St. Marien (Winkelhaid)

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St. Marien, east side

St. Marien is a chapel named after Maria in Winkelhaid . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Andreas (Wassermungenau) in the Windsbach deanery .

St. Marien was probably a branch church of St. Margareta (Windsbach) . It may have been built in the early 12th century, as indicated by a stone walled in in house no. 13 with the year 1103. In 1528 St. Marien became Protestant. The church was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and only poorly repaired afterwards. From then on, church services were only held on the day of church dedication, the Sunday after Bartholomew (August 24), and at weddings and funeral sermons. The proceeds of a ram forest were available to pay the clergy. The church consecration for the clergy and the sacristan was financed by the proceeds from the church. In 1718 the cost of repairing the roof was estimated. Since they would have amounted to 182 guilders, it was not carried out. In 1733 part of the roof finally collapsed. When the walls threatened to collapse in 1802, the church was demolished by order of the Prussian War and Domain Chamber Ansbach. The original church was 17 meters long and 11 meters wide.

In 1875, the citizens of Winkelhaid built St. Mary's Chapel in the neo-Gothic style on the same spot . The building, made of sandstone blocks, has a rectangular floor plan, a gable roof with a bell tower as a turret on the east side. On the east side there is also the pointed arch portal, to the left and right of which there are candlesticks, above a clock face. On the north and south sides there is an axis with pointed arched windows. A bell was installed in the bell tower, which was bought by the municipality of Hechlingen . This bell, made in the 15th century, bears the names of the four evangelists in Gothic minuscule letters.

The chapel can accommodate 15 to 20 people. It was last extensively renovated in 2001.

Baptismal services are held here, as well as the church consecration service on the 2nd and 3rd Sunday in August and some devotions.

literature

  • Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 297-298 .
  • Karl Gröber, Felix Mader : City and district of Schwabach (=  The art monuments of Bavaria . Middle Franconia 7). R. Oldenburg, Munich 1939, DNB  366496239 , p. 420 .
  • 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. 70 .
  • 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. 184 .
  • 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. 83 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to K. Gröber, p. 420, the bell was made around 1400, according to K. Dunz, p. 297, around 1450.

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 41.7 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 8.7 ″  E