St. Matthäus (Markttriebendorf)

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St. Matthew in Markttriebendorf

St. Matthäus is a church named after the evangelist Matthäus in the village of Markttriebendorf ( Dean's Office Windsbach ).

Parish

Until the 17th century St. Matthäus was a branch of St. Maria in Großhaslach , since then it has been a branch of St. Johannes Bürglein .

Four services are celebrated annually, three services at the same time as the markets previously held in Markttriebendorf , and another service for the consecration on the day of St. Matthaei (September 21).

Building history

The church was probably built from sandstone blocks in the late Romanesque style in the 13th century . In 1606 the church was renovated, but badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . Restoration did not begin until 1674. The roof and the windows were changed and the galleries moved in. Another renovation took place in 1833.

Building description

The three- story choir tower in the east has an arched window on the east side of the choir floor, and an embrasure on the first floor, also on the east side. The bell storey has trusses on the east and south sides and three rectangular sound openings each. A clock face is attached to the south side. However, the movement from 1905 is no longer functional. On the bell floor is an early Gothic bell from around 1300, which was most likely made in a Nuremberg workshop. It has a weight of approx. 90 kg and a diameter of 539 mm. Their strike tone is G sharp " , the fifth is clearly deepened, undertones, prime and third are exactly in tune. On it there is a relief with the names of the four evangelists and the three wise men Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar with the misspellings" JOHAMMES "," BALTAAR "And" NELCHIOR ". The yoke to which it is attached is probably from the 17th century, the trestle chair, however, is a little more recent. The church tower ends with a four-sided pyramid roof on which a weathercock is planted.

The hall building in the west was originally flatter, as can be seen from a remnant on the west side. In 1674 a steeper Gothic saddle roof was built, which ends at the height of the bell storey. The hall has three window axes. The western axis has a slightly raised rectangular window on the south and north side, the other two axes have arched windows on the south and rectangular windows on the north. The arched portal is located on the south side under the rectangular window.

The single-nave hall has a flat wooden ceiling that was renewed in the 1860s. A wooden gallery from the 18th century has moved in on the south and west sides. The pulpit and stalls, kept simple in style, date from the Baroque period . On the east side there is a round arch portal with profiled fighters , which connects the hall with the choir. The choir is barrel vaulted. There is a piscina on the north side . The altar is a medieval stone canteen with a well-walled reliquary niche at the front. On the east side of the choir there are four Gothic wooden figures of the evangelists. Another Gothic wooden figure of Mary is in the nave. From 1909 to 1973 the figures were housed in the Johanneskirche in Bürglein.

The baptismal font is on the left in front of the arched portal. It was made of wood in 1994 by Hans Schottner ( Gottmannsdorf ). The three foot sections are modeled on the side sections of the benches. An octagonal baptismal font with a copper bowl rests on it.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 126-127 .
  • Hans Gernert: The St. Matthew in Markttriebendorf . In: Deanery info for the congregations in the Evangelical Dean's District Windsbach . Spring, 2014, p. 2-3 .
  • 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. 38-39 .
  • 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. 46 .

Web links

Commons : St. Matthew  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 the modern era (=  Middle Franconian Studies . Volume 20 ). Historical Association for Middle Franconia, Ansbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-771-9 , p. 303 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 34.6 "  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 36.8"  E