St. Peter (Petersaurach)

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The St. Peters Church in Petersaurach
Altar of St. Peter's Church

St. Peter is a church named after the apostle Peter of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Petersaurach ( Dean's office Windsbach ).

Parish

St. Peter was originally a branch of St. Alban (Saxony near Ansbach) . Since the 12th century, Petersaurach has been an independent parish with a pastor and a parish church, even then under the patronage of Peter.

The parish of Altendettelsau , Gleizendorf (since 1435), Langenheim , Langenloh (since 1929), Petersaurach, Wicklesgreuth and Ziegendorf are part of the parish of St. Peter . The branch church of St. Nikolai (Neuendettelsau) , which became independent in 1402 , the so-called "winter side" of Aich (from 1810 parish of St. Michael Weißenbronn ) and Geichsenhof with the Geichsenmühle (from 1812 also St. Michael) no longer belong to the parish. From 1555 to 1810 the parish belonged to the deanery Schwabach , from 1810 to the deanery Windsbach.

The churches of St. Mauritius (Gleizendorf) and the Friedenskirche (Wicklesgreuth) also belong to the parish . The Lady Chapel near Altendettelsau, built around 1350, no longer exists today.

Pastor

  • Ulrich Hofstätter (term of office around 1390)
  • Johann Hofmann (???? - 1528)
  • Johann Paur (1528- ????)
  • Stanislaus Porphyrius (1556 - ????)
  • Johannes Friedrich Sperl (1882–1913)
  • Jacob little girl
  • Hans Binöder
  • Walter Eidam
  • Inge Kamm

Membership development

  • 1987: approx. 2,000 members
  • 2009: approx. 2,400 members

Church building

Nothing is left of the original church. The current St. Peterskirche was in the 14./15. Erected as a Gothic choir tower. A sacristy was added at the end of the 17th century and finally a nave around 1720. The interior furnishings (pulpit, organ, stalls, epitaph, tombstones) also date from this period. In 1799 the tower was shortened to its present height. In 1942 three out of four bells were dismantled for war purposes. A bronze bell from 1724 has been preserved. The melted down bells were replaced by three cast steel bells in 1952.

Originally the church was surrounded by a cemetery. When this became too small, it was relocated in 1848 on the path that leads to Aich.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 132-133 .
  • 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. 63-67 .
  • 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. 168-170 .
  • 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. 53-61 et al. 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. 74-80 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 37.1 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 50.8 ″  E