St. Lambertus (Eyb)

St. Lambertus in Eyb

St. Lambertus is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Eyb ( Deanery Ansbach ) named after St. Lambert of Liège .

Parish

According to the Salbuch of the parish of Eyb, a small, square Käppelein was built in 1043 near the ancestral seat of the Lords of Eyb . According to Georg Rusam, St. Lambertus was originally a branch of St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) , then a separate church of the Lords of Eyb. However, the fact that the St. Gumbertus Abbey held the right of patronage speaks against this . A dependency on St. Johannis (Ansbach) is more likely . Since 1387 St. Lambertus was an independent parish, but without its own pastor. At that time the mass was read by the vicar of the Sebastian Altar of St. Gumbertus.

In 1460, Duke Louis IX attacked. of Bavaria and his allies the Ansbach margrave Albrecht Achilles and destroyed the castle and the chapel in Eyb. In 1480 the church was rebuilt and larger in the late Gothic style. It was equipped with three altars, the main altar was dedicated to Mary, the patronage remained Lambertus. At that time, however, the parish fair was the Sunday after St. Laurentius (August 10th).

In 1528 the Reformation found its way into the Ansbacher Land - and thus also into Eyb. The principality of Ansbach held church sovereignty after the Reformation, the parish was assigned to the newly created deanery of Leutershausen . At this time (1536) the parish was also supplied by a vicar from St. Gumbertstift. In 1563 St. Lambertus got its own pastor, Caspar Beck, who lived on site in the parsonage that was bought at the same time.

From 1635 to 1658 the parishes of St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) , St. Bartholomäus (Brodswinden) and St. Lambertus had to be connected because of the population loss caused by the Thirty Years War. In 1658 St. Alban regained independence, and in 1668 finally St. Lambertus.

After St. Lambertus the places Aumühle , Schockenmühle and Untereichenbacher Mühle were parish. In 1808/09, Kaltengreuth was repared from St. Johannis and Untereichenbach from St. Alban to St. Lambertus. The eastern part of Ansbach is also part of the parish.

St. Lambertus has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810. Today is the first Sunday in August church fair Sunday.

Church building

In 1749/1750, the church was rebuilt in margrave style according to plans by the margravial court architect Johann David Steingruber , leaving the old tower basement in place . The nave has a 5/8 end and a hipped roof in the east . In the west there is a vestibule with a hipped roof and portal on the south side. The nave has five axes of rectangular windows on the north and south sides, above the first, third and fifth axes an ox-eye . Two grave slabs of the Aumüller and Wassergrave from 1698 and 1739 are walled in on the south side. The inscription panels are framed with richly sculptural coats of arms, putti and foliage. The 5/8 end of the nave has a rectangular window on the north and south side, above an ox's eye, on the east side a simple crucifix is ​​attached. The tower adjoins the north side of the nave before the 5/8 end. It has a square floor plan on the choir floor. The cross-rib vaulted choir is now used as a sacristy. There are two floors with a smaller octagonal floor plan. The bell projectile has alternating arcuate sound openings and dials on the sides. The top of the tower has a lantern end with a Welscher hood. To the south of the church - surrounded by a churchyard wall - is part of the cemetery. There are two 18th century tombstones on the western wall of the cemetery.

The single-nave hall has a flat ceiling with stucco frame. A simple wooden gallery has been drawn in on the west, north and east sides. The altar with top was donated by the wife of the town bailiff Grüb. The altarpiece shows four passion scenes ( Jesus in prayer in the garden of Gethsemane , Jesus' demonstration after the flagellation , the carrying of the cross , the crucifixion ), the frame bears selected passages from the Bible. During the interior renovation in 1869, the altar was replaced by a new one by the Ansbach church painter and carver Franz Herterich. In 1970 this was reversed and this altar was placed in the sacristy. On the gallery above the altar is the church organ, which was replaced in 1970 by an organ from the Steinmeyer organ builder from Oettingen. The stalls also come from this time. The pulpit and font were made at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. The pulpit is attached to the south wall, the font is in front of it. In the west porch there is an epitaph from 1685. The church was last renovated in 1993/94.

literature

• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 92-93 .
• 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. 138-141 .
• Georg Rusam: Basics and beginnings of church organization at the middle Rezat . In: Journal for Bavarian Church History . tape 17 . Verlag die Egge, Nuremberg 1949, p. 95–96 ( digitized from WikiCommons [PDF]).
• 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. 72-78 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Eyb , in: Georg Rusam: Basics and beginnings of church organization at the middle Rezat  - sources and full texts

• st-lambertus-eyb.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 73; GP Fehring, p. 92.
2. ↑ G. Rusam, p. 95; M. Jehle, p. 140.
3. ↑ ^{a b} M. Jehle, p. 138.
4. ↑ So M. Jehle, p. 138. According to G. Rusam, p. 96, St. Lambertus became an independent parish in 1482 and according to H. Sommer (ed.), P. 74, 1480.
5. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), Pp. 73f.
6. ↑ ^{a b} H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 74.
7. ↑ So M. Jehle, p. 140. According to H. Sommer, p. 74, Eyb is said to have been associated with the parish of Saxony at this time (1530).
8. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 140.
9. ↑ According to M. Jehle, p. 138, Untereichenbach is said to have also belonged to St. Johannis, but elsewhere (p. 153) to St. Alban. This also corresponds to the information in Georg Rusam: History of the parish of Saxony and the associated places . C. Brügel & Sohn, Ansbach 1940, DNB  575937491 , p. 17 ( digitized version at WikiCommons [PDF]).
10. ↑ church ( Memento of the original dated May 24, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website st-lambertus-eyb.de 
11. ^ GP Fehring, p. 92f.
12. ^ GP Fehring, p. 92.
13. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), Pp. 75f.
14. ^ GP Fehring, p. 93.

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '47.7 "  N , 10 ° 35' 57.6"  E