St. Johannis (Ansbach)

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St. Johannis (Ansbach)
Interior view of the choir
Vault figures in the choir
organ
The 1914–1918 war memorial on the tower

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Johannis is a listed church building in Ansbach , a city in Middle Franconia ( Bavaria ). It is used by the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of St. Johannis Ansbach of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria .

History and architecture

The parish was first mentioned in 1139. It was given to the St. Gumbert Altar by the Bishop of Würzburg . Endres Embhart and Nikolaus Eseler the Younger have been handed down as builders . Construction began in the second decade of the 15th century. The church is a three-aisled pseudo - basilica made of sandstone ashlars, which has a raised central nave, which, however, lacks its own exposure of the central nave through cliff windows. The nave was completed and covered in 1435. The two towers with different heights and roofs are probably from this time. According to the inscription, construction of the choir began in 1441. The floor of the choir was raised when the royal crypt was built . The central nave is connected to the choir to form a spatial unit.

The choir, flanked by the towers, ends in a three-eighth closure . The side aisles are cross vaulted, the central nave and the choir are closed off with net vaults. In the nave, the vault figures are rhythmized in the manner of a jumping vault.

Canopies with statues are arranged on the buttresses of the choir ; Seven of the original figures and four copies of the figures renewed in 1865 have survived. The two towers, which are different in height and structure, are a characteristic part of the cityscape. The northern five-storey tower with an octagonal upper floor is particularly richly structured by tracery panels, gallery and stair tower, while the southern one is kept simpler. A sundial and a war memorial for the period 1914–1918 are attached to the south tower .

Furnishing

The altar was taken over from St. Gumbert's church and is attributed to Peter Flötner , who migrated from Ansbach to Nuremberg in 1522 . It is considered an early example of the reception of the forms of the Northern Italian Renaissance and was slightly changed around 1600.

The princely crypt under the choir from around 1660 once contained the sarcophagi of the margraves, which are now in St. Gumbert. Some epitaphs inside are noteworthy, including the epitaph created for the mayor Wolfgang Seybald († 1631) by Georg Brenck from Windsheim , which with its colored carving can be considered an important example of the mannered Baroque of this time.

organ

The organ was built in 1962 by the organ building company Rieger (Schwarzach, Austria) and reorganized in 1991 by the organ building company Mühleisen (Leonberg). The slider chest instrument has 46 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Quintad 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Capstan whistle 4 ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Sif flute 1'
9. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Scharff IV-VI 1'
11. Dulcian 16 ′
12. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
13. Quintadena 16 ′
14th Principal 8th'
15th Piffaro (D) 8th'
16. Reed flute 8th'
17th Gemshorn 8th'
18th octave 4 ′
19th Night horn 4 ′
20th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st octave 2 ′
22nd Mixture VI-VIII 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Sesquialtera II-III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
horizontal
24. Trumpet 16 ′
25th Trumpet 8th'
III breast swelling C – g 3
26th Wooden dacked 8th'
27. Principal 4 ′
28. Reed flute 4 ′
29 Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Gemshorn 2 ′
31. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
32. octave 1'
33. Scharff III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
34. Trompette harmonique 8th'
35. shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
36. Principal 16 ′
37. Sub bass 16 ′
38. octave 8th'
39. Dumped 8th'
40. octave 4 ′
41. Quintadena 4 ′
42. Night horn 2 ′
43. Mixture VIII 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
44. trombone 16 ′
45. Trumpet 8th'
46. Trumpet 4 ′

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 30–31.
  • Reclam's Art Guide Bavaria, 3rd edition, Stuttgart 1961
  • Sabine Fack: The parish church of St. Johannis in Ansbach. A Franconian pseudo-basilica from the late Middle Ages (= Mittelfränkische Studien 7), Ansbach 1987
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 17-21 .
  • 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. 134-137 .
  • 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. 43-51 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 15 ″  E