St. Michael (Weißenbronn)

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St. Michael in Weißenbronn
Interior of the St. Michaels Church

St. Michael is a church named after the Archangel Michael of the Evangelical-Lutheran parish Weißenbronn in the deanery Windsbach .

history

The church was first mentioned by name on October 20, 1337 in a brief from Pope Benedict XII. , with which she was dedicated to the Archangel Michael. The choir tower dates from this time. A bell in this tower dates back to 1295, making it one of the oldest bells in the area.

Under Pastor Hans Keim (from 1501) the buttress arch of the choir was raised and the ossuary moved behind the church. A silver paten and a silver goblet with a foot made of copper were purchased and carved pictures for the altar were made, presumably by the same master from Nördlingen who had made the carved pictures on the Peter and Paul altar in Heilsbronn. A third tower floor was built in 1711, and in 1716 the church was extensively remodeled in the Baroque style (extension, elevation and new vaulting of the hall, built-in galleries and window enlargement, fittings ), in which bricks and stones from the dilapidated St. Stephen's Church in Wollersdorf were used.

The glass painting in the choir, which shows the resurrection of Jesus Christ, dates from 1891. In 1899 the windows were enlarged again. Major church renovations took place in 1865, 1911 and most recently from 1970 to 1972.

Pastor

  • Pastor Friedrich (? –1501)
  • Hans Keim (1501-1525)
  • Sebastian Wagner (1525–?)
  • Ulrich Prunner
  • Ulrich Reisacker
  • Johann Winkler
  • P. Kolb (around 1548)
  • Pastor Schopp (? –1567)
  • Johann Hausecker (1567–1569)
  • Konrad Stillkraut (1569–?)
  • Johann Redlein (late 16th century)
  • Caspar Heinrich Ihring (1633–1640)
  • Pastor Zach (? –1648)
  • Konrad Renner (1650–?)
  • Pastor Dürr (late 17th century)
  • Christoph Heinrich Friedrich Seufferheld (1839–1872)
  • Christian and Elisabeth Franz (late 1980s)
  • Günther Brendle-Behnisch
  • Hans Schlumberger (current pastor)

Parish

Originally St. Michael was a branch of St. Stefan in Wollersdorf , towards the end of the 15th century the community became independent.

The parish of St. Michael includes the places Aich (since 1818 also the so-called "winter side" of the place), Berghof (until 1833), Betzmannsdorf , Birkenhof (until 1808), Geichsenhof (until 1834), Geichsenmühle (until 1834 ), Hammerschmiede , Jakobsruh (until 1897), Mausendorf (from 1545), Mausenmühle (from 1545), Moosbach (1545–1603), Neuses bei Windsbach (1545–1603), Reuth (1549–1848), Schönbühl (until 1833) , Steinhof (from 1808), Steinmühle (from 1808), Trachenhöfstatt (from 1821), Triebendorf , Watzendorf (1545–1812), Weißenbronn, Wollersdorf (1500–1812) and Ziegelhütte (until 1833).

With currently (as of 2009) 637 members, Weißenbronn is the smallest parish in the deanery. The project “The three monastery communities” has existed since 2007, in which the parishes of St. Michael, St. Johannes in Bürglein and St. Marien and St. Jakobus in Heilsbronn cooperate.

A chapel in Aich , donated in 1901, also belongs to the parish .

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 151-152 .
  • 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. 77-80 .
  • 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. 188-192 .
  • Eberhard Krauss: Exiles in the Evangelical Luth. Deanery Windsbach in the 17th century. A family history investigation (=  sources and research on Franconian family history . Volume 19 ). Society for Family Research in Franconia, Nuremberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-929865-12-7 , p. 69-75 u. passim .
  • 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. 89-94 .

Web links

Commons : St. Michael  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Parish Weissenbronn. In: Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery. Volume 2  - Sources and full texts

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 7.2 ″  E