St. Jobst (Lehrberg)

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St. Jobst, north and west side

St. Jobst is a former Evangelical-Lutheran chapel named after St. Jodok in Lehrberg ( Dean's office Ansbach ). The ruin is popularly called "Kappl".

History

St. Jobst was founded in 1430 by Eustachius v. Birkenfels, the lord of Lehrberg at the time. In 1443 a middle mass was set up, which was celebrated by a chaplain. A fine of 400 florins and a hundredweight of wax, which Arnold von Seckendorff zu Birkenfels had to pay for killing Jorg von Birkenfels, was used to finance it. The Birkenfelsers zu Lehrberg had the right of patronage over the middle fair. Stephan von Birkenfels died in 1532 without any descendants. In 1534 Wolf von Wilhermsdorf seized the right of patronage, but did not allow the middle fair to be held. In 1540 he sold his rights and goods to Georg , the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach . Henceforth the accounts of saints from St. Jobst and St. Margaretha (Lehrberg) were combined. In the Eichstätter description of the office of the upper bishopric of 1721 it is said that St. Jobst was completely lost.

Church building

The former quarry stone choir tower church was built on a hill, the so-called "Kappelberg", immediately east of Lehrberg. The choir tower in the east has a square floor plan with a side length of 7 meters. The nave in the west had a rectangular floor plan of 15 meters (N / S) × 7 meters (E / W). In 1761 the four walls of this still existed. The coats of arms and paintings painted on the wall were partially recognizable on these, including the Birkenfels'sche Ring. At that time the choir tower was already missing the roof. Today only the choir floor and the first floor of the tower are preserved. On the west side is the choir arch, above it an arched window. The ribbed vault is still preserved inside. The keystone shows the Birkenfels coat of arms. On the north and south sides it has an axis of notch-like rectangular windows. The upper floor has a three-pass window on the east side and an axis of notch-like rectangular windows on the north and south sides.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 119 .
  • 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. 263-271 .
  • 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. 117 .
  • Gottfried Stieber: Lehrberg . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 556-557 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b G. P. Fehring, p. 119.
  2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 270.
  3. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 266.
  4. ↑ G. Stieber, p. 557.

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 41.3 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 52.5"  E