St. Mauritius (Gleizendorf)

St. Mauritius in Gleizendorf

St. Mauritius is a church located in Gleizendorf and named after Saint Mauritius , which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Peter in Petersaurach ( Dean's Office Windsbach ).

history

The church, which dates from the 13th century, was first mentioned by name in 1435 in a sealed parchment letter, in which it says that the Lords of Heideck had donated this church with the stipulation that the pastor of St. Peter should hold a service there once a week . The service was provided by the pastor Peter Lössing in Petersaurach.

The church was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War . It was not restored until 1717. The furnishings ( gallery , pulpit and crucifix ) also date from this period . The baptismal font dates from 1781. The church originally also had a cemetery .

One of the two bells had to be turned off during the Second World War. It was only replaced by a new bell in 1954. From 1982 to 1984 the church was extensively renovated inside and out, and from 1984 to 1991 the original church courtyard wall was rebuilt. In 1993 the church received a saint figure of Mauritius carved by Helmuth Rödel , and in 2013 a new organ.

St. Mauritius is not an independent parish. Sunday services are celebrated every two weeks, as well as on all major public holidays and casual services (wedding, baptism).

Building description

St. Mauritius is a choir tower church made of sandstone blocks . The hall building in the west has two axes of arched windows on the south and north sides, the arched portal on the north side. It ends with a gable roof. The two-storey choir tower has an arched window on the east side, small arched sound openings on all sides in the bell storey and closes with an octagonal pointed helmet.

The single-aisled hall has a wooden gallery on the west and partly on the south side. The east side is connected to the choir by a round arch portal. In this is the altar , a medieval stone canteen with a simple late Gothic predella , above it a wooden crucifix from the Baroque period and two late Gothic figures of saints, probably from the end of the 15th century. The left figure represents Mary , the right Elisabeth . Crucifix and figures of saints were attached to the south wall until 1984. To the left and right of the altar there are choir stalls, probably from the 18th century.

The pulpit with sound cover is located in the southeast corner of the hall. It has a polygonal basket with hints of blind arcades and entablature, which stands on a twisted column. The chalice-shaped baptismal font stands in front of the arched portal to the left of the axis. It is made of sandstone and is marked 1781. It is octagonal and has angel heads on four sides. The wooden lid is of a later date. The wooden benches in the nave probably date from the 18th century.

literature

• Helmut Cwikla: The St. Mauritius Church in Gleizendorf . In: Deanery info for the congregations in the Evangelical Dean's District Windsbach . Autumn, 2013, p. 2-3 .
• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 96 .
• Hermann Dallhammer: Petersaurach; Documentation of a large community . Petersaurach 1996, p. 88-89 .
• 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. 65-66 .
• 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. 170 .
• 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. 75-79 .

Web links

Commons : St. Mauritius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Heißmann (Ed.), P. 65.
2. ↑ G. Zeilinger (Ed.), P. 79.
3. ^ H. Heissmann (Ed.), P. 66.
4. ↑ H. Cwikla, p. 3.
5. ↑ H. Cwikla, p. 2.

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 30.2 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 41.2"  E