St. Laurentius (Elpersdorf near Ansbach)

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Church tower and entrance, north side of the parish church of St. Laurentius
West side with ox eyes and arched windows

St. Laurentius is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after the martyr Laurentius of Rome in Elpersdorf near Ansbach ( Deanery Ansbach ).

history

St. Laurentius was originally a branch of St. Nikolaus (Schalkhausen) , but had an early mass with its own church caretakers as early as the 14th century. The patronage was originally exercised by the provost of the Gumbertuss pen . From 1535 St. Laurentius had the first Protestant early messenger. The patronage was now exercised by the Principality of Ansbach . The parish was assigned to the Leutershausen deanery . In 1598 St. Laurentius was raised to parish church . A tavern fight between the Oberdautenwindener Protestants and the Unterdautenwindener Catholics, which took place in the same year , is said to have contributed significantly to this . During and after the Thirty Years War , the parishes of Elpersdorf (1632–1671) and Neunkirchen (1658–1671) were combined with Schalkhausen, and from 1671 to 1700 the parishes of Elpersdorf and Neunkirchen.

Around 1800 the parish included the villages of Oberdauten winds , Esbach , Herrieden , Höfen , Höfstetten , Hohenberg , Höllmühle , Käferbach , Kurzendorf , Liegenbach , Mittelbach , Oberdombach , Seebronn , Steinbach , Windmühle and Wüstenbruck . St. Laurentius has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810. In 1951, the Christ Church was built in Herrieden as a branch to supply the Protestants who lived there. In the early 1990s, there were 900 parishioners there, which led to the Christ Church being elevated to a parish in the period that followed.

Since 2006, St. Laurentius has been part of the entire parish of Ansbach . The parish currently has 1000 members.

Church building

Of the original church, only the choir floor of the late Gothic choir tower , the sacristy to the east with a 5/8 end (marked 1426) and the southern longitudinal wall of the hall remain. They were all built from quarry stone with corner blocks.

The church tower has a square floor plan and in the choir floor on the east, south and north sides two small pointed arch windows . The bell storey consists of half-timbering and has two rectangular windows on all sides with a clock face in between. The tower ends with a pyramid roof .

The nave with its extensions was rebuilt in 1907. To the northwest, a tower with an octagonal floor plan and an octagonal pyramid roof is integrated. To the southwest and northeast, polygonal , single-storey entrance rooms with hipped roofs are connected .

The roof structure of the nave is complex. It is hipped towards the west, has three dormers on the south side and a hipped roof on the north side . On the south and north sides there are three axes of windows in different shapes and arrangements. On the west side there are two ox eyes, each with an arched window above.

Interior

In the choir from the stands sandstone blocks built altar . Behind on the east wall there is a fully plastic column architecture with pieces of entablature (two putti on it) and segmented gable as well as a crowning cartouche with crown, cross and ray eye. The wood is marbled or gilded. Laterally close Akanthusschnitzereien on. In the middle of the structure there is an altarpiece that St. Represents Last Supper . This is labeled 1774 on the reverse. The pulpit with staircase is on the south side of the hall.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 92 .
  • 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. 151-153 .
  • 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. 78-84 .
  • Gottfried Stieber: Elpersdorf . In: Historical and topographical news from the Principality of Brandenburg-Onolzbach . Johann Jacob Enderes, Schwabach 1761, p. 340-341 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 152.
  2. ↑ a b c M. Jehle, p. 151.
  3. ↑ a b M. Jehle, p. 152.
  4. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 82.
  5. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 153. According to G. Stieber, p. 341, St. Laurentius had been its own parish since 1535 at the latest and only in the years 1558–1598 and 1633–1671 a branch of Schalkhausen and 1671–1700 a branch of Neunkirchen .
  6. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), Pp. 83f.
  7. ^ Website of the Laurentius congregation , Laurentius-elpersdorf.de, accessed on December 27, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 41.6 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 56.9 ″  E