St. Andreas (Dietenhofen)

Dietenhofen, St. Andreas

St. Andreas is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after the apostle Andreas in Dietenhofen ( Dean's Office Ansbach ).

Parish

In 1431 there is the first written mention of a parish church in Dietenhofen. However, a pastor in Dietenhofen is attested as early as 1297. Parts of the nave are Romanesque and may have been built in the early 11th century. Manfred Jehle also counts Dietenhofen among the large parishes that arose relatively early. Dietenhofen originally had five branches: St. Andreas (Unterschlauersbach) , St. Bartholomäus (Oberreichenbach) , St. Leonhard (Götteldorf) , St. Maria Magdalena (Seubersdorf) and St. Mauritius (Warzfelden) . There were also four chapels, the Gratianuskapelle (Kleinhaslach) , the castle chapel in Leonrod, and chapels in Neudorf and Rüdern. A total of 24 towns and farms were supplied. St. Martin (Kleinhaslach) was only removed from the parish of St. Maria (Großhaslach) and transferred to St. Andreas after the Reformation .

In 1297 the lords of Tannenberg were parish patrons in Dietenhofen, then the lords of Dietenhofen , and at the beginning of the 14th century the lords of Leonrod . In 1684, this right was transferred to the Margraviate of Ansbach-Brandenburg with the sale of the Dietenhofen property .

Around 1820, St. Martin in Kleinhaslach and St. Maria Magdalena in Seubersdorf formed a parish. On December 19, 1842, St. Martin was raised to a parish with St. Maria Magdalena as a branch. In 1970 St. Maria Magdalena moved back to St. Andreas.

The parishes of Dietenhofen, Götteldorf and Seubersdorf are divided into 2 districts. Sprengel 1 includes Dietenhofen (north of the Bibert), Dietenholz , Götteldorf , Herpersdorf , Lentersdorf , Neudietenholz , Neudorf , Oberschlauersbach , Seubersdorf and Walburgswinden . He currently has about 2000 parishioners. Sprengel 2 includes Dietenhofen (south of the Bibert), Ebersdorf , Haunoldshofen , Höfen , Leonrod , Rüdern and Stolzmühle . He currently has about 1000 parishioners.

Church building

The church was built as a choir tower church with the choir tower in the east, a nave in the west and a sacristy in the north. The oldest parts can be found in the nave (west and south portal with larger connected sections of the wall) and can be dated to the early 11th century. In the third quarter of the 15th century the church was rebuilt and the choir tower was rebuilt. In 1586 the tower was rebuilt from yellow-brown sandstone blocks. It has three storeys and is closed by an octagonal spire with four watch towers (height: 49 meters).

In the single nave nave there are frescoes from the 15th century on the southern wall. The high altar with top is in the choir and was made around 1510. In 1696 a double gallery was built around the north and west wall. The pulpit was built in the second half of the 17th century and placed in its current location in 1858, on the east wall of the nave.

The church was renovated in 1882, 1931 and 1977.

literature

• Italo Bacigalupo and Johannes Tröbs with e. Working group d. Dekanates (Ed.): Evang [elisch] -Luth [erisches] Dekanat Neustadt an der Aisch (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1986, ISBN 3-87214-210-0 , p. 121-129 .
• Manfred Jehle: Church conditions and religious institutions on the upper Altmühl, Rezat and Bibert: Monasteries, parishes and Jewish communities in the Altlandkreis Ansbach in the Middle Ages and in modern times (=  Middle Franconian Studies . Volume 20 ). Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-771-9 .
• Josef Kollar (Ed.): Market Dietenhofen . 1985, p. 43-49, 71-92 .
• Richard Strobel: District Neustadt an der Aisch (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 32 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972, DNB  730125742 , p. 50-54 .

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website st-andreas-kirche-dietenhofen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Originally the parish Dietenhofen belonged to the deanery Neustadt an der Aisch . The change took place in the 1980s at the earliest.
2. ↑ H. Strobel, p. 50. Anders J. Kollar (ed.), P. 71. According to this, the church is first mentioned in a document in 1459 in the will of Jörg von Leonrod.
3. ↑ H. Strobel, p. 50; J. Kollar (Ed.), P. 71.
4. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 115.
5. ↑ H. Sommer, p. 122.
6. ↑ Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 229 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
7. ↑ J. Kollar, p. 73.
8. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 311
9. ↑ H. Sommer, p. 123.
10. ↑ st-andreas-kirche-dietenhofen.de ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 3.2 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 22.9 ″  E