Rectory (Pleinfeld)

Rectory in Pleinfeld

The rectory is a building in Pleinfeld , a market town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It was built in the 16th century and changed in Baroque style in the 18th century. The building with the address Pfarrgasse 2 is not far from the Pleinfeld market square and is registered as a monument in the Bavarian list of monuments under monument number D-5-77-161-36 .

The two-storey saddle roof building in a corner position with a front staircase is a late Gothic gable structure and has four to four window axes . It was originally built as a box house for the Eichstätter cathedral chapter and was appointed a parsonage around 1806.

There is a sandstone coat of arms from the 15th century and a cast-iron coat of arms from Obereichstätt from 1777 on the outer walls .

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 , p. 495 .

^ Rectory, originally built as a box house for the Eichstätter cathedral chapter , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on November 2, 2018)
^ Franz Xaver Buchner : The Diocese of Eichstätt, historical-statistical description, based on the literature, the registry of the Episcopal Ordinariate Eichstätt and the parish reports , Vol .: 2, Eichstätt, (1938), p. 395.
^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Francs. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia . Edited by Tilmann Breuer et al., Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1979, p. 677.