St. Laurentius (Vestenberg)

St. Laurentius, east side

The former palace chapel

St. Laurentius is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after St. Laurentius in Vestenberg ( Dean's Office Windsbach ).

Parish

In 1465, Conrad von Eyb, the then lord of the Vestenberg castle, donated a benefit to hold mass in the castle chapel he had built . The original patronage was St. Sebastian . At first Vestenberg was supplied with noble mansion and Frohnhof by St. Maria (Großhaslach) . The Reformation entered Vestenberg as early as 1526. In 1578 St. Sebastian was raised to a parish. In 1732 a cemetery was laid out, until then the dead were buried in Großhaslach.

In 1809 Külbingen came to St. Sebastian from the parish of St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) . From 1810 St. Sebastian belonged to the dean's office in Ansbach . From 1970 the Trinity Church (Obereichenbach) was also looked after by the Vestenberg pastor. The parish of Vestenberg has been part of the Windsbach deanery since 2011. It currently has 450 parishioners.

Church building

In 1891 the St. Laurentius Church was built on the foundation walls of the castle of Lords v. Vestenberg built in neo-Gothic style from bricks with natural stone integration. The hall has a gable roof and four axes with pointed arched windows. In the east there is a 5/8 choir with three pointed arched windows and a half-hipped roof. In the west is a tower with a square floor plan and pointed helmet and pointed arch step portal on the west side. Above the portal is a rose window, above it two small pointed arch windows. The bell storey has pointed arch sound openings on each side, above the tower clock. The sacristy adjoins the south side of the choir. It has a gable roof, two rectangular windows on the south side and a rectangular portal on the east side.

The single-nave hall is connected to the choir on the east side by a pointed arcade. To the right of the arcade is a wooden pulpit with a staircase, a polygonal basket and a sound cover. In front of it is the font. An organ gallery has been drawn in on the west side.

A crucifix from the 18th century was taken over from the old castle chapel, which stands above the high altar in the choir. Furthermore, the altarpiece (an oil painting of the resurrection of Christ, framed by Tuscan column architecture with triangular gable from 1829) and the sacristy table (octagonal marble top in wooden frame with inlay, probably 1st half of the 19th century), both of which are now in the sacristy , and two epitaphs from the Eyb family (16th century), which are now housed in the tower floor. Otherwise, the interior is from the time the church was built.

Pastor

???? - 1496 Hans Bayer 1496 - ???? Ehrhardt Tritherfurth 1513 - ???? Johann Linhammer (...) Around 1578 0Kaspar Grimm Around 1584 0Benedikt Löffeladt Around 1602 0Linhard Zechen 1627–1630 Johann Paul Weik (er) sreiter 1631–1633 Bartholmäus Hatzky 1633-1653 vacancy 1653–1685 Johann Schmid (t) 1685–1691 Johann Lorbe (e) r 1691 -0000Friedrich Suchland 1691–1692 Johann Adam Daßdorf 1692–1695 Georg Rabel 1695–1699 Johann Paul Moll 1699–1701 Georg Lorenz Eber 1701–1711 Georg Christoph Bandel 1711–1719 Johann Valentin Papp 1719–1731 Ulrich Martin Polack 1731–1740 Johann Leonhard Kepner 1740–1747 Johann Michael Riedel 1747–1759 Johann Ludwig Schweigger 1759–1762 Johann Lorenz Stöcker 1762–1775 Johann Caspar Eichhorn 1775–1777 Andreas TobiasRehm 1778–1796 Johann Julius Carl Wirt (Würth) 1796–1803 Georg Christoph Karl Schulin 1803–1821 Johann Conrad Seger 1822–1825 Friedrich Wilhelm Lettenmayer 1825–1834 Johann Michael Waeglein 1834–1843 Moritz Adam Eckart 1844–1856 Johann Wilhelm Sharp!

1857 -0000Daniel Carl Roemheld 1857–1858 Ziegler candidate for preaching office 1858–1894 August Christian Ludwig Oppenrieder 1858 -0000Friedrich Gebhard 1866 -0000Wilhelm Blendinger 1866–1867 Karl Wissmüller 1867–1869 Johannes Zellfelder 1869–1870 Adolf Cornelius Friedrich Schott 1870–1871 Andreas Hoerger 1871–1872 August Puchta 1872–1874 Wilhelm Eichhorn 1874–1876 Theodor Zink 1876–1878 Wilhelm Rabus 1878–1880 Friedrich Mayer 1880–1883 ​​Gustav Braun 1884–1885 August Wilhelm Christian Meyer 1885–1890 Christian Caselmann 1890-1892 Heinrich Daum 1892–1894 Karl Waeglein 1894–1902 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Goes 1903–1912 Ludwig Johann Paul Haessler 1913–1916 Johannes Georg Roth 1917–1927 Ernst Balthasar Keutner 1927-1940 vacancy 1940–1953 Wilhelm Oppenrieder 1954–1962 Georg Grampes 1963–1970 Georg Leistner 1970–1981 Hermann Klotz 1981–1984 vacancy 1984–1986 Helmut Weinberger 1986 - ???? Lienhard Anschütz ???? - 0000Ulrike Hansen

literature

• Hermann Dallhammer: Petersaurach: Documentation of a large community . Petersaurach 1996, DNB  1107020085 , p. 179-181, 192-196 .
• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 145 .
• 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. 307-308 .
• Richard E. Schmidt, Johann Michael Wäglein: History of the parish Vestenberg . Vestenberg 2008.
• 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. 144-147 .

Web links

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

• Vestenberg on the website dekanat-windsbach.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 307f. According to H. Dallhammer, p. 179, the Reformation entered Vestenberg in 1528.
2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 307.
3. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 147.
4. ↑ Vestenberg on the website dekanat-windsbach.de
5. ↑ Because of a long, deep nervous suffering, a total of 16 parish vicars were assigned to him to support and represent.

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 38 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 15.8"  E