St. Hieronymus (Wachenhofen)

The St. Jerome Church

The St. Hieronymus Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Wachenhofen , a district of Alesheim in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Middle Franconia . It is part of the Theilenhofen parish association in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-113-17 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval , underground components of the church are also registered as a ground monument (number: D-5-6931-0438).

The choir tower church has what is probably a medieval church tower, the upper floor of which was built in the 18th century. The tower is crowned by a pointed helmet. The three-axis nave , structured by buttresses, is neo-Gothic and was built between 1870 and 1871 according to the plans of Wilhelm Langenfass . The churchyard wall adjacent to the south dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. The west facade was decorated with a door frame , a window with a lash closure and a rose window . The church is based on the interior design of St. Willibald's Church in Weißenburg in Bavaria . There is a late Gothic star vault above the chancel . With 88 parish members, the Wachenhofen parish is the smallest in the Gunzenhausen dean's office. The patronage of the church is the church father Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus .

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 .