St. Jakob (Weihenzell)

St. Jakob, south side

St. Jakob is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Weihenzell ( Deanery Ansbach ) named after the Apostle James the Elder .

Parish

Weihenzell is considered to be the foundation of the Gumbertuskloster and has always been closely related to it. There was a chapel as early as the 10th century, of which the crypt still remains today. St. Veit , a former pilgrimage chapel, probably dates from the 12th century and stood on the so-called Kappellberg on the way to Petersdorf . In the 14th century St. Jakob is mentioned by name for the first time, which at that time was already an independent parish.

The patronage was originally exercised by the provost of the Gumbertuss pen . The St. Johannes (Wernsbach bei Ansbach) and St. Martin (Moratneustetten) branches belonged to the parish . The villages of Adelmannsdorf , Brünst (partially), Gebersdorf , Gödersklingen , Grüb , Haasgang , Hanmansmühle , Kühndorf , Moratneustetten , Neubronn , Neumühle , Röshof , Schmalach , Schönbronn , Thierbach , Thurndorf , Wernsbach , Wippendorf and Zellrüglingen were included .

On March 14, 1503, St. John was raised to an independent parish. Brünst, Gödersklingen, Hanmansmühle, Kühndorf, Röshof, Schmalach, Schönbronn and Wernsbach belonged to the parish.

Since 1528, sermon services were held in Weihenzell according to the Protestant understanding. The principality of Ansbach held church sovereignty after the Reformation, the parish was assigned to the newly created deanery of Leutershausen .

After the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, St. Jakob as well as St. Stephanus and St. Johannes had to be supplied by the parish of Mitteldachstetten . Approx. In 1650 St. Stephanus became a subsidiary of Weihenzell.

St. Jakob has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810. From 1856 St. Stephanus became an independent parish again.

The legally independent parish of Forst has been part of the parish since 1974, and the parish of Wernsbach since 2013.

Today the parish of St. Jakob includes the places Adelmannsdorf (partially), Fessenmühle , Gebersdorf, Grüb, Moratneustetten, Neubronn, Neumühle, Papiermühle , Schmalnbachshof , Steinmühle , Thierbach, Thurndorf, Wippendorf and Zellrüglingen.

In 1970 the parish had 500 parishioners, at the beginning of the 1990s there were 1,300 parish members, today (as of approx. 2017) 1,600 parish members.

Church building

From the original church only the tower remains, which is from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century. The tower, made of sandstone blocks, has four storeys and an eight-sided pointed helmet. The choir with groin vault and piscina in the west wall has been preserved on the ground floor. The upper floors have loopholes, the bell floor has ogival sound openings and dials on all sides. There are three bells in it, two of which were removed for war purposes and replaced by new bells in 1954. In the south is the nave, which was built in 1713 according to plans by the Eichstätter court building director Gabriel de Gabrieli . The nave has four axes of arched windows on the north and south sides and in the east a choir with a 5/8 end, also with arched windows. On the west side there is an arched portal with a swinging bow roof, above it an ox eye and in the gable again an ox eye. The sacristy adjoins the south side. The nave has a gable roof, which is hipped to the east, to the west there is an axis with hipped dormers.

The single-nave hall and the choir are closed inside with a barrel vault. The choir is connected to the hall and has a semicircular apse. There is an altar in the Baroque style, which was probably built in the second quarter of the 18th century. The altarpiece shows a resurrection image (1831), which is surrounded on the left and right by twisted columns. Above it is the margrave's coat of arms with a hat, to the left and right of it angels pointing to the crucifix that stands on the top. A double gallery has been inserted in the hall on the west, south and north sides. On the south side there is a wooden pulpit (1842) with a staircase and an octagonal basket. The font originally stood in front of the altar.

literature

• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 150-151 .
• 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. 292-295 .
• Günther Roesner: Weihenzell. History and present of a Middle Franconian village . 2nd, revised edition. Ansbach 1999, p. 79-100 (first edition: 1985).
• 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. 154-161 .

Web links

• Weihenzell on the website kirchengemeinden-weihenzell-wernsbach-forst.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ G. Roesner, p. 86; H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 155.
2. ↑ G. Roesner, p. 86; M. Jehle, p. 293; H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 155.
3. ↑ G. Roesner, p. 82.
4. ↑ ^{a b} M. Jehle, p. 292.
5. ↑ The Bayreuth subjects belonged to the parish of St. Mauritius (Warzfelden) .
6. ↑ Parish to St. Margaretha (Rügland) since 1827 .
7. ↑ G. Roesner, p. 82; M. Jehle, p. 294.
8. ↑ G. Roesner, p. 24.
9. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 295.
10. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 161.
11. ↑ Wernsbach on the website kirchengemeinden-weihenzell-wernsbach-forst.de
12. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 158.
13. ↑ Weihenzell on the website kirchengemeinden-weihenzell-wernsbach-forst.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 19.5 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 42.5 ″  E