St. Margaretha (Rügland)

St. Margaretha, south side

Interior view with a view to the east

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

Parish

Whether St. Margaretha is a branch of St. Laurentius (Flachslanden) cannot be clearly proven. The patronage was originally exercised by the Lords of Vestenberg . For the year 1426 it is documented that a perpetual mass was donated for St. Margaretha by Craft von Vestenberg zu Rügland. This was financed by Zehnten, Gülten and Hintersassen in Oberschlauersbach , Lentersdorf and Buch . In 1427 the same chapel furnished the St. Kilian and Klara chapel (Andorf) with the delivery of goods in Andorf , Frickendorf , Stockheim and Unterstbibert . St. Kilian and Klara was actually a branch of St. Bartholomäus (Unternbibert) , but the preacher was provided by the respective Rügland castle lords. Only after the Thirty Years War was St. Kilian and Clare taken care of by the preacher from Unternbibert.

The Reformation was introduced in 1550, but St. Margaretha remained free of deanship. From 1584 to 1984 the gentlemen from Crailsheim zu Rügland exercised the patronage. The principality of Brandenburg-Ansbach has held church sovereignty since July 7, 1796 . Since then, the parish has belonged to the Leutershausen deanery .

Around 1800 the parish included Lindach , Pilsmühle , Rosenberg and Rügland . St. Margaretha has been part of the Ansbach deanery since 1810. In 1827 Haasgang was repared from St. Jakob (Weihenzell) to St. Margaretha, in 1839 the Ebenhof of St. Laurentius (Flachslanden) . After 1840, but before 1861, Ruppersdorf also came from St. Laurentius to Rügland.

Since 1980 the parish of St. Bartholomäus (Unternbibert) has been supplied by the Rügland pastor.

Church building

The present church was built in 1754 by master bricklayer Jakob Wallgreuth from Ansbach in margrave style. Nothing of the previous buildings (12th century and 1486/87) has been preserved. Only eight epitaphs from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century have been adopted.

The tower in the west has a square floor plan. The entrance hall is entered through an arched portal in the west. On the south side, three arched windows are arranged one above the other. The bell storey has beveled corners, has plastered fields and has round-arched sound openings with dials on all sides. The tower is closed by a welsh hood. The nave also has plastered fields and rusticated corner pilasters. It has three axes of high round arched windows on the north and south sides, and underneath an arched window or portals in the middle. There are two rectangular windows on the east side. It has a gable roof that is hipped towards the east, two axes with hipped dormers on the north and south sides and two bat dormers on the south side. An extension with a hipped roof connects to the east.

The single-nave hall closes with a flat ceiling. A double gallery, which rests on Tuscan columns, has been drawn in on the west, north and south sides. There is also an organ gallery on the east side. 44 depictions of the life of Christ are attached to the balustrades. The mansion gallery is on the west side. The pulpit altar is on the east side, in front of it the baptismal font, left and right of it seating for the gentlemen. The entire interior is from the year the church was rebuilt.

In 1954 and 1987 the church was renovated.

literature

• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 134-136 .
• 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. 285-287 .
• 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. 120-126 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} M. Jehle, p. 286.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} M. Jehle, p. 285.
3. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 277.
4. ↑ So M. Jehle, p. 286. According to H. Sommer (Hrsg.), P. 122, the Reformation was introduced in 1527. Hans Sonntag would have been the first Protestant pastor.
5. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), Pp. 120f.
6. ↑ Eduard Vetter (Ed.): Statistical handbook and address book of Middle Franconia in the Kingdom of Bavaria . Self-published, Ansbach 1846, p. 42 ( digitized version ). Here Ruppersdorf still parishes to Flachslanden.
   
7. ^ Joseph Heyberger, Chr. Schmitt, v. Wachter: Topographical-statistical manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria with an alphabetical local dictionary . In: K. Bayer. Statistical Bureau (Ed.): Bavaria. Regional and folklore of the Kingdom of Bavaria . tape 5 . Literary and artistic establishment of the JG Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, Munich 1867, Sp. 985 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10374496-4 ( digitized version ). Here Ruppersdorf parishes to Rügland.
   
8. ↑ H. Sommer (Ed.), P. 124.

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 3 "  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 10.8"  E