St. Michael (Suffersheim)

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View of the interior of the St. Michael branch church

The St. Michaels Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Suffersheim , a district of the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It forms a branch church of the parish of Neudorf in the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Pappenheim .

The building stands on the northern outskirts and is surrounded by the cemetery.

The choir tower church was built from 1722 to 1723 on the medieval basis; The previous church of St. Gunthildis from the 9th century was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . The walling of the cemetery probably dates from the 17th century. The church portal with arched field , inside a Roman cross, dates from the 11th century. The 36 meter high, massive and rectangular tower is four-gabled, polygonal and has three bells from the 19th and 20th centuries; the top of the tower shows the colored glazed tiles typical of the Pappenheim area and used in a pattern, which were used in 1913. The spire of the tower was renewed. 1853 The coat of arms of the Reichsmarschalls von Pappenheim is placed above the choir arch and commemorates their patronage from the 12th to 19th centuries. The baroque altar from around 1721, the altarpiece of which was created in 1957, and the baroque pulpit from 1688 were donated in front of the new church. The organ case, created around 1720, is also baroque. The 16-armed brass - chandelier is from 1990. The remains of the holy Gunthildis of Suffersheim should have been in the church.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Evang.-Luth. Church of St. Michael , www.pointoo.de. Retrieved December 26, 2012
  2. ↑ St. Michael at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  3. ↑ St. Michael's Church in Suffersheim
  4. ^ Suffersheim - the village in the narrow Schambach valley

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '59.1 "  N , 11 ° 1' 8.7"  E