St. Martin (Degersheim)

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The St. Martin Church, 2011

The St. Martin Church ( listen ? / I ) is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Degersheim , a district of the Heidenheim market in the Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . Since December 14, 2013 it has belonged to the parish of Hechlingen in the Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office in Heidenheim . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-140-36 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The previous buildings of the church are also registered as a ground monument (number: D-5-7030-0138). The postal address is Hauptstrasse 8. Audio file / audio sample

18th century tombstone on the south side of the church

History and description of the building

Lecture Cross, St. Martin Degersheim
Inside the church

The rights to the church in Degersheim have been with Heidenheim Monastery since ancient times , as evidenced since 1480. At that time the church patron was St. Wunibald . In 1518, however, St. Martin was named as the church patron. The church was supplied by the Heidenheim monastery and later by the chaplain in the Heidenheim Propstei Mariabrunn ; the chaplain or provost was also pastor of Degersheim. In 1533 the place was evangelically supplied by the Reformation and continued to be supplied by the Mariabrunn provost until 1570.

The current Margrave Church was rebuilt in 1767 according to plans by the Ansbach court architect Johann David Steingruber, using the older tower on the east side as a choir tower church; the tower, which still houses the old choir, was given a polygonal upper floor, which is closed off by a tent roof and houses three bells. The west facade is designed as a show facade with a central projection and rustic pilaster strips . Inside, the altar, pulpit and choir gallery are arranged vertically on the wall facing the old choir room , the nave has three galleries. Among other things, the church shows a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper . On the south side of the church, a tomb commemorates Margareta Barbara Schülerin, née Müllerin, who fell "at the unfortunate hand of her own spouse", who on February 5, 1797, the 25-year-old and mother of five underage children was "killed by a murderous shot" killed.

In the church a memorial plaque dated August 18, 1884 commemorates the turmoil of the Thirty Years War . It is signed by the church council:

“In memory of August 14, 1634. On this day the Degersheim parish was attacked by a division of the war people of Emperor Ferdinand, who were besieging the city of Nördlingen. The whole village was destroyed, all property looted, the corridors devastated and the population badly mistreated. Those who still had the strength to emigrate fled, the others died partly of the plague and partly of hunger. Pastor Peter Geuder, born in Uffenheim, who had provided the parish of Degersheim since 1601, i.e. 33 years, was shot by the war men and had to remain unburied until August 29, because he was due to the day and night of looting and tyranny of the The people of war could not have been buried. It was not until 1636 that two earlier families, the brothers Georg and Andreas Lutz and Leonhard Sauer, settled in the previously completely deserted place, until a total of 10 households came together again in 1648. From 1671 on, Degersheim again had its own pastor. For the family of that time as a lasting memory, the descendants as a serious warning. "

organ

1767 probably only acquired after 1800 organ (from organ builder Eichmüller ?)

1863 Bellows repairs by Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer

1864 Installation of a used but renovated factory by Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer. The origin is unknown.

1910 New building by Steinmeyer with 10 registers on two manuals

The current organ was installed in 1990 by the company Koch from Feuchtwangen and has 13  stops on 2 manuals with pedal.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
  • Organ monuments Middle Franconia, Hermann Fischer / Theodor Wohnhaas, page 99, Ulrike Schneider Rensch Orgelbauverlag, 2011, ISBN 3-921848-08-3

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin , Heidenheim monument list at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on November 24, 2015)
  2. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, pp. 92, 96
  3. ↑ 1250 years Heidenheim, p. 230f.
  4. ↑ Kunstdenkmäler, p. 57
  5. ↑ Schrenk / Zink, p. 30f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 44.7 ″  E