St. Georg (Sachsbach)

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St. Georg, north and west side

St. Georg is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after St. George in Sachsbach ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

St. Georg was first mentioned in a letter of indulgence in 1342 as a branch of St. Walburga and Nikolaus in Beyerberg , but is probably older. A little later in the 14th century, St. Georg became a branch of the Marienmünster in Königshofen an der Heide , and from 1902 finally a branch of the Johannis Church in Bechhofen.

Today's Sachsbach parish has its own parish council. It includes the villages of Sachsbach, Reichenau and Lettenmühle . There are weekly services.

Church building

The choir tower in the east has a square floor plan and is two-story. In the choir floor it has a pointed arch window on the east side and a round arch window on the south side. On the north side is the sacristy with a pent roof. The bell storey has half-timbering on the south, north and east sides and has arched sound openings on all sides. The eight-sided helmet has a wooden eaves cornice and ends with a knob and weather valve. The nave in the west has a gable roof. On the south side there are five pointed arched windows, under the middle window there is a rectangular portal. There are two pointed arch windows on the north side. On the west side there is also a rectangular portal, to the left and right of it a rectangular window and above each a pointed arch window. In the gable there is a round window with neo-Gothic fish bubble tracery .

The single-nave hall closes off inside with a flat ceiling. A gallery is drawn in to the west up to the third window axis. The cross-rib vaulted choir is connected to the hall by a round arch with fighters . In this is the altar with a protruding, richly profiled cafeteria. The grand piano retable , which was made around 1500, is located in the Feuchtwangen Local History Museum like the choir stalls that were made at the same time . The font, which was probably made around 1600, has a square, slightly chamfered base with an octagonal basin.

literature

  • Hans Karlmann Ramisch: District Feuchtwangen (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 21 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1964, DNB  453909426 , p. 112-113 .
  • 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. 87-89 .

Web links

Commons : St. Georg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HK Ramisch, p. 112.
  2. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), Pp. 87f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 58.2 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 27.2 ″  E