St. Margareta (Windsbach)

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St. Margaretakirche in Windsbach seen from Kolbenstrasse

St. Margaret is a martyr after Margaret of Antioch named Church of the Lutheran parish Windsbach that the deanery Windsbach belongs.

history

It is documented that Bishop Otto von Eichstätt consecrated a Margaret Church in Windsbach in 1183 . The fortified church was built in place of the old wooden church that had probably become dilapidated. In 1317 it was enlarged. In 1728/30 the structure of the tower was retained under the building management of Carl Friedrich von Zocha according to plans by Johann David Steingruber and a fundamental new building in the simple margrave style with a cruciform floor plan, using stones from the old church of St. Otto (Hergersbach) . Typical of the margrave style are the spacious galleries that protrude far into the church on so-called Tuscan columns. Only the pulpit is original from the furnishing .

Ceiling fresco traditionally depicting the four evangelists.

The otherwise unadorned ceiling is adorned above the crossing point with a large fresco depicting the four evangelists with the usual evangelist symbols. Seen from the altar above the lion, which stands for Mark, on the left below Johannes (eagle), on the right Matthew (human) and below Lukas (bull). The border of the central circle quotes the mission “Go into all the world and teach all peoples”.

Chandelier of the Windsbach town church St. Margareta.

The large chandelier hangs from the center.

A comprehensive renovation took place in 1947.

Parish

The parish of Windsbach is a so-called original parish, which must have existed before the year 1000. In 1530 the parish became Evangelical-Lutheran under pastor Hans Rumpf. The community currently has 3,092 members (as of 2009) and includes the following locations:

Windsbach originally had four branches, of which St. Otto (Hergersbach) , 1617 St. Jakobus (Dürrenmungenau) and 1730 St. Georg (Bertholdsdorf) and St. Andreas (Wassermungenau) became independent. St. Marien (Winkelhaid) was probably also a branch of St. Margareta.

Until 1807, individual properties in Bechhofen , Haag and Wernsbach also belonged to the parish. In the course of a so-called purification , which the Ansbach Chamber ordered in 1807, these properties came to St. Nikolai (Neuendettelsau) .

The Gottesruhkapelle and the Christenruh cemetery chapel belong to the parish .

Pastor

  • 1530–1539 Hans Rumpf
  • 1540–1567 Kaspar Grimm
  • 1567–1577 Peter Braun
  • 1577–1584 Konrad Ley
  • 1584–1592 Johann Lang
  • 1592–1604 Johann Wagner
  • 1605–1612 Andreas Schrotzberger
  • 1613–1623 Heinrich Förster
  • 1623-1634 vacancy
  • 1632–1634 Johann Schäfer
  • 1635–1640 Nikolaus Sutor (cobbler)
  • 1641 -0000Michael Wenig
  • 1641–1659 Antonius Christophorus
  • 1659–1667 Adam Hahn
  • 1667-1687 Sebald Cramer
  • 1688–1728 Johann Engelhardt
  • 1729–1734 Gottfried Vocke
  • 1734–1736 Johann Hallfelder
  • 1737–1748 Volkmar Kiefhuber
  • 1748–1755 Christoph Steinmann
  • 1756–1775 Georg Meintel, Dr. theol.
  • 1776–1783 Conrad Ebersherger
  • 1784–1793 Friedrich Pelican
  • 1794–1800 Jakob Fries
  • 1801–1809 Gottlieb Vocke
  • 1809–1823 Johann Adolf Rudolf Karl Sturm
  • 1823–1831 Philipp Oppenrieder
  • 1831–1847 Christian Philipp Heinrich Brandt
  • 1848–1856 Eduard Bachmann
  • 1856–1875 Johann Tobias David Immanuel Paul Müller
  • 1876-1892 Josef Schlier
  • 1892–1908 Adolf Elsperger
  • 1908–1912 Adolf Hermann
  • 1912–1934 Friedrich Keil
  • 1935–1947 Hermann Bohrer
  • 1947–1968 Heinz Seifert
  • 1968–1984 Hans-Georg Meyer
  • 1984–2001 Günther Zeilinger
  • 2001–2012 Horst Heissmann
  • 2012– 0000 Dean Klaus Schlicker / Pastor Heimtraud Walz

literature

  • Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 144-182 .
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 154-156 .
  • Horst Heissmann (Ed.): ... in the midst of you: 200 years of the Windsbach deanery . History, Parishes & Institutions. Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Neuendettelsau 2009, ISBN 978-3-87214-801-8 , p. 80-85 .
  • 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. 174-181 .
  • 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. 76-88 u. passim .
  • 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. 94-100 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 171.
  2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 174.

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 34.6 ″  E