St. Sixtus Church (Laubenzedel)

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The Protestant parish church of St. Sixtus is a sacred building in the Gunzenhausen district of Laubenzedel in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia .

South-west elevation
South-east view
North view with rectory
The choir in the east of the church
The pulpit on the left by the choir arch
The double gallery in the west of the church
The margrave's coat of arms on the upper gallery
Memorial plaque for Pastor Christoph Tietze called Titius

location

The church is in the northeast area of ​​the village.

Parish and building history

In 1287 a document says that the dean of Gunzenhausen also looks after Laubenzedel. Accordingly, the place was a branch of the original parish Gunzenhausen early on. A “parochia Labatzedel” (= parish Laubenzedel) is mentioned for the first time in a fief book of the Ellwangen monastery from 1364, so that it can be assumed that there was already a chapel or church in the village at that time. The current church was built in 1415, as evidenced by a sculptural stonemason's mark with date on the southern outer wall of the nave next to the original portal. The Reformation was introduced in 1532 and the church was subsequently adapted to the evangelical faith, in particular through the installation of galleries and the prominent position of the baptismal font in the middle under the choir arch . The pastoral care in Laubenzedel was now exercised by the Gunzenhausen early knife, then the hospital preacher with the official title of “deacon”. In 1565 it was elevated to an independent parish; the patronage right lay with the gentlemen von Lentersheim in Neuen- and Altenmuhr , who had gradually taken over their property in Laubenzedel from the 14th century after the von Muhr family had died out.

From 1632 to 1640 the parish was orphaned. After the Thirty Years' War , in which around two thirds of the village was destroyed, exiles from Upper Austria strengthened the community. From 1666 to 1671 Christoph Tietze, called Titius, was pastor in Laubenzedel; he distinguished himself as a poet of over 60 hymns and was the last pastor who was also the schoolmaster of Laubenzedel. In 1670 the von Lentersheim heiresses sold their goods in Laubenzedel to the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach , including parish justice. Soon afterwards, in 1678, the church received a new tower and in the course of a Baroque renovation in 1707-09 an altar by the Ansbach (and later Munich) court sculptor Giuseppe Volpini , of which only the cross remains today. In 1709 the stair tower in the west of the church was also built. In 1711 the damaged upper floor of the tower had to be rebuilt. The village received its own cemetery in 1714. In 1731 the organ builder Krapf from Ansbach delivered an organ.

In 1932 a sacristy was added as part of a renovation . Since 1961/62, when a new schoolhouse was built, the old schoolhouse has served as a Protestant parish hall and kindergarten. In 1984 a new organ came on the upper gallery, which the organ builder Steinmeyer from Oettingen had made.

The parish has been looked after by the parish office in Haundorf since the 1970s .

Building description

The building is oriented southwest-northeast. The "light-flooded" choir is in the east of the nave, the bell tower in the north. The retracted one-yoke choir behind a round choir arch has a closure closed in three eighths and a star rib vault, the ribs being covered with rich acanthus stucco from the Baroque period. The stucco ribs of the barrel vault of the nave are also covered in this way. The church interior has double galleries all around. The windows, three per side wall, have been round-arched since 1709 (previously pointed arch). The church tower is four-story and has a polygonal upper floor with a pointed helmet. The exterior of the church is not insignificantly shaped by the four-story stair tower with a "pretty" domed roof on the west side; the upper two floors are set back a little. The round arched church portal is on the south side of this turret.

Furnishing

  • The Volpini Altar (around 1709), simplified in 1841, shows a larger than life crucifix with two angels (by the Nuremberg church painter Franz Wiedl from 1932) and a chalice with a host , "filigree carvings".
  • There are "decorative choir stalls" on both sides of the altar.
  • The pulpit hanging on the left of the choir arch is the work of the Ansbach Volpini workshop (around 1709). The corpus and the entrance show the evangelists and Moses and Isaiah as relief figures, in between you can see pendants and angel heads. A trumpet angel stands on the sound cover with acanthus decoration.
  • The choir windows are decorated with stained glass by Helmut Münch from 1986/1987.
  • The wooden galleries supported by wooden pillars are fielded and run on three sides of the nave on two levels; to the west, the margravial Ansbach coat of arms can be seen on the upper parapet.

literature

  • Robert Maurer: The altar to Laubenzedel. In: Gunzenhäuser Heimatbote. VI, No. 42, 1942, pp. 159f.
  • Arborvitae. In: Karl Gröber, Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. VI Gunzenhausen district office. Oldenbourg, Munich 1937, pp. 211-215.
  • Karl Schauer: 550 years of the church - 400 years of the Evangelical-Lutheran parish of Laubenzedel 1565–1965. Garden leaf, 1965.
  • Otto Rohn: Laubenzedel. In: Home book of the city of Gunzenhausen. City of Gunzenhausen, Gunzenhausen 1982, pp. 253-257.
  • Arborvitae. 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 edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1999, p. 568.
  • Helmut Süss: Pastor Christoph Titius in Laubenzedel (1666–1671). In: Alt-Gunzenhausen. 55, 2000, pp. 43-58.
  • Katharina Wolff, Thorsten Wolff (responsible) (after Karl Schauer): St. Sixtus Church in Laubenzedel. The building and its history. Garden leaf 2004.
  • Johann Schrenk, Karl Friedrich Zink: God's houses. Church leader in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. wek, Treuchtlingen, Berlin 2008, pp. 123–125.

Web links

Commons : Sixtus I Church (garden leaf)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wolff (without Pag.)
  2. ↑ Süss, p. 43; Gröber / Mader, p. 212
  3. ↑ Rohn, pp. 254f.
  4. ↑ Wolff (without Pag.); exact source is given there
  5. ↑ Rohn, p. 256; Wolff (without Pag.)
  6. ↑ Rohn, p. 255
  7. ↑ Süss, pp. 52, 43
  8. ↑ Süss, p. 51
  9. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 213
  10. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 213; Schrenz / Zink, p. 125
  11. ↑ a b Schrenk / Zink, p. 123
  12. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 213; Dehio, p. 568
  13. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 213f.
  14. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 215
  15. ↑ Maurer, p. 160
  16. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 124
  17. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 125
  18. ↑ Gröber / Mader, p. 214

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 33 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 57"  E