St. Peter (Stetten)

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The Peterskirche

The St. Peter Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Stetten , a district of the city of Gunzenhausen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is a parish church in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Gunzenhausen . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-136-192 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval and early modern components of the church and its predecessor buildings are also registered as a ground monument (number: D-5-6930-0227). The postal address is Stetten 32. Church patronage is St. Simon Peter .

history

St. Peter's Church, which was turned into a Protestant parish church in the course of the Reformation and was located on a hill in the village, originally a choir tower from the 14th century, was given a new nave in 1568 . In 1680 the polygonal church tower, completed in 1615, was decorated with a pointed helmet . In 1823 the nave was extended to the north and the pulpit altar was installed. The old organ dates from 1733/1734 and was installed above the altar, the current one was placed on the west gallery in the late 1960s. Two bells from Nuremberg were cast in 1615.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church of the Holy Cross , List of Monuments of the City of Gunzenhausen at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf, accessed on November 25, 2015)
  2. ^ Johann Schrenk / Karl Friedrich Zink: GottesHäuser. Church leaders in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Treuchtlingen / Berlin 2008, pp. 204–206
  3. ^ Description of the church

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 56.3 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 54.4"  E