Margrave Church Treuchtlingen
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The Margrave Church in Treuchtlingen , a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia , is an Evangelical-Lutheran church in the margrave style .
construction
On the church square in Treuchtlingen, there was an early mass chapel "Beatae Mariae Virginis" (Blessed Virgin Mary) in the place of today's margrave church. It may have come from the 13th century, was first mentioned in 1457 and was used for Protestant services after the Reformation . After the Thirty Years' War , which completely devastated Treuchtlingen, the chapel was restored as a Protestant church in 1663 under the rule of the Margraves of Ansbach-Brandenburg and in 1701 it was equipped with an organ . As the number of Protestant residents of Treuchtlingen increased, the chapel increasingly turned out to be too small. An appraisal by the Brandenburg government councilor Strobel advocated a new building in 1745, for which the sovereign Margrave Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach finally gave the order. In 1756 the previous chapel was demolished and a new church was built in the so-called margrave style in 1756/57. The construction was carried out by the Brandenburg-Ansbach court architect Johann David Steingruber (* 1702; † 1787). According to tradition, the inauguration scheduled for August 7, 1757 only took place on August 28 because of the death of the margrave († August 2, 1757).
In 1893–1895 the church was expanded by five meters to the west. Since then it has been around 17 meters long, 11 meters wide and 15 meters high up to the roof ridge. The side walls of the nave are divided symmetrically by four pilaster strips , the intermediate fields have large square windows in the upper area and small, arched windows in the lower area. The west wall as the entrance side has three oval windows between two wide side pilasters below the roof, including three larger square ones and a flat arched window on both sides of the portal. The front door is reset. The tower in the east of the church, structured with pilaster strips and arches, is square on the two lower floors and octagonal on the upper floor and is around 35 meters high. It is closed by a hood with a stepped tip. In 1992 four new bronze bells came into the belfry. The sacristy is built to the north of the tower.
A renovation in the years 1998 to 2002 brought the outside color of light brick red.
Furnishing
Since the extension in 1893/95, the church has had two galleries , only the lower one running along the side walls of the nave. According to Steingruber's concept, the altar, pulpit and organ are arranged one above the other on the choir wall. Today's organ dates from 1949, built by GF Steinmeyer in Oettingen as Opus 1776; the organ console has been set up on the north side gallery since 1957. A margrave's coat of arms held by putti hangs above the organ . The pulpit is flanked by two images of the apostles from the time the church was built. Instead of an altarpiece, a cross is attached. A candlestick chandelier hangs above the baptismal font in the middle of the church. On the north wall, above the side gallery, two portrait paintings show Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon ; on the south wall above the gallery is a painting of the mockery of Christ .
literature
- God's word in Treuchtlingen. (= Festschrift for the 200th anniversary of the Markgrafenkirche Treuchtlingen). Treuchtlingen 1957
- Treuchtlingen . In: Evang.-Luth. Pappenheim church district . Pappenheim 1966, pp. 41-43
- Margrave Church Treuchtlingen. 250 years in the heart of the city . Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2007
- Johann Schrenk and Karl F. Zink: God's Houses. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . Treuchtlingen: wek-Verlag, 2008, p. 220f.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 16.9 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 42.8 ″ E