St. Margaretha (Lehrberg)

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St. Margaretha, north side

St. Margaretha is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Lehrberg ( Deanery Ansbach ) named after St. Margaret of Antioch .

Parish

Lehrberg is one of the oldest parishes in the Rezattal. Already in 1057/59 the church was consecrated by the Eichstätter Bishop Gundekar II . The patronage was originally exercised by the provost of the Herrieden collegiate monastery and succeeded by the bishop of Eichstätt . In the late Middle Ages it is documented that the church was consecrated to the Blessed Virgin , Saint Margaret and the Holy Cross . All of the branch churches built in the early 15th century belonged to the parish

Since 1536 the patronage exercised the principality of Ansbach . The parish was assigned to the newly created Deanery Leutershausen . In the same year, Margrave Georg the Pious filled the pastoral position with the Ansbach chaplain, Johann Seeger, the first Protestant pastor.

Around 1800 the parish included Ballstadt , Birkach , Brünst (partially), Buhlsbach , Dauersmühle , Fritzmühle , Graefenbuch (south of the Sulzbach), Häslabronn , Hürbel am Rangen , Kohlmühle , Kurzendorf , Oberheßbach , Pulvermühle , Seemühle , Unterheßbach , Zailach and Ziegelhütte . A little later the newly founded fulling mill was added. St. Margaretha has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810. In 1812 Häslabronn and Kurzendorf were given to St. Ursula (Colmberg) and Gräfenbuch north of the Sulzbach was given by St. Maria (Obersulzbach) to St. Margaretha. In 1829 the remainder of Brünst, which until then had been parish to St. Johannes (Wernsbach near Ansbach) , was assigned to St. Margaretha.

Church building

The church, built in the 11th century, was renovated around 1300. In 1729/1731 it was rebuilt in margrave style while retaining the Gothic choir tower according to plans by Johann David Steingruber . In 1785 the two upper floors of the tower and the spire were placed on top of the choir tower. The portal porches were built at the end of the 19th century.

The choir tower in the east was built from sandstone blocks. The high tower basement has a round arched window in the lower area on the east side, a small rectangular window in the middle area on the east, north and south sides and in the upper area small rectangular windows in pairs on these sides. The first floor has small arched windows on these sides. The bell storey has an octagonal floor plan and on the west, east, south and north sides round-arched sound openings with a clock face and above a whitish hood with a two-part helmet. One of the four church bells was melted down in connection with the Second World War . The nave has an axis with portal vestibule in the middle on the north and south side, above a round window, left and right of it two window axes with round arched windows. On the west side there is another portal porch with a hipped roof. The nave has a gable roof that is hipped on the west side and two dormers on the north side .

The single-nave hall ends with a mirror vault . A gallery has been inserted on the north, south and west sides . In the south-east corner there is the pulpit with staircase, octagonal basket and wooden sounding cover. The baptismal font stands in the middle in front of the arched arcade that connects the hall with the choir. To the left (= north) of the choir arch there is an early Gothic sacrament niche from 1337 with a crown by Wimperg with quatrefoil and short pinnacles . The choir has a ribbed vault . In this there is an altar in the neo-Gothic style with an attachment, which was made in 1867.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 118-119 .
  • 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. 262-271 .
  • 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. 115-120 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d M. Jehle, p. 262.
  2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 267.
  3. ↑ So M. Jehle, p. 263. According to H. Sommer (Hrsg.), P. 115, she is said to have already received this patronage at the church consecration under Bishop Gundekar II.
  4. ↑ a b H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 115.

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 34.6 ″  E