St. Nikolaus (Wülzburg)

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St. Nikolaus is the Evangelical Lutheran castle chapel of the Hohenzollern fortress Wülzburg above the large district town of Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is part of the Weissenburg parish of St. Andreas in the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Weissenburg . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-177-582 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The patronage is St. Nicholas of Myra .

The Wülzburg Fortress is located on the Wülzburger Berg above Weißenburg in Bavaria in the Franconian Alb

history

An originally planned castle church east of the gateway was never realized. After a fire in 1634, the church was baroque until 1675 and 1738 and rebuilt in 1864. In the early 19th century, the chapel was used by both denominations. The interior was renovated from 1995 to 1996. With just under 20 members, the church has the smallest parish in the Free State of Bavaria . There is an elected church council and services are held every two weeks.

Furnishing

The chapel, a hall church with Renaissance - Portal , located in the south wing. A red marble tombstone of Abbot Wilhelm († 1449) comes from the Wülzburg Monastery, which disappeared due to the construction of the fortress . The baroque pulpit altar in front of the western front wall was erected in 1738. The coat of arms of the Ansbach margraves can be found on the east gallery . A holy water stone from 1815 next to the entrance indicates the former Catholic joint use. The chapel has an organ from the early 18th century and a baroque font . On the south facade there is a Luther picture from 1732, in the rear pulpit area there is a lecture cross from 1723.

literature

  • Daniel Burger : The castle chapel of the Wülzburg fortress. In: Villa nostra. Weißenburger Blätter 1996, No. 2, pp. 5-13.
  • Daniel Burger: Graves in the vaulted gusset of the St. Nikolaus Chapel on the Wülzburg Fortress, City of Weißenburg , in: Contributions to Archeology in Middle Franconia 4 (1998), pp. 339–352.
  • 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 Burgfestung Wülzburg in the monument list of the city Weißenburg in Bavaria of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF)
  2. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. St. Nikolauskapelle , pointoo.de, accessed on July 26, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Wülzburg-Kapelle St Nikolaus , www.st-andreaskirche.de, accessed on July 26, 2015
  4. ↑ gottiswelt.de , accessed on July 26, 2015

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 31.8 ″  N , 11 ° 0 ′ 17.9 ″  E