St. Johannes (Lichtenau)
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St. Johannes is a Roman Catholic church named after John the Baptist in Lichtenau ( Herrieden deanery of the Eichstätt diocese ).
Parish
Since the erection of a prison in Lichtenau in 1808 there have been Catholics in the village. The prison became a curate of the parish of Obereschenbach (= Wolframs-Eschenbach ) and was looked after by the ex-Capuchin Anaclet Gastbihl from Eichstätt. In the period that followed, the Catholic residents also took part in the service, which is why the curate was also granted parish rights in 1834. In 1842 it was decreed that only prisoners of Catholic denomination were accommodated in the prison and that only Catholic staff were employed.
On December 1, 1908, it was assigned to the Heilsbronn Expositur , which was elevated to a parish in 1950.
After the Second World War the number of Catholics rose sharply due to refugees from Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia (approx. 540 in Lichtenau, approx. 500 in the neighboring communities of Alberndorf , Immeldorf , Saxony near Ansbach and Volkersdorf ). Initially, church services could be held in the Evangelical Trinity Church and in the gymnasium and theater hall of the castle . In 1951 a plot of land of 1350 m² near the cemetery was acquired for the construction of a church, which was built in 1952 according to the plans of the architect Roman Kretzer. The costs amounted to 32,610 DM. In 1970 St. Johannes was raised to a parish to which St. Josef (Saxony near Ansbach) belongs. St. Johannes belongs to the parish association Heilsbronn.
Church building
St. Johannes consists of a simple nave 21 meters long and 8 meters wide with a flat gable roof. On the west side is the roofed arched portal, to the left of which there is a crucifix, and a circular window above the portal. There are four axes with arched windows on the north and south sides. On the west side there is a bell tower with an octagonal floor plan as a roof turret. The community center and the rectory are connected to the north side. A wooden crucifix is attached to the east wall of the hall. In the east there is also an altar, ambo and tabernacle.
literature
- Hermann Dallhammer: Saxony near Ansbach. A chronicle . Ansbach 1999, DNB 958130183 , p. 247-254 .
- Ludwig Hefele: History of the parish Veitsaurach . Funk Druck, Eichstätt 1977, p. 29 .
- Wilhelm Schwemmer: Alt-Lichtenau and fortress. From the history of the village and the fortress . Korn & Berg, Nuremberg 1980, ISBN 978-3-87432-072-6 , pp. 52 .
Web links
- Sachsen-Lichtenau on the website bistum-eichstaett.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ H. Dallhammer, p. 247.
- ↑ L. Hefele, p. 29.
- ↑ a b H. Dallhammer, p. 250.
- ↑ a b W. Schwemmer, p. 52.
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Filial churches, cemetery churches and chapels: Chapel (Kettersbach) | St. Josef (Saxony near Ansbach) | St. Leonhard (Burgoberbach) | St. Nikolaus von Flüe (Weidenbach) | St. Sebastian (Wolframs-Eschenbach) | St. Walburga (Mitteleschenbach) | Our Lady (Herrieden) | To the crucified savior (Gersbach)
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 5.2 ″ E