 Nominal
 		 tower
 
1 Christ bell 1996 Bachert, Heilbronn 1,847 d 1 South tower
2 Evening bell 1417 Seifridus (II), Nuremberg 400 1,300 f sharp 1 South tower
3 Marienbell 1420 850 1,080 a 1 South tower
4th Noon and the Lord's Prayer bell 1977 Bachert brothers, Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf 456 h 1 South tower
5 Canons Bell 1443 Mag. Conradus Gnoczhamer (I), Nuremberg 270 750 d 2 South tower
6th Stifts christening bell 1996 Bachert Heilbronn 168 e 2 South tower
7th Charles Bell 1250 175 635 f sharp 2 North tower
8th Margrave Bell 1672 Stefan Bruncler and Johannes Arnoldt 60 450 a 2 North tower
9 Canon bell 1420 50 d 3 North tower
Hour bell 2006 134 g 2 clock tower
Quarter-hour bell 2006 41 d 3 clock tower

The chimes of the collegiate church provide for a full chime with all nine bells for only three days in the annual cycle.

literature

  • Hans Karlmann Ramisch: District Feuchtwangen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 21 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964, DNB  453909426 , p. 36-47 .
  • Kurt von Ingersleben: Feuchtwangen and his district Herold Neue Verlags GmbH, Munich; 1971 published by the Frankenhöhe-Wörnitzgrund area committee in the Bay. Tourist Association.
  • History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen monastery, Wilhelm Schaudig 1927, Verlag Sommer and Schorr Feuchtwangen
  • Feuchtwanger Häuserbuch, Willi Hörber 1992, Druckerei Sommer Feuchtwangen
  • Feuchtwanger Heimatgeschichte Volume 1, Fritz Wünschmeyer, Stefan Mühling and Dietrich Weiß The Feuchtwanger letters of the monk Froumund from the 10th century. A collection of manuscripts from the Salvatorkloster Feuchtwangen from Part 1 of the "Tegernsee Letter Collection" with facsimile printing. The history of the Benedictine monastery Feuchtwangen, as well as the development of the town of Feuchtwangen in its beginnings, print edition, Feuchtwangen 1988
  • Dr. Klaus Leder, Dean i. R. I hear a bell ringing ... 252 pages, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022849-0

Web links

Commons : Stiftskirche Feuchtwangen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Schaudig, Councilor and Dean i. R. History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen monastery, Feuchtwangen 1927, section 1. Name and origin of Feuchtwangen
  2. ↑ http://www.geschichte-feuchtwangen.de/Band1/Band1013.htm The Feuchtwang monastery in the tradition
  3. ↑ http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/repOpus_01346.html Synod in Aachen 818/19, Bavarian Academy of Sciences 2019-10-07
  4. ^ Wilhelm Funk Feuchtwangen - Becoming and growing a Franconian city 1954, sections The Franconian royal court Feuchtwangen and The Franconian streets
  5. ^ Kurt von Ingersleben: Feuchtwangen and his district Herold Neue Verlags GmbH, Munich; 1971 published by the Frankenhöhe-Wörnitzgrund area committee in the Bay. Tourist Association, page 12
  6. ^ Anton Steichele, Cathedral Capitular in Augsburg The Diocese of Augsburg , III. B. Schmid'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (A. Manz), Augsburg 1865, pages 341 to 349
  7. ^ Wilhelm Funk Feuchtwangen - Becoming and growing a Franconian town Feuchtwangen , 1954, section The west-east road Crailsheim - Herrieden, or Ansbach
  8. ^ Wilhelm Schaudig, Councilor and Dean i. R. History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen monastery, Feuchtwangen 1927, section 2. Fiuchtingwang monastery
  9. ^ Wilhelm Schaudig, History of the City and the former Feuchtwangen Monastery, Feuchtwangen 1927: Section 3. The Collegiate Foundation
  10. ^ History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen monastery, Wilhelm Schaudig 1927, Verlag Sommer and Schorr Feuchtwangen, section 6. The churches
  11. ↑ History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen Abbey, Dr. Christoph Friedrich Jacobi, Nuremberg Verlag Riegel and Wießner 1833: III. Section conversion of the monastery into a monastery and history of the same up to the protective bailiff of the burgrave of Nuremberg.
  12. ↑ http://www.koeblergerhard.de/Fontes/Reichssteuermatrikel1241.htm
  13. ^ History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen monastery, Wilhelm Schaudig 1927, Verlag Sommer and Schorr Feuchtwangen, section 5. The parish up to the Reformation
  14. ^ Wilhelm Schaudig, History of the city and the former Feuchtwangen Monastery, Feuchtwangen 1927: page 258
  15. ↑ http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel_45953
  16. ↑ http://www.geschichte-feuchtwangen.de/Funk/Funk041.htm
  17. ^ Feuchtwangen, Germany (Bavaria) - collegiate church. In: Organ Databank Netherlands. Retrieved September 1, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Information about the bells
  19. ↑ The chimes of the collegiate church and full chimes of the collegiate church on Easter Sunday 2015

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 51 ″  E