St. Georg (Bergen)

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The St. George's Church

The St. George's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Bergen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-115-3 as a monument in the Bavarian monument list. The address is Dannhausener Straße 8; The responsible parish office is in the immediate vicinity. The medieval predecessor buildings are also registered as ground monuments (number D-5-6932-0342). The parish of St. Georg belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Weißenburg in Bavaria .

In 1771 the church tower of the previous building, which was built around 1200, collapsed . The new building of the nave and the increase of the remaining floors of the tower of the predecessor with a polygonal upper floor and a pointed helmet took place in 1773. The choir tower church has a modern vestibule . The organ prospectus of the previous church from 1732 has been preserved. In addition to several galleries, there is a wooden crucifix inside the church from around 1730. The baptismal font with the motif of the Annunciation is a Nuremberg work and dates from the 16th century.

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. Georg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Georg in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ parishes mountains, Geyern, Kaltenbuch and Thalmann field , www.weissenburg-evangelisch.de
  3. ^ Description of the Evang.-Luth. Church of St. Georg on pointoo.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 24.3 "  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 53.8"  E