St. Martin (Kleinhaslach)

St. Martin, south side

St. Martin, north side

graveyard

St. Martin is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after St. Martin of Tours in Kleinhaslach ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

From the St. Martin's patronage, popular at the time, it is derived that St. Martin was the pastoral church of a Carolingian crown estate in the 10th century. Against this, however, speaks that 1) the place Kleinhaslach due to its unfavorable location and poor soil conditions a late settlement of the 12th / 13th centuries. Century is that 2) no branches of St. Martin are known, but vice versa, according to the documents received, it has always been itself branch, and that 3) there are almost no properties at the benefice , but only a moderate tithe from the Dorf and a slightly larger one from the Warzfelden branch . 4) a parish Kleinhaslach is not listed in the Würzburg diocesan register from around 1461/65. 5) The awarding of Martin's patronage was not only very popular during the Carolingian era, but also in the late Middle Ages.

St. Martin is said to have been founded by Heilsbronn Monastery and originally a branch of St. Maria (Großhaslach) and only since the Reformation of St. Andreas (Dietenhofen) . It has been documented since 1526 that Evangelical-Lutheran services were held in Kleinhaslach. Although it was a branch of St. Andreas, St. Martin had a certain degree of independence. Until the middle of the 16th century the place had its own early messner position , in the 16-point report of 1608 by the Heilsbronn monastery office, Kleinhaslach is still referred to as a pastor, but with the note that it no longer had its own pastor.

Around 1820 it formed a parish with St. Mauritius (Warzfelden) and St. Maria Magdalena (Seubersdorf) . On December 19, 1842, St. Martin was elevated to a parish. Kehlmünz belongs to the parish of St. Martin . St. Mauritius supplies Adelmannsdorf , Beutellohe , Kleinhabersdorf and Warzfelden. Since 1981 the parish of St. Martin (Bruckberg) with its suburbs Reckersdorf and Neubruck belongs to the parish of Kleinhaslach. Seubersdorf became a branch of St. Andreas in Dietenhofen again at a later date.

Church building

The Chorturmkirche St. Martin is located in the northwest in an elevated position surrounded by a walled cemetery. The late Gothic choir tower in the east dates from the 15th century. It has two upper floors and is closed by an eight-sided pointed helmet. The sacristy is connected to the north and the pointed roof hall building with two pointed dormer windows, arched windows and portal in the south. The portal is marked with the year 1714. The interior is from the 18th century and is in the Baroque style. It is single-nave, has a north-west gallery and an organ gallery in the west. In the south-east corner of the ship is the pulpit with a polygonal basket and sound cover. A high altar, which is marked 1766, is in the choir. There are late Gothic wall paintings on the choir walls. The church was renovated in 1770 and 1912.

literature

• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 117-118 .
• 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. 309-317 .
• Josef Kollar (Ed.): Market Dietenhofen . 1985, p. 153 .
• 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. 107-110 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Weigel: Foundations and beginnings of church organization at the middle Rezat. Ztschr. F. Bavarian K. Gesch., Year 16, 1 ff.
2. ↑ Georg Rusam: Foundations and Beginnings of Church Organization at the Middle Rezat , in: Journal for Bavarian Church History , Volume 17, 1949, p. 97.
3. ↑ ^{a b} M. Jehle, p. 309.
4. ↑ 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. 229–231 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).
5. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 310.
6. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 311f.
7. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 311.
8. ↑ H. Sommer, p. 108.
9. ^ GP Fehring, p. 117f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 43.8 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 35.2"  E