St. Bartholomäus (Brodswinden)

St. Bartholomew Church, west side

Funeral hall

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

Parish

The first chapel was built on the so-called Wendelsbuck in the 12th century and was dedicated to St. Wendelin . The patronage was held by the provost of the St. Gumbertus Foundation. In the first half of the 15th century, a church dedicated to St. Sixtus II was built in the center of the village. At that time the parish was a branch of St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) . In 1467 Margrave Albrecht Achilles donated a holy mass in St. Sixtus, which was provided by his own chaplain. As a result, Brodswinden was elevated to a parish, but with limited rights: Solemn celebrations were not allowed to be held in the church, confessions were not made, weddings and baptisms were not held. Furthermore, the dead were buried in Saxony and the Saxon pastor was entitled to certain income.

With the arrival of the Reformation in 1528, these special rights ceased to exist with the exception of the burial of the dead, who were still buried in Saxony until 1611. The patronage of the Apostle Bartholomew was also changed. The principality of Ansbach held church sovereignty after the Reformation, the parish was assigned to the newly created deanery of Leutershausen .

From 1635 to 1658 the parishes of St. Alban, St. Bartholomäus and St. Lambertus (Eyb) had to be connected because of the population loss caused by the Thirty Years' War. In 1658, St. Alban regained independence, and in 1668, finally, St. Bartholomew.

The parish was financed by the church foundation assets (church, cemetery, schoolhouse), the parish foundation assets (parsonage, securities, land, rights), a poor foundation, the Lierhammer confirmation foundation, the school foundation and the Gottesackerkasse.

Around 1800 the following places were parish to St. Bartholomew: Burgoberbach , Claffheim , Gösseldorf , Höfstetten , Hohe Fichte , Neuses , Silbermühle , Wallersdorf , Winterschneidbach , Wolfartswinden . In the early 1990s, it had 1,400 parish members. St. Bartholomew has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810. Since 1812 Neuses no longer belongs to the parish and since 1995 Burgoberbach. Both places were changed to the parish (Sommersdorf) . The attempted re- parish from Ratzen winds to St. Bartholomäus finally failed in 1846.

Church building

The oldest part of the church is the Gothic choir in the east with a 5/8 end and three pointed arch windows, which was completed in 1442. Stones from the former Wendelin chapel were also built into this. The interior dimensions of the choir are 10 meters in length, 7 meters in width and 10.70 meters in height. In 1556 the hall was built in the west from plastered quarry stone with corner blocks, which could be completed in 1567/77. The interior dimensions of the hall are 25 meters in length, 10 meters in width and 6.70 in height. It is accessible in the west and south through a pointed arch portal. There is also a pointed arch window on the west side and three pointed arch windows on the south side. The church tower was built from sandstone blocks on the south side of the choir in 1718. The wall wreath is rectangular (3.2 × 5.6 m), the bell storey octagonal with round-arched sound openings. It is completed by a pointed eight-sided pyramid roof. It has a total height of 35 meters.

The single-nave hall is closed off flat by a wooden ceiling and connected to the choir on the east side by a pointed arch. In the choir there is a high altar made of wood from 1876 with a Franconian wooden crucifix, probably made around 1500. There is also an organ gallery here. The pulpit is on the south side of the choir arch. The church was renovated in 1991/92 and 2016/17.

Pastor

• 1534 - 0000Johann Mayr
• 1651– 0000Johann Georg Kehrer
• 1668–1710 Georg Müller
• (...)
• 1733–1740 Johann Philipp Engelhard
• 1740– 0000Johann Leonhard Kepner
• 1788–1789 Georg Paul Seger
• 1789–1822 Johann Christian Müller
• (...)
• 1889–1901 Johann Heinrich Friedrich Fuchs
• 1901–1914 Johann Friedrich Hölzlein
• 1914–1934 Karl Heinrich Bomhard
• 1935–1939 Erich Lederer
• 1939–1946 Johannes Götz
• 1946–1959 Georg Weidt
• 1959–1971 Erich Medicus
• 1971–1991 Wilhelm Distler
• 1991– 0000Hermann Hanf
• 2000–2010 Matthias Ewelt
• 2010– 0000Rainer Grimm

literature

• Wolfgang Düngfelder: Bartholomäuskirche Brodswinden. 550 years of church and community life . Brodswinden 1992.
• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 84-85 .
• 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. 160-161 .
• Georg Rusam: History of the parish of Saxony and the associated places . C. Brügel & Sohn, Ansbach 1940, DNB  575937491 , p. 51–52 ( digitized from WikiCommons [PDF]).
• 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. 90-94 .

Web links

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

• kirche-brodswinden.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ W. Düngfelder, p. 1.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} M. Jehle, p. 160.
3. ↑ According to M. Jehle, p. 161, this happened in 1477.
4. ↑ G. Rusam, p. 51f.
5. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 91.
6. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 140; W. Düngfelder, p. 3.
7. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 161.
8. ↑ ^{a b c} W. Düngfelder, p. 5.
9. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 90.
10. ↑ kirche-burgoberbach-thann.de
11. ^ GP Fehring, pp. 84f .; W. Düngfelder, pp. 8-14.

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 46 "  N , 10 ° 36 ′ 29.6"  E