St. Gangolf (Windsfeld)

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St. Gangolf

The St. Gangolf Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Windsfeld , a district of Dittenheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The parish church of the parish Dittenheim in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery Gunzenhausen is registered as a monument in the Bavarian monument list under monument number D-5-77-122-41 . The postal address is Windsfeld 50 .

The church is located in the town center at a height of 415 meters above  sea ​​level . The originating in the core of the 15th century choir tower has an octagonal bell tower , which was increased 1718th The pointed helmet has colored glazed bricks.

The nave was rebuilt in 1823 and consecrated on October 26, 1823.

In 1980 extensive renovations took place.

In the choir there is a late Gothic ribbed vault , a tabernacle niche with a wooden shrine and some epitaphs from the 17th and 18th centuries.

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 , p. 87 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of St. Gangolf , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on May 5, 2016)
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ pointoo.de , accessed on May 5, 2016

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 37.3 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 54.1 ″  E