Marienmünster (Königshofen an der Heide)

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Marienmünster, west side
Interior view, central nave and choir
West gallery

The Marienmünster is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after Maria in Königshofen an der Heide ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

The Marienmünster was originally a branch of St. Walburga and Nikolaus in Beyerberg . In the second half of the 14th century it was raised to an independent parish. The St. Katharina (Bechhofen) and St. Georg (Sachsbach) branches belonged to the parish . The patrons were initially the lords of Pappenheim , then the lords of Seckendorff , and from 1620 to 1803 the Eichstätt monastery . Until the Reformation, which found its way into Königshofen in 1565, the Marienmünster was a pilgrimage church .

In 1902 the parish of Bechhofen was raised to a parish and St. Georg in Sachsbach was declared a branch of Bechhofen. Today's parish of Königshofen includes the villages of Arberg , Birkach , Oberkönigshofen , Rohrbach , Röttenbach , Waizendorf and Weihermühle .

Church building

Building history

The existing church was built from sandstone blocks in the late Gothic style in the second half of the 14th century . It originally had two towers and a choir with a 7/10 end in the east and a three-aisled relay hall in the west. The south aisle was doubled in 1517. In 1632 the church was badly damaged by fire and was only poorly restored in 1658. All construction work was not completed until 1723. The church was structurally converted into a basilica . On June 1, 1788, the north tower was badly damaged by a lightning strike and therefore had to be demolished at the height of the church roof in 1810, and then completely in 1868. A sacristy was built in its place. In 1956/57 the Marienmünster was extensively restored.

Building description

The choir with the 7/10 ending has a hipped roof. It is divided into segments by eight buttresses, most of which have a tracery window . The nave has a lantern roof . The south aisle towards the tower has three hipped dormers . On the north and south sides, the nave has five axes of ogival tracery windows. On the north side these are two-part, between the second and third window there is a pointed arched step portal . On the south side these are three or four parts and the middle window has been replaced by a pointed arch portal. In the upper aisle , the central nave has four-pass windows on the north and south sides . On the west side there is a small extension with a monopitch roof for the arched step portal, on the left and right of it a buttress that separates the central nave from the aisles. Above this is a three-part, ogival tracery window. In the gable there are two smaller, two-part, pointed arched tracery windows, above a window in a quadrangle shape. To the right of the portal is a small round tower that is used as a staircase to the west gallery. The south tower has a square floor plan and is five storeys high. The individual floors are structured by cornices. On the fourth floor it has two-part, ogival tracery sound openings. The fifth floor is octagonal and has two-part, ogival sound openings on all sides. The tower ends with an eight-sided pointed helmet.

The sandstone blocks can also be seen inside the church, the plastering was removed in 1875. The hall and choir vaults can no longer be seen due to the insertion of flat wooden ceilings. Pointed arcades on the north and south sides delimit the central nave from the aisles. There has been a west gallery since 1870/80, which rests on pointed arch arcades. The central nave is connected to the choir by a pointed arch arcade.

literature

  • August Gebeßler : City and district of Dinkelsbühl (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 15 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1962, DNB  451450930 , p. 159-163 .
  • 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. 111-114 .
  • Gottfried Stieber: Königshofen . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 528-531 ( digitized version ).
  • Michael Weber: The almost bald knight: Stories about the Marienmünster Königshofen an der Heide . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-7102-0 .

Web links

Commons : Marienmünster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Gebeßler, p. 159.
  2. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 112.
  3. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 85.

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 42.9 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 18.4 ″  E