St. Otto (Hergersbach)

St. Otto was after Bishop Otto of Bamberg named Church in Herger Bach in Ansbach . The church stood about 800 meters south of the village on the way to Wassermungenau , the so-called "Wine Route", which led from Würzburg to Eichstätt and was a pilgrimage route in the section from Abenberg to Wolframs-Eschenbach .

The church was built in the 12th century and was originally a branch church of St. Margareta (Windsbach) . After the Reformation it was temporarily elevated to a parish church , to which the St. Nikolaus (Untereschenbach) and St. Jakobus (Dürrenmungenau) branches belonged. Later it was a branch of St. Andreas (Wassermungenau) and St. Georg (Bertholdsdorf) . The church was likely destroyed during the Thirty Years War . In 1680 it was reported that the church had not yet been rebuilt. In 1730 the stones were finally used for the construction of the Windsbach Church, and more recently for road construction. Only the foundation walls are left. From these it can be concluded that it was a choir tower church . The choir tower in the east had a floor plan of 5.90 m (E / W) × 5.40 m (N / S), the hall building in the west 7.80 m (E / W) × 10.30 m (N / S ). The church was surrounded by a cemetery.

A forest chapel with a crucifix and an altar stone was built in its place in 1987 . Since then, a service has been held on the Hergersbach parish Sunday (1st after Trinity ) .

literature

Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 255-258 .
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. 70 .
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. 184 .
Willi Ulsamer (Ed.): 100 Years of the Schwabach District (1862–1962). A home book . Schwabach 1964, DNB 984880232 , p. 322 .
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. 83-84 .