Rugendorf parish church

Castle and church in Rugendorf

The Rugendorf parish church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Rugendorf in Upper Franconia .

The church is dedicated to Saints Erhard and Jakob . It was built as a chapel around 1350 . The original building was later extended to include a nave . The patron saint Jörg von Waldenfels , who also built the adjoining castle , introduced the Reformation in 1552 and the church has been Protestant ever since.

organ

Rococo prospectus

Game table (detail)

The organ work was built in 1906 by the organ building institute of Johannes Strebel , Nuremberg. With the addition of the rear case, it was placed in the Rococo prospect of the Georg Ernst Wiegleb predecessor organ from 1759. The organ has 13 labial parts , distributed over 2 manuals and pedal, with a tube-pneumatic action. Your gaming table is free.

Restored in 2006 by Orgelbau Zeilhuber , Sonthofen.

Disposition:

I main work  C – f 3 Bourdon 16 ′ Principal 8th' Viola di gamba 8th' Tibia 8th' octave 4 ′ flute 4 ′ mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′

II subsidiary work  C – f 3 Violin principal 8th' Salicional 8th' Lovely covered 8th' Fugara 4 ′

Pedal  C – d 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Violon bass 16 ′

• Pairing :
  • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Super octave coupling: I.

literature

• Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Stadtsteinach district . In: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , Kurzinventare, XX. Band . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1964, pp. 76–79.
• Helmuth Meißner: The church of Rugendorf . Special print from: Geschichte am Obermain . Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense . Volume 13, yearbook 1981/82.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Fischer, Theodor Wohnhaas: Historical organs in Upper Franconia . Munich / Zurich 1985, p. 218 .

Web links

Commons : Parish Church (Rugendorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 44 ″  E