St. Johannis (Merkendorf)
| St. Johannis | ||
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 St. Johannis in Merkendorf |
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| place | Merkendorf | |
| Construction year | 1582 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 12 '19.7 " N , 10 ° 42' 9.2" E | |
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The Evangelical Lutheran Chapel of St. Johannis in Ringstrasse 20 is a sacred building from 1582. It stands in the cemetery of the town of Merkendorf in the Franconian Lake District ( Middle Franconia ) and is dedicated to St. John .
history
The foundation stone was laid in 1582. The chapel was completed in 1584. The church suffered severe damage during the Thirty Years' War . It could not be rebuilt until 1718.
Renovations took place in 1836, 1927 and 1987/88.
construction
The St. Johannis Chapel is a simple building with a square choir , a nave and two window axes, as well as a wooden flat ceiling .
On the choir stalls there is a coat of arms, above it the name LORENZ HANEMAN with the year 1584.
On a board on the west gallery it says: “The highly praised three-in-one God, to whom zr. Honor this church through voluntary contribution including sacrifice from the people, so repaired and then ipso Festo Ascensionis Christi d. 26 May: A 1718 He was consecrated against by a sermon. Let his eyes stand open day and night over the town. He said: My name should be there Hallelujah! ”Next to it you can read:“ HANS MECK A ZIMERMAN WOL GEACHT DAS ZIMER VND THVRN DER CAPPEL MADE ANNO 1583 ”.
The pulpit altar dates from 1718.
Several tombstones from 1777 are embedded in the outer walls. Another gravestone commemorates the church councilor Adolf Kirsch († 1966) and his wife Elisabeth († 1944).
Chimes
In the roof turret was a bell that was popularly called the little death of the valley . In the 1950s, the gravedigger rang the bell at eleven o'clock on the day of a funeral. Today there are three bells hanging in the roof turret, the first, donated in 1987 by pastor Karl Schrems , cast in Bad Friedrichshall , the second from 1987 also comes from Bad Friedrichshall; the third bell was cast in Nuremberg in 1803 .
use
Since the post-war period , the cemetery chapel has been used by the newly established Catholic parish of Merkendorf, which is looked after from Wolframs-Eschenbach . Most of the Catholic expellees came from the Sudetenland , Upper Silesia , East Prussia , Hungary and Yugoslavia .
On St. John's Day, the Protestant parish commemorates its dead in the chapel.
literature
- Wilhelm Koch , Heinrich Helmreich: cemetery chapel and cemetery . In: Merkendorf - historic small town in the Franconian Lake District . Merkendorf, 1988, pp. 186-187.
