St. Michael (Sausenhofen)

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St. Michael in Sausenhofen in May 2012

The St. Michaels Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Sausenhofen , a district of Dittenheim in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , and a branch church in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Heidenheim . The address is Sausenhofen 30. The building is registered under monument number D-5-77-122-30 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval predecessor building is currently registered as a post-qualified ground monument with not established behavior under monument number D-5-77-122-30.

History and architecture

The previous church was built from 1050 and was finally consecrated in 1070 by Blessed Gundekar von Eichstätt . It was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The building was then renewed in 1657. Today's choir tower church was built from 1865 to 1868 as a uniform church building in the neo-Gothic style , partly including the late Gothic previous building. As with the previous building, the patron is the Archangel Michael . The sandstone building has a church tower with a steeple, which is adorned with colored glazed bricks. The cemetery wall, built in 1762 and rebuilt in the 19th century, is a listed building.

Furnishing

Detail winged altar: Archangel Michael weighing souls

Inside the church there is a late Gothic winged altar , which was created in 1493 by Leo Stehelin , a supposed painter from Pfofeld . It survived the Thirty Years War without damage and has four movable wings. In addition to a statue of Archangel Michael in the shrine and Franconian-Swabian panel paintings (around 1500), the predella on the altar is also worth mentioning. The latter shows the half-length portrait of the holy Richard von Wessex , Willibald von Eichstätt , Wunibald and Walburga as well as two coats of arms of the monastery Heidenheim .

organ

The organ was installed by the Steinmeyer company from Oettingen in Bavaria and has 7 registers on a manual with pedal and a total of 457  pipes . The game and register action is built in the form of a mechanical cone chest . The instrument with the opus number 92 was built in 1870 with old parts from the previous organ. In 1889 Steinmeyer installed new cone shops and partly new pipes. The beautiful original sound of the organ was - apart from the installation of the new pewter prospect pipes in 1989 - not changed.

Steinmeyer organ from 1870, opus 92, with neo-Gothic prospect

The arrangement of the organ is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Salicional 8th'
Dumped 8th'
flute 8th'
Dumped 4 ′
Principal 4 ′
mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′

Bells

In the tower of the church there are three bells with the chimes g 1 , b 1 , c 2.


The smallest bell (now the baptismal bell) was cast in 1856 by Johann Adam Kärnlein (1822–1875, Nuremberg). The label above reads:

JA Kärnlein in Nuremberg cast me in 1856.


The inscription on one side reads:

I am ore and dead, but I call everyone to come and seek in need

the one that is never taken from you:

the Lord who wants to give life and everlasting peace.


The inscription on the other side reads:

The church administration in Sausenhofen

Albrecht Schaumberg, evangelical Luther. Pastor u. Cameradt (??)

Andreas Schmidt, church caretaker.

Georg Siebentritt, Kw member.

Andreas Siebentritt, mayor.


The middle bell (11 o'clock bell) was cast in Nuremberg around 1500 before the Reformation. The inscription, which is decorated with small bells, reads: Ave + Maria + gratia + plena + dominus + tecum

The big bell (12 o'clock bell) was cast in 1959 by the Bachert bell foundry company in Heilbronn. The inscription above reads: I am the resurrection and the life

The front view is adorned with the monogram of Christ with a crown, and on the back is also affixed: In memory of the fallen and missing of the two world wars

  • Winged altar

  • archangel Michael

  • Baptism of Jesus

  • Annunciation

  • Predella, birth of Jesus

  • Pulpit and chandelier

  • Altar cross

  • Baptismal font

  • Martin Luther

  • chandelier

  • Steinmeyer organ from 1870

  • Pulpit ceiling

  • Small bell (baptismal bell)

  • Middle bell (11 o'clock bell)

  • Big bell (12 o'clock bell)

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 , p. 82-84 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dittenheim architectural monuments. Retrieved October 3, 2019 . in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ The origins of the Sausenhofen Church ( Memento from August 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Karl Gröber, Felix Mader (editor): Die Kunstdenkmäler von Mittelfranken. VI. District Office Gunzenhausen. R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1937, pp. 265-268.
  4. ↑ Neo-Gothic church , www.altmuehlfranken.de, regional initiative of the district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district office ; accessed on October 3, 2019.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 58.7 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 27 ″  E