St. Johannis (Abenberg)

St. Johannis (Abenberg)

St. Johannis is a church named after the evangelist and apostle Johannes of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Jakobus (Dürrenmungenau) in the Windsbach deanery .

Parish

Since 1820 there have been residents of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination in Abenberg and Kleinabenberg . These were parish in 1833 after Dürrenmungenau. When the number of Lutherans grew to around 100 around 1880, they looked for a prayer room in Abenberg. From 1884 the castle chapel was allowed to be used to hold church services, which offered space for 60 visitors. At the end of the 1980s the number of Lutherans rose to almost 400, for whom the castle chapel no longer offered enough space for the Sunday service. For this reason, a piece of land on Spalter Strasse was acquired by the church council in 1988, on which the St. John's Church with an integrated community center was built. The inauguration took place on October 20, 1996. The patronage was deliberately chosen because Johannes is the brother of Jakobus , which is both the patronage of the Catholic St. Jakobus Church in Abenberg and the mother church in Dürrenmungenau. In the meantime (as of 2009) there are over 600 residents in Abenberg with an Evangelical Lutheran denomination.

Church building

St. Johannis is a modern church building with a 5/8 choir, which connects asymmetrically to the east and north side of the hall. On the west side there is a church tower in the middle with an octagonal floor plan and a pointed roof. The hall building has a saddle roof with three gable dormers on the south side and two gable dormers on the west side and modern rectangular windows on all sides. The community center is housed in the hall, the church service room is in the choir room.

The designed by Barbara Gsaenger altar and stained glass windows should remember that the first chapter of the Apostle John Revelation represent. The angel of trumpets on the top of the church tower is an allusion to Rev 14.6  EU : "I saw an angel flying through the middle of heaven, who had an eternal gospel to preach ...". " I am words " of Jesus from the Gospel of John can be read on the four bells .

literature

• 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. 73-74 .
• 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. 85-86 .

Web link

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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 26.9 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 46.9 ″  E