St. Maria (Großhaslach)

St. Maria in Großhaslach

Interior with pulpit altar, organ and galleries

"Bahrhaus": around 1500

Bahrhaus with baptismal font

St. Maria is a church named after Maria , the mother of Jesus, in Großhaslach . The parish belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Ansbach .

history

The first church (patronage unknown) is said to have been built on the site of an originally pagan sacrificial site that was located on a mountain spur. It was founded by Benedictine monks from the St. Gumbertuskloster Ansbach in the 8th century. Nothing is left of this church. In their place was in 12./13. A fortified church was built in the Romanesque style in the 17th century. The remains of a defensive wall and a Romanesque baptismal font, which is now in the baptistery, bear witness to this.

Today's parish church of St. Maria - originally a late Gothic church - was built towards the end of the 15th century on the site of the old church and consecrated in 1497. The Reformation was introduced around 1530. In 1783 the hall building was rebuilt, which was designed by the margravial court architect Johann David Steingruber .

Parish

St. Mary had the branches

• St. Kunigund (Reuth) (since 1453, before that directly to St. Maria parish, detachment in 1473) with Aich , Mausendorf , Moosbach , Neuses bW , Reuth , Triebendorf , Watzendorf , Wollersdorf
• St. Laurentius (Vestenberg) (detachment 1578) with noble mansion , Frohnhof and Vestenberg
• St. Martin (Bruckberg) (since 1935, before that directly to St. Maria parish, 1981 re-parish to St. Martin Kleinhaslach) with Bruckberg (Middle Franconia) , Reckersdorf and Neubruck
• St. Martin (Kleinhaslach) (in the Reformation period, parish to St. Andreas (Dietenhofen) ) with Kehlmünz and Kleinhaslach ,
• St. Matthäus (Markttriebendorf) (until 17th century, then a branch of St. Johannes (Bürglein) )

Bonnhof (at least until 1144), Gottmannsdorf (until 13th century), Großhaslach, Höfstetten , Ketteldorf , Neuhöflein , Steinbach and Wustendorf were directly subordinate to the parish .

Großhaslach is a stop on the Middle Franconian Way of St. James , which leads from Krakow via Prague to Nuremberg and continues via Roßtal, Heilsbronn, Großhaslach, Weihenzell and Häslabronn to Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

literature

• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 97-99 .
• 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. 301-307 .
• 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. 103-106 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Pfarrei Großhaslach , in: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery , Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Originally this chapel was a Bahrhaus (a medieval ossuary )
2. ↑ Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 272 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
3. ↑ H. Sommer, p. 108.
4. ↑ G. Muck, Vol. 2, p. 229.
5. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 303.

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 13 "  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 34.8"  E