St. Nikolai (Neuendettelsau)

The old St. Nikolai Church (1899)

St. Nikolai in the 1970s, south side

East side with a view of the high altar

First gallery, south side

West side with a view of the first and second gallery

St. Nikolai is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Neuendettelsau ( Dean's Office Windsbach ) named after the Greek bishop Nikolaus von Myra .

history

The origins of the St. Nikolai community in Neuendettelsau go back to the late Middle Ages. Originally, St. Nikolai was a branch church of St. Peter in Petersaurach and was elevated to a parish church on October 2, 1403 by the then Bishop of Würzburg Johann I. The right of patronage continued to be retained by the Gumbertus Foundation in Ansbach . In 1518 this was acquired by the Lords of Eyb . In 1528 the Reformation found its way into Neuendettelsau. The then pastor Sixtus Közler was removed from his office and replaced by the Lutheran Leonhard Windisch. The Principality of Ansbach tried repeatedly to dispute church sovereignty from the Lords of Eyb, which was settled with a recess in 1724, which granted the Lords of Eyb the right of occupation and the princes the right of examination. St. Nikolai was originally free of the dean's office.

In the spring of 1899 the old St. Nikolai Church was demolished because it had become too small for the rapidly growing community. Only the sacrament niche from the 15th century, the wooden figures of the Mother of God (late 15th century) and Saint Nicholas (around 1500) and the Westernach epitaph have been retained. In less than two years, a new church in the neo-Romanesque style with high altar and two galleries was built, which offered space for 800 people to worship. It was consecrated on July 7, 1901. The architect and builder was Hans Kieser from Nuremberg (1853–1925).

Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Nikolai

(1528) –153. (?) Leonhard Windisch († 1546?) (1533?) - 1535 Bartholomäus Reisner 15 .. (?) - 1535 Jörg Besold (Pesold) (1552–1557)? Achatius Stocker 1591–1592 / 3 Magister Johann Schmidelinus (1565–1613) 1592–1605 Michael Löscher († 1633 in Saxony near Ansbach) 1606–1609 Gideon Siegel (1559–1611) 1609–1610 Ernst Eisenmenger 1610-161. Johann Gulden (1547-1612) 1617–1619 Eberhard Löscher jun. († 1634) 1619–1633 Christoph Lienhard († 1633) 1633–1654 / 59 Parish unoccupied, supply by the pastor of Weißenbronn or Petersaurach (1654–1659) Johann Georg Müller (* 1627), pastor of Petersaurach and Neuendettelsau 1659–1666 Michael Schlegel (1635–1698) 1666–1674 Michael Barthel (1635–1713) 1674–1693 Michael Schwartzkopf (1635–1712) 1693–1697 Johann Adam Daßdorf (1659–1734) 1697–1699 Andreas Münderlein (1673–1714) 1699–1712 Michael Schwartzkopf (see above) 1699–1707 Vicar NN von Münderlein 1707–1711 Vicar Johann Christoph Ammon 1711–1712 Vicar Johann Michael Riedel

1712–1733 Johann Michael Riedel (1685–1748) 1733–1766 Johann Baptist Klieberer († 1766) 1766–1803 Johann Jakob Jordan (1730–1803) 1803–1818 Friedrich Jakob Ludwig Böswillibald (1773–1846) 1818–1822 August Karl Berger (1791–1863) 1822–1837 Gottlob Weigel (1800–1873) 1837 Wilhelm Tretzel, parish administrator (1808–1876)00000 1837–1872 Wilhelm Löhe (1808–1872) 1872–1876 Ferdinand Weber (1836–1879) 1876 ​​Theodor Zinck, parish administrator (1851–1921) 1877–1888 Christian Immler (1833–1906) 1888–1923 Eduard Sabel (1856–1928) 1923–1936 Michael Rabus (1871–1953) 1936 N. Kretzer, parish administrator (1910–1965)00000 1937–1959 Wilhelm Forstmeyer (1887–1969), 1943–1945 drafted for military service, parish administrator, mission director Friedrich Eppelein 1959–1968 Werner Beltinger (1903–2002) 1968–1974 Gerhard Betzner (1929–2019) 1974–1988 Werner Ost (* 1920) 1988–2001 Friedrich Walther 2002–2017 Jürgen Singer (* 1962), first pastor 2008– 0000Heinrich Stahl (* 1963), 2nd pastor 2017– 0000Stefan Gehrig (* 1975), 1st pastor

Parish

The parish has 4864 members (as of June 2011) from the places Bechhofen (the whole place only from 1807), Birkenhof , Froschmühle , Geichsenhof , Geichsenmühle , Haag (the whole place only from 1807), Jakobsruh (from 1897), Johannishof , Mühlhof and Neuendettelsau .

Subsidiary communities of St. Nikolai are St. Laurentius in Wernsbach (since 1807) and St. Kunigund in Reuth (since 1848).

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1969 by the organ builder Paul Ott (Göttingen) and overhauled in 2002 by the organ builder Hemmerlein (Cadolzburg). The slider chest instrument has 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 1. Quintates 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Dumped 8th' 4th octave 4 ′ 5. flute 4 ′ 6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 7th octave 2 ′ 8th. mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Trumpet 8th'

II breastwork C – g 3 10. Dumped 8th' 11. Quintad 8th' 12. Principal 4 ′ 13. Capstan flute 4 ′ 14th Sesquialtera II 15th Schwiegel 2 ′ 16. Zimbel II 17th Dulcian 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 18th Sub bass 16 ′ 19th Octave bass 8th 20th Dacked bass 8th' 21st Choral bass 4 ′ 22nd Rauschpfeife IV 23. trombone 16 ′ 24. Schalmey 4 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 128 .
• 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. 57-62 .
• 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. 171-174 .
• 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. 44-52 u. passim .
• Hans Rößler (Ed.): 100 Years of the Nikolai Church in Neuendettelsau 1901-2001 . Evangelical Luth. Parish office, Neuendettelsau 2001, DNB  961942606 .
• 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. 67-74 .

Web links

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

• Website of the St. Nikolai community in Neuendettelsau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Jehle, pp. 171f.
2. ↑ Hans Rößler (Ed.): Under thatched and tile roofs. From the Neuendettelsau story . Freimund, Neuendettelsau 1982, ISBN 3-7726-0110-3 , p. 64 .
3. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 173.
4. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 171.
5. ^ Nikolai News. Number 3 (June / July 2012), p. 14.
6. ↑ In the course of a so-called purification , ordered by the Ansbach Chamber in 1807, the properties that were originally parish to St. Georg (Immeldorf) and St. Margareta (Windsbach) came to St. Nikolai. see: Jehle: Church Relations and Religious Institutions ... 2009, p. 174.
7. ↑ In the course of a so-called purification , which the Ansbach Chamber ordered in 1807, the properties that were originally parish to St. Michael (Weißenbronn) and St. Margareta (Windsbach) came to St. Nikolai. see: Jehle: Church Relations and Religious Institutions ... 2009, p. 174.
8. ↑ originally St. Michael (Weißenbronn) .
9. ↑ More information about the organ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 11, 2014 ; Retrieved December 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 17.9 ″  E