St. Jakobus (Dürrenmungenau)

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St. Jakobus is a church named after the apostle Jakobus of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Dürrenmungenau ( Dean's office Windsbach ).

Parish

Dürrenmungenau had been parish to St. Andreas (water inaccurate) since the Reformation . In 1610, Hans Christoph von Westernach acquired Dürrenmungenau Castle and had services held in the castle hall every Sunday. In 1614 the St. Jakobus Church was built, which was initially a subsidiary of Wassermungenau, but was elevated to a parish church as early as 1617. The respective lord of the castle exercised the patronage until 1982. St. Jakobus originally belonged to the Deanery Schwabach . During the Thirty Years' War the pastorate was vacant. Until 1651, the residents had to be supplied by the pastors of Kalbensteinberg, Wassermungenau and Windsbach. Until 1800 only Dürrenmungenau, Fischhaus and Weihermühle were parish to St. Jakobus. In 1810 St. Jakobus was transferred to the newly founded Dean's Office in Windsbach. Since 1820 there have been residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination in Abenberg and Kleinabenberg . These were parish in 1833 after Dürrenmungenau. In 1834 the Pippenhof , founded in the same year, was added. In 1851 the residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination in Obersteinbach were parished to Dürrenmungenau. The memorial chapel has existed in Obersteinbach since 1925 . In Abenberg, the castle chapel has been used to hold church services since 1884 , and the newly built St. John's Church since 1996 . From 1977 to 1993 St. Jakobus was cared for by the Wassermungenauer pastor.

Church building

In 1614 St. Jakobus was built as a choir tower church with a choir tower in the east, a hall building in the west and a sacristy in the north, which adjoins the hall and choir tower. In 1689 the church under Ferdinand Sigmund v. Kreß renovated. It received the two-storey octagonal tower with half-timbered in the bell storey and pointed helmet. The choir with its three pointed arch windows was left. In 1701 von Kreß had the altar and pulpit built in the Baroque style. In 1923 the hall was extended by five meters to the west. Since then it has had a gable roof that is hipped down on the west side. On the south side there is a pointed arch portal and a pointed arch window in the first axis. In the second axis, on the north and south sides, there are two small rectangular windows with an oval window above.

The single-nave hall ends with a flat wooden ceiling. A wooden gallery has been drawn in on the north and west sides. The organ is in the west, a closed cabin for the gentlemen is in the north. The hall is connected to the choir on the east wall by a round arched arcade, which ends with a burr cross vault. There is a high altar with an essay and choir stalls. Immediately in front of the choir is the font in the middle. The wooden pulpit is attached to the south wall of the master gallery opposite. On the east wall of the choir is a walled-in epitaph of Anna Veronica von Westernach († 1614), above it a large oil painting, which is a variation of Hieronymus in the case and was painted by Henricus Psichander in 1561.

The church was last extensively renovated from 1982 to 1984. In 2005 the roof structure and the bell cage of the church were renovated. In 2014 she received four new bronze bells.

organ

Organ Dürrenm inaccurate
Game table from 1885, Opus 277 from GF Steinmeyer, Oettingen / Bavaria

The church's first organ was donated in 1718; its builder is unknown. The second organ was built in the 1780s by the Nuremberg organ builder Johann Jakob Bodechtel. The brochure in the Rococo style is preserved. In 1885, a new organ in the form of a mechanical cone chest from GF Steinmeyer from Oettingen / Bavaria was built into the case as Opus 277. For war purposes, the tin prospect pipes were removed in 1917 and replaced by zinc pipes in 1922. In 1952 the organ received an electric fan. An additional mechanical cone drawer for the chorale bass 4 'register was attached to the existing pedal mechanism. The Tibia manual register has been removed. During the church renovation in 1983/1984, the organ was refurbished, moved back a little and placed on a pedestal. The organ underwent a further technical and acoustic renovation in 2017. The pedal register chorale bass was replaced by the violon 8 ′ register and an additional manual register flute 4 ′ was installed. For reasons of sound and appearance, pewter prospect pipes were used again. Due to its age, high technical functionality and beautiful sound, the organ is a special feature of the Windsbach deanery .

The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Covered 8th'
Salicional 8th' (C – H Gedackt made of wood)
Principal 4 ′ (c – gis ° in the brochure)
flute 4 ′ (overblowing from c¹)
Octave 2 ′ (Advance deduction from mixture)
Mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Violon 8th'

literature

  • Karl Gröber, Felix Mader : City and district of Schwabach (=  The art monuments of Bavaria . Middle Franconia 7). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1939, DNB  366496239 , p. 169-175 .
  • Horst Heissmann (Ed.): ... in the midst of you: 200 years of the Windsbach deanery . History, Parishes & Institutions. Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Neuendettelsau 2009, ISBN 978-3-87214-801-8 , p. 72-75 .
  • 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. 184-185 .
  • Eberhard Krauss: Exiles in the Evangelical Luth. Deanery Windsbach in the 17th century. A family history investigation (=  sources and research on Franconian family history . Volume 19 ). Society for Family Research in Franconia, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-929865-12-7 , p. 25-30 u. passim .
  • Günther Zeilinger with e. Working group d. Dekanates (Ed.): Windsbach - a deanery in Franconia (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1987, ISBN 3-87214-220-8 , p. 80-89 .

Web links

Commons : St. James  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 58.1 ″  E