St. Leonhard (Götteldorf)

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Götteldorf, St. Leonhard

St. Leonhard is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after St. Leonhard of Limoges in Götteldorf ( Deanery Ansbach ).

St. Leonhard was built on a hill in the late 13th century as a fortified church and was a branch of St. Andreas in Dietenhofen from the beginning . The church, built from sandstone blocks, has a two-storey choir tower with a four-sided tent roof (east) with a pointed roof hall (west) and sacristy (north, added in 1584) and is surrounded by a wall including the cemetery.

The choir has a square floor plan and is closed off by a simple ribbed vault . It is connected to the sacristy by a pointed arch and to the hall by a round arch opening. The Brandenburg coat of arms can be found on the east side of the first floor of the tower. On the outside entrance of the sacristy there is a Leonrod coat of arms with the year 1584.

The interior of the hall is flat, single-nave and without galleries. It has two pointed arch windows on the south side and is accessible through a late Romanesque step portal. There was originally a high altar, a side altar and niche altars. On the high altar stood shrine figures of Saints Leonhard and Johannes, on the niche altars there were late Gothic figures of saints from the 15th century made of linden wood. With the arrival of Martin Luther's teaching in 1524, the side and niche altars were removed and the figures of saints were hung in the sacristy. The font was donated in 1730, the pulpit dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century.

The church was renovated from 1968 to 1977. The roof, the inner and outer walls and floors had to be renovated. The wooden figures have also been restored and repositioned. During the renovation work, the altar plate of the side altar was also found, which was also restored. A painting with Mary, part of a scene of the Annunciation, was also uncovered, which can be attributed to Michael Wolgemut and which can be dated to 1490.

The parish currently has 110 parishioners.

literature

  • Italo Bacigalupo and Johannes Tröbs with e. Working group d. Dekanates (Ed.): Evang [elisch] -Luth [erisches] Dekanat Neustadt an der Aisch (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1986, ISBN 3-87214-210-0 , p. 126 .
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 96-97 .
  • Josef Kollar (Ed.): Market Dietenhofen . 1985, p. 160-161 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Originally the parish of Dietenhofen - and thus also St. Leonhard - belonged to the deanery Neustadt an der Aisch . The change took place in the 1980s at the earliest.

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '24.8 "  N , 10 ° 37' 37.2"  E