Petruskirche (Pleinfeld)

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Evangelical Church Pleinfeld

The Petruskirche is a Protestant church in Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The address of the hall church is Bürgermeister-Fichtner-Straße 1.

In the Hochstift Eichstätt , to which Pleinfeld belonged until the secularization of 1802, all church buildings were Catholic. Afterwards the Pleinfeld Protestants received a prayer room in the old bailiwick castle . The construction of the Petruskirche was financed by donations, the building site was donated by Markt Pleinfeld. Construction work lasted from 1883 to 1884. The church was consecrated on September 28, 1884 . The church building was designed by the architect Peter Schmidt in the neo-Gothic style. The west-facing church tower , in which the entrance area is located, is crowned by a pointed helmet . The building is structured by pilaster strips and wall templates . The tracery of the pointed arch windows was made of metal.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish of Pleinfeld
  2. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Church of St. Peter.
  3. ^ History of the Protestant parish of Pleinfeld
  4. ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 23.2 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 0.3 ″  E