St. Bartholomäus (Unternbibert)

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St. Bartholomew, north side

St. Bartholomäus is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after the apostle Bartholomäus in Unterstbibert ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

The church is first mentioned in 1411. The original patronage was St. Barbara . St. Barbara was originally a branch of St. Laurentius (Flachslanden) . The patronage exercised the Nikolausstift in Spalt . In the following period there were repeated disputes about the financial resources of the church and the taxes to be paid to the mother church of St. Laurentius. In 1441 the dispute was ended by the Würzburg Official Court by separating from St. Barbara. The chapel of St. Kilian and Klara in Andorf actually belonged to St. Barbara . However, the preacher was provided by the respective Rügland castle lords. It was only after the Thirty Years' War that Unterbibert appointed the preacher for St. Kilian and Clare.

The Reformation was introduced in 1530. The patronage was changed to the Apostle Bartholomäus. The principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach took over church sovereignty and thus patronage . Since then the parish has belonged to the newly founded dean's office in Leutershausen . As a result of the Thirty Years' War, from 1634 to 1666, the pastor from Flachslanden had to take care of Unterbibert.

Around 1800 the parish included Andorf , Äußere Mühle , Fladengreuth , Frickendorf , Obernbibert , Stockheim and Untere Mühle . St. Bartholomew has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810.

Since 1980 the parish of St. Bartholomäus has been provided for by the Rügland pastor.

Church building

From the original church, only the basement of the choir tower, which is made of sandstone blocks and is marked 1441, has been preserved. This has a pointed arch window on the south and east side. In 1679 two new upper floors were also built from sandstone blocks, which are divided by cornices. The bell storey has pointed arch sound openings and a clock face on all sides and a sundial on the south side. Two bells were taken over. The smallest bell was cast in 1571 and bears the inscription "Dominus tecum Ave Maria Gloria gratia". The other bell was cast in 1572. In 1683 a third bell was cast, bearing the inscription “I have to lure people to worship, that's why they call me the prayer bells”. A retracted eight-sided pointed helmet sits on the bell floor. The nave in the west was rebuilt from quarry stone in 1685 and is plastered on all sides. It has two axes of a small stitch arch window with a vertical rectangular stitch arch window above each. An arched portal is located on the south side. The nave has a gable roof that is hipped down on the west side. At the end of the 19th century, a sacristy with a pent roof was added to the north side of the tower . It has a rectangular portal on the east side, half-timbering in the gable and a window on the north side.

The single-nave hall ends with a flat ceiling. The entire interior was redesigned in the Baroque style in 1777 under the court architect Johann David Steingruber . A two-storey wooden gallery has been inserted on the north side and a single-storey wooden gallery on the west side. On the west gallery is an organ from GF Steinmeyer & Co. On the south side there is a wooden pulpit from 1765. It has a square basket with bevelled corners and inlaid work depicting Christ and Peter in the fields. The also four-sided sound cover is provided with a volute crown and carving. On the east side, the hall is connected to the choir by a pointed arch arcade. In front of the arcade there is a sandstone baptismal font, which is marked 1757. The basin is supported by an angel and two strong volutes . The wooden lid has a volute crown with a cross. The altar, which is marked 1773 and was donated by Dorothea Wirth, is located in the cross-rib vaulted choir. On the cafeteria there is an altarpiece with Corinthian double column arrangement, which shows an inlay of the crucified Jesus in the middle, above a sculpture of the risen Christ and the Brandenburg coat of arms. The predella shows the Last Supper as inlay. The church offers seating for 180 people. It is worth mentioning a tombstone of Anna von Zogenreuth around 1492/1497 with a high relief of the deceased and an inscription on the eastern wall of the hall, which can be ascribed to the master of the Ansbach swan knights .

A comprehensive interior renovation was carried out in 1969/70.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 143-144 .
  • 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 , p. 275-279 .
  • Hans Sommer with e. Working group d. Dean's office (ed.): It happened in the name of faith: Protestant in the Ansbach deanery (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-87214-248-8 , p. 120-126 .
  • Gottfried Stieber: Untern-Biebert . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 868-870 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : St. Bartholomäus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c M. Jehle, p. 275.
  2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 277.
  3. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 123.
  4. ↑ Website ruegland.de (see below )
  5. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 278.
  6. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 124.
  7. ↑ So H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 123. According to GP Fehring (p. 143) the year is probably 1491, according to website ruegland.de (see below ) it is certainly 1491.
  8. ↑ So H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 123. According to the website ruegland.de (see below ), the smallest bell was cast in 1521.

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 19.2 "  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 23.8"  E