St. Augustine (Stopfenheim)

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The St. Augustine Church

The St. Augustine Church (also St. Augustine ) is a Roman Catholic church in Stopfenheim , a district of the town of Ellingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is the parish church of the Parish Stopfenheim, which belongs to the Parish Association of Weißenburg, in the deanery Weißenburg-Wemding in the diocese of Eichstätt . The postal address is Ellinger Straße 2. The building is registered under monument number D-5-77-125-163 as a monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval predecessor buildings of the church are also registered under the number D-5-6931-0463 as a ground monument. The patronage is St. Augustine of Hippo (August 28).

Building history

The building had three previous buildings. The first church was consecrated between 1057 and 1075 by Eichstatt Bishop Gundekar II , the second between 1182 and 1196 by Otto . The third parish church was built from 1484. From the latter, parts of the furnishings were integrated into today's parish church.

St. Augustine was by architect Matthias Binder , on behalf of Baron Franz Sigismund Adalbert of Lehrbach , Franconian German Order - Landkomtur , from 1773 to 1775 as a hall church built and on 29 September 1867 to St. Consecrated to Augustine. The foundation stone was laid on June 22, 1773; the benediction on November 21, 1775.

Architecture and equipment

The altarpiece shows St. Augustine

The church is mostly baroque , especially in the late rococo , but it is also influenced by classical elements. The front is on the east side and is adorned by several statues of the master Leonhard Meyer and a large coat of arms. The sandstone tower is crowned by a dome with a lantern . The masonry is plastered. The statues by Leonhard Meyer include a larger than life Maria Immaculata , St. Elisabeth of Thuringia and St. George .

The nave measures 22.65 m × 14.75 m, the choir 11.55 m × 7.70 m. The choir stalls from 1720 have a richly shaped flat carving.

The ceiling paintings by Wilhelm Asselborn were created in the style of history painting in 1863/1864 . The paintings show the ascension of Jesus Christ , on the sides evangelists with symbols, St. Augustine, Pope Gregory the Great , St. Ambrose of Milan and St. Jerome . At the transition to the choir are St. Willibald von Eichstätt , St. Walburga and the birth of Christ in the choir .

Parish

In 2007 the Catholic parish of St. Augustine comprised a total of 1,147 Catholics. The branch St. Nikolaus in Dorsbrunn with 705 inhabitants has belonged to it since 1928 (status: 2007; 320 of them Catholics).

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 .

Web links

Commons : St. Augustine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catholic parish St. Augustinus, Stopfenheim , www.bistum-eichstaett.de, website of the parish on the website of the diocese of Eichstätt
  2. ↑ Catholic parish church St. Augustin in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ Monument
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Our churches: Parish St. Augustine Stopfenheim : Dean's Office Weissenburg-Wemding; Retrieved March 4, 2019
  5. ↑ Heraldic website for the parish church of St. Augustine
  6. ↑ St. Augustine , www.recordare.de
  7. ↑ www.gottiswelt.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 20.3 ″  E