Sankt Georg (Georgensgmünd)
The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Georg is located at Kirchenbuck 3 in Georgensgmünd . The Saint George is also the patron saint of the town. The octagonal church tower with its helmet made of green glazed bricks is the landmark of the place.
Church history
Before the Lutheran Reformation , masses were held regularly in Georgensgmünd . During the Thirty Years' War the place became depopulated. Only after 1640 did people gradually settle in Georgensgmünd again, namely pious Lutherans . The Margrave of Ansbach consistently promoted faith and education in his country . He had all churches , including St. George's Church, renovated and rebuilt according to a similar design with simple and clear rules . He commissioned his architect Johann David Steingruber for these tasks . He was also responsible for the elevation of the tower with a striking, octagonal end.
Building history
Parts of the tower have been preserved from the original small church from the Middle Ages . 1757/58 Johann David Stein Gruber designed the Romanesque predecessor to the Margrave style to the design largely on jewelry and ornaments waived.
Once the altar was in the church tower. Now a wall was built in front of the tower. In front of her is the pulpit altar , which was entered from the ambulatory. In addition there was a organ whose organ dates back to the 1760th Inside the nave , stairs led to the galleries in the west and north. The communion bench framed the altar. Behind it were the two doors that made the sacrifice possible. During the Lord's Supper service , people walked around the altar, and the sacrificial box next to the altar still gives evidence of this custom today. The patronage boxes built in to the left and right of the altar were separated by finely divided bars .
At the end of the 19th century the proposed parish line at the building department in Nuremberg an enlargement of the church at about 1,000 seats in 1899 for the growing community. The nave was extended to the south and two new staircases were extended to the west. New galleries were built inside, two in the south and another in the west. The organ was renewed and came on the second large gallery in the west. The church was consecrated again on May 10, 1908.
In the years 1968 to 1970 the church was given its current color scheme, which largely corresponds to the condition around 1758. A new organ was purchased and installed in the space above the pulpit in order to come as close as possible to Steingruber's plans from 1758. However, the organ was much too big for the room and its place did not prove itself acoustically , so that in 2004 the organ was placed again on the second gallery in the west.
In the mid-1930s, four colorful glass windows based on the designs by Adolf Schinnerer were installed. The bells , some of which were late medieval, were melted down during the Second World War . In 1951 the church received four new bells. The tapestry right of the altar was in 1985 by the Women's Group of the church decorated. The altar cross from 1908 found a new place in the west entrance of the church. The local sculptor Reinhart Fuchs created the ambo and the chandelier .
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 .
- Church leader St. George
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Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 16.2 " N , 11 ° 0 ′ 44.6" E