St. Kunigund (Reuth)

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St. Kunigund, south side

St. Kunigund is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Reuth named after Saint Kunigund of Luxembourg . It is a branch church of the St. Nikolai community in Neuendettelsau . The parish fair is celebrated annually on the third Sunday in September. With currently 70 parish members, St. Kunigund is the smallest parish of the Windsbach deanery .

history

St. Kunigund, north side

Originally, the residents of Reuth and the surrounding villages were parish to St. Maria (Großhaslach) . Since the way there was very long, an application was made to build their own chapels in which services could be celebrated. This was granted for Reuth in 1453. In the same year the church was built under the patronage of Saint Kunigunde (wife of King Henry II ), the Virgin and Mother of God, Mary and John the Baptist .

In 1473, Reuth and the surrounding villages applied to Petrus Wegel, the 23rd abbot of the Heilsbronn monastery , for complete separation from the mother church and the establishment of their own parish. The abbot allowed this, but with the following condition: “The pastor of Haslach receives 6 Sra every year. Korn as compensation for the departed and, on the other hand, undertakes not to make any claims either to the monastery or to the departed (...). "

This was also approved by Bishop Rudolf II of Würzburg , but he also decreed: “The patronage of the newly established parish belongs to Heilsbronn Monastery. J. Baldrauss, who was appointed pastor by him, is hereby confirmed, but at the same time obliged to pay homage to the mother church Haslach every year at the parish fair, the Sunday before St. Jakob, with his parishioners with flags and relics in procession to Großhaslach, to attend the mass service there, (...). "

For about 70 years, Reuth and the surrounding villages were their own parish, which also included a parish and a sacristan's house. Since 1545, however, there has been no own pastor in Reuth, mainly for financial reasons. St. Kunigund became a branch of St. Michael (Weißenbronn) . Mosbach and Neuses first came to St. Michael, but from 1603 they stayed with the church in Windsbach .

The church was partially destroyed during the Thirty Years War , and restoration work began in 1663. In 1767 the tower was raised and the roof of the nave was lowered, and in 1795 the churchyard wall was removed and renewed. In 1848, at the suggestion of Wilhelm Löhe, St. Kunigund was changed from Weißenbronn to Neuendettelsau.

In 1970 and 2008/09, the interior of the St. Kunigund Church was almost completely renovated.

Building description

Located in the cemetery, made of quarry stone and corner stone blocks, Gothic, Baroque modified building, consisting of choir tower and hall building. Choir on a square floor plan with groin vault over round consoles ; tall rectangular grooved windows; Arched access to the sacristy to the north ; Pointed arch opening profiled against the hall with a throat and bulge profile. Flat-roofed hall with three arched windows on the south side, on the west side round and arched windows, on the north side a pointed arch portal with a throat-bulge profile and a grooved, high rectangular window. On the south side of the choir and on the front sides of the Piscinae hall . Wooden galleries on the north and west side. Gable roof . In the tower floor narrow embrasures ; slightly retracted baroque bell storey with arched sound openings and a four-sided pyramid roof.

Altar: on a medieval stone canteen, a late Gothic altar shrine from 1515 by Martin Fesele ; in the shrine with tracery and bursts of modern crucifix , with open wings on the left baptism of Christ in a landscape, on the right decapitation of John the Baptist, each with painted carvings ; with the altar closed, on the movable wings on the left John the Baptist, on the right St. Kunigunde, inscribed MF 1515 ; on the left of the inactive wings St. George, on the right St. Barbara, each under garlands; Predella with foliage and opposite dolphin-like animals.

Bells

The church originally had a peal consisting of two bells. The d '' bell was cast in 1884, the f '' bell in 1738. The latter was from the Nuremberg foundry Viktor Herold. In the course of renovation work in 1970, the extension of the ringing to three bells was considered. Since the d '' bell was impure in sound, this plan was discarded. The church council decided to buy four new bells, some of which were to be financed through the sale of the d '' bell. On September 17, 1971, the four bells were cast by the Rudolf Perner company in Passau. In contrast to the f '' bell, the new bells had images and inscriptions:

Pastor

The following pastors of the parish are known:

  • 1473 - ???? Johann Baldrauss
  • ???? - 1504 Engelhard Heymann
  • 1504-15 ?? Hermann Molitor
  • 1521–1530 Thomas Meyr
  • 15 ?? - 1545 Johann Beheim

literature

  • 500 years Reuth Church . Neuendettelsau 1973.
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 134-135 .
  • Manfred Keßler: The knight's seat in Dettelsau in the high and late Middle Ages . (Dissertation). Erlangen 2009, DNB  998940933 , p. 405-407 ( PDF; 11.1 MB ).
  • Eberhard Krauss: Exiles in the Evangelical Luth. Deanery Windsbach in the 17th century. A family history investigation (=  sources and research on Franconian family history . Volume 19 ). Society for Family Research in Franconia, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-929865-12-7 , p. 49-51 .
  • Georg Kuhr: Reuth near Neuendettelsau. Development and fall of a parish . In: ZbKG 42 . Association for Bavarian Church History, Nuremberg 1973, DNB  010080570 , p. 145-155 .
  • Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 272–276 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
  • 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. 68-70 .

Web links

Commons : St. Kunigund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neuses , Moosbach , Watzendorf , Wollersdorf , Aich and Mausendorf .
  2. ↑ quoted from G. Muck, Volume II, p. 272.
  3. ↑ quoted from G. Muck, Volume II, pp. 272f.
  4. ↑ GP Fehring, p. 134f.
  5. ↑ 500 years of Reuth Church , pp. 30–33.

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 5.3 "  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 59.8"  E