Paramentics (Neuendettelsau)
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The Paramentik is a listed building in Neuendettelsau . It is house number 14 on Wilhelm-Löhe-Straße.
History
Initially, the Neuendettelsau deaconesses took part in the Sunday service of the Nikolaikirche and held the devotions in the prayer room of the mother house . In a very short time there were so many deaconesses that an expansion of the Nikolaikirche had to be considered, which was rejected by the population, who would have had to do manual and tensioning services . So a new prayer room was built, for which the foundation stone was laid on August 20, 1858. On December 25, 1859, the first Christmas devotion could be celebrated in the house, which had 250 seats. On May 5, 1860, permission was finally given by the church regiment to also be allowed to celebrate main worship services. In the same year the prayer room was completely finished. The costs amounted to 10,544 florins.
As the number of deaconesses and residents continued to grow, the prayer room became too small, so that an expansion had to be considered. The Nuremberg builder Georg Eberlein was commissioned for this in 1881 . The design could not be implemented due to the limited space available. Instead of the extension, a new asylum church was built in 1887 on an undeveloped property. In the same year the prayer house was given a steeper roof with a loft, and the bell tower was removed. It has since been used as a nursing home for pensioners. At the same time a pharmacy and a fabric and bookshop were housed. In 1917 the parament workshop finally relocated there from the parent company.
Building description
The Paramentik is originally a one-storey, since 1887 two-storey gable roof building with dormers on the north and south sides made of sandstone blocks, which is largely plastered. It contains neo-Gothic style elements. On the south and north sides there are ground floor side aisles with a flatter roof. In the northwest there is a two-storey extension with a hipped roof. In the east there is a recessed 5/8 choir with plastered structure, corner pilasters and arched windows on all sides. On the west side there is an ogival, three-part tracery window, on the southern extension there is an arched portal. The windows are almost entirely rectangular, there is only one axis of pointed arch windows on the north and south sides near the choir extension.
When the vestments were still used as a prayer room, they had a single-nave hall with a flat wooden ceiling drawn in at the level of the first floor. Originally there were five axes of arched windows on the south and north sides. On the east side a flat staircase led to the choir, which was connected to the hall by a pointed arcade. Since 1869 there was a massive sandstone cafeteria altar, which was modeled on the altar of the Marburg Elisabeth Church. A seven-armed candlestick, which is now in the choir of the Laurentiuskirche, stood on it. In 1876 there was a redesign: A round window was broken into the south side of the choir and the wall surfaces were decorated with decorative paintings.
literature
- Johannes Deinzer: Wilhelm Löhe's life . tape 3 . C. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1892, p. 227-235 .
- Wilhelm Löhe : Something from the history of the Neuendettelsau Deaconess House . Gottfried Löhe, Nuremberg 1870, p. 66-85 .
- Marco Popp: St. Laurentius Neuendettelsau: the church of the Evangelical Lutheran Diakoniewerk . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-702-2 , p. 13-18 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 47 ′ 4 ″ E