St. Jakob (Häslabronn)
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The St. Jakob Church is a former pilgrimage church and an Evangelical Lutheran branch church in Häslabronn , a district of Colmberg in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach in Bavaria .
location
The church stands in an east-west orientation on a slight elevation on the eastern edge of the village near the old country road connecting Lehrberg with Rothenburg ob der Tauber (the modern one is moved a few meters to the south), surrounded by an abandoned cemetery within a core probably late medieval enclosing wall.
history
The pilgrimage church, originally part of a fortified church, was on the pilgrimage route Krakow - Nuremberg - Rothenburg ob der Tauber and on to Santiago de Compostela . With the introduction of the Reformation , the originally Roman Catholic Church became Protestant-Lutheran in 1528 under the ecclesiastical sovereignty of the Margraves of Ansbach (Häslabronn had come to Ansbach in 1507), and the pilgrimages over Häslabronn came to an abrupt end.
In 1992, the Jakobspilgerweg through Middle Franconia , which had been completely forgotten since the Reformation, was revived as the "Middle Franconian Camino" by the Heilsbronn evangelical pastor Paul Geißendörfer . Since then, St. Jakob in Häslabronn has been visited again by Santiago de Compostela pilgrims.
The church of Häslabronn is mentioned as a daughter church of St. Margaretha in Lehrberg for the first time in 1431, when two altars and the cemetery around the church were consecrated. The sacred building was probably a gift from the local nobility there, the Lords of Birkenfels or the Lords of Seckendorff- Nold.
As a pilgrimage church, the sacred space was equipped with several altars by 1431 at the latest; the services were performed by clergymen from Lehrberg. The Lehrbergers and the Häslabronner also made pilgrimages to the other church several times a year. Since pilgrimages always brought income, the Häslabronner were able to order an altarpiece from the Nuremberg painter Michael Wolgemut in 1519 .
In the Thirty Years' War the bells were lost and the tower partially collapsed. The damaged nave was provisionally restored in 1644, and in 1672 three new bells were added to the tower, which had to be delivered in 1917. In 1780 the church was completely renovated in the margrave style.
In 1812, Häslabronn and Kurzendorf were separated from the parish of Lehrberg and became a branch of the parish of Colmberg.
The church is ensemble-protected with the seven farms of Häslabronn.
Building description
The three-storey tower with belt cornices and a four-sided pyramid roof has been preserved from the late Gothic church . The sacristy is located in its basement, to which an outer door on the south side of the tower and two doors on both sides of the altar lead.
The church nave from the 18th century, built on the quarry stone tower towards the west, has three window axes, with the middle window axis on the south side being designed as a portal opening with a skylight. The windows are draped and arched in a basket . Another high portal with a skylight is located on the west side of the nave, which has rusticated pilaster strips at its four corners . The hipped mansard roof of the nave has three dormer windows on each of the long sides in the lower roof surface, which also serve to illuminate the high nave, which is closed off with a flat ceiling.
Furnishing
When the church was redesigned in 1780, the nave was given a horseshoe-shaped marbled gallery supported by round Tuscan columns; the organ is on the west gallery. A two-column pulpit altar made of stucco marble was fitted into the choir in the tower, which was extended upwards. Behind the 18th century altar cross hanging in a round arch (two angel heads in the spandrels), a simple oil painting on wood shows the walls of Jerusalem in a gloomy atmosphere appropriate to the death of Jesus. The access door to the pulpit above the altar is decorated with a painting with the motif of the “ Good Shepherd ”.
On the two long sides of the nave you can still see the so-called patronage boxes for the noble families, separated according to male and female family members, or for the visit of the margrave and his entourage. The lecture cross on the north side is a foundation from 1790; another one on the south side was donated in 1863. The font dates from 1860. In 1868 an organ by Christian Näser from Ansbach with a five-part neo - renaissance prospect was placed on the west gallery.
Four paintings by the Ansbach artist Norbert Ditt hang on the walls .
Of the three bells purchased after the First World War, only the second largest from 1922 remains; the other two bells did not come back after being sold in World War II and were replaced in 1951/52 by bells from the Karl Czudnochowsky company in Erding.
literature
- Claus Broser: Church leader for the church “St. Jakob ”in Häslabronn. Leutershausen 2007
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999
- Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (= Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB 451224701 , p. 100 .
- Manfred Jehle: Ansbach: the margravial chief offices Ansbach, Colmberg-Leutershausen, Windsbach, the Nuremberg nursing office Lichtenau and the Deutschordensamt (Wolframs-) Eschenbach (= historical atlas of Bavaria, part Franconia . I, 35). Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7696-6856-8 .
- 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. 263-264 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Wolfram Lübbeke (arrangement): Monuments in Bavaria V, Middle Franconia. Munich 1986, p. 223
- ↑ Broser, p. 7.
- ↑ Broser, pp. 10-12.
- ↑ Jehle, Vol. 1, pp. 85 f .; Deanery Leutershausen ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Broser, pp. 13-16.
- ↑ a b Broser, p. 16
- ↑ Jehle, Vol. 1, p. 79
- ↑ Broser, p. 13
- ↑ This section essentially follows Broser, pp. 16–19, and Fehring, p. 100
- ^ Dehio, p. 418
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '59.3 " N , 10 ° 27' 6.1" E