St. Jodokus Church (Unterwurmbach)
The Protestant branch church of St. Jodokus is a Gothic building in the Gunzenhausen district of Unterwurmbach in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .
location
The church stands at the western end of the village, parallel to the main street.
Parish and building history
The church was built in the 15th century , perhaps in connection with an infirmary . There may have been a previous building, because in the place of today's Unterwurmbach there was a Franconian- Carolingian settlement with farms belonging to the royal monastery of Gunzenhausen and from 823 of the monastery Ellwangen to secure the right side of the Altmühlübergang . The village was in the 12./13. Century ruled by a lower nobility who stood in the service of the noble von Truhendingen and had a castle seat in Unterwurmbach on Ellwangischem church property. After the Truhendinger died out, the Ellwangen Monastery again had the knight's fief . When the first verifiable church was built - around 1520 it is mentioned as the St. Jodokus Chapel - you can find the wealthy Hans Bunikheim, son of a Gunzenhausen citizen of knightly origin, in possession of the Unterwurmbach knight's fief. In 1459 he handed it over to his son-in-law Hermann Kautsch and in 1476 it was inherited by Engelhard von Muhr . Since the pastor of Unterwurmbach was always a clergyman of the town church Gunzenhausen, as is reported in 1580, the Reformation came into effect here in the first half of the 16th century and the church became Protestant. As a result, by the 19th century at the latest, fixed seating, the west and pulpit opposite, the north gallery and the font (the church has two) became essential elements of the church.
The place suffered badly from the Thirty Years War ; In 1632 Unterwurmbach was sacked by the Swedes. The then pastor Dürr therefore asked for his release, and his successor, Pastor Ernst Hornung, wanted to leave the impoverished and indebted community again in 1635. In 1669 the Ellwangen Monastery sold the village for 200 guilders to the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach , who were now responsible for the church. In 1678 the badly damaged church was completely repaired; the nave was rebuilt, but still shows the remains of the old church.
In the 18th century the sacred building had to be repaired several times; In 1785 it was given a ridge turret , and in 1787 two windows were broken in to improve the lighting. In 1862 the roof turret was demolished because it was dilapidated and in 1871 it was replaced by a church tower on the west side, which also houses the staircase. It is square and plastered to just below the roof ridge of the nave, while the corners of the unplastered upper floor are flattened.
Unterwurmbach has always been part of the Gunzenhausen parish. It was not until the Bavarian era, in 1815, that Oberwurmbach and Unterwurmbach became an independent parish. This was dissolved again in 1827, so that Unterwurmbach is now supplied by the Gunzenhausen II parish.
Building description
The church with its Gothic choir faces west-east. It is entered on the south side through a pointed arch portal with a profiled reveal. The flat-roofed nave has three window axes; The "interesting" late Gothic wooden barrel construction has been preserved under the roof. The two-part pointed arch windows show a tracery of passports and noses, but not the original on the north side. The choir arch with a profiled soffit is pointed. The retracted, single-yoke choir with a ribbed vault has a polygonal end; the ribs end on supported three-quarter columns or on the side walls of the choir bay on head consoles.
The sacristy on the north side of the choir has a ribbed vault .
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic interior of the church dates from 1848. The altar in the choir is modeled on that of the Gunzenhausen town church. The neo-Gothic altarpiece shows the resurrection of Christ, two flat sculptures depict Peter and John. The latter was created in 1904 by the Nuremberg sculptor Jan Stöttner , who also designed the pulpit with the four evangelist symbols. The organ on the west gallery came into the church after the Second World War.
On the roof of the nave there is a "pretty" baroque wrought iron wind vane in the east.
literature
- The Gunzenhausen infirmary and the parish church of Unterwurmbach. In: Gunzenhauser Heimatbote , Vol. III, p. 29
- Clauss: Building blocks for the history of Wurmbach. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen 12 (1935), pp. 15-35.
- Unterwurmbach. In: Karl Gröber and Felix Mader (arr.): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. VI Gunzenhausen District Office; Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1937, p. 282f.
- Unterwurmbach. In: home book of the city of Gunzenhausen; Gunzenhausen: City of Gunzenhausen 1982, pp. 267-272.
- Martin Winter: Wurmbach in the early Middle Ages. In: Alt-Gunzenhausen 45 (1989), pp. 4-24.
- Unterwurmbach. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Edited by Tilmann Breuer and others; 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999, p. 1055.
- Johann Schrenk and Karl Friedrich Zink: God's Houses. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen; Treuchtlingen / Berlin: wek-Verlag 2008, p. 230f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio, p. 1055
- ↑ Winter, pp. 5f., 12-14; Heimatbuch, p. 268
- ↑ Heimatbuch, p. 268
- ↑ Heimatbuch, p. 270
- ↑ Winter, pp. 21-23; Heimatbuch, p. 270
- ↑ a b Heimatbuch, p. 271
- ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 282; Heimatbuch, p. 271; Schrenk / Zink, p. 230
- ↑ Winter, p. 14
- ↑ Heimatbuch, pp. 270f.
- ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 282
- ↑ a b Gröber / Mader, p. 283
- ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 282; Dehio, p. 1055
- ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 231
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 23 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 38" E