St. Peter and Paul (Graefenbuch)

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St. Peter and Paul, south side
North side

St. Peter and Paul is an Evangelical Lutheran church named after the apostles Peter and Paul in Gräfenbuch ( Deanery Ansbach ).

Parish

St. Peter and Paul was built in 1430 and consecrated in 1431. It was a branch of St. Margaretha (Lehrberg) from the beginning . The parish originally only belonged to the part of Graefenbuch that was south of the Sulzbach. The bishop of Eichstätt exercised the patronage . The Bishopric of Eichstätt introduced after the Reformation, the Holy nurse and was still for the Holy statement (church administration) responsible since it still held the village and township government (DGH) in Grafe book. The gentlemen von Seckendorff , who were also wealthy in Graefenbuch, also provided a nurse. As can be seen from a parish description from 1864, Eichstätt officials administered the church assets of St. Peter and Paul until recently, even when their DGH had long since expired. The Eichstätt bishop also insisted on his right of patronage and demanded part of the tithe that was needed in earlier times to finance a clergy. Ansbach officials raised a formal protest against this. In 1812 the part of Graefbuch, which lay north of the Sulzbach, was re- parish from St. Maria (Obersulzbach) to St. Margaretha.

St. Peter and Paul is a parish with its own parish council. Every two weeks there is a Sunday service.

Church building

The choir tower church was built from quarry stone and ashlar masonry and is plastered. The Gothic choir tower in the east and the adjoining sacristy on the north side are original. The nave was renewed in 1713. The choir tower has a square floor plan and a rectangular window on the south side. On the bell floor it has arched sound openings of different sizes on the south, east and north sides and a clock face on the north and south sides. It ends with a pyramid roof. The nave has a gable roof, the ridge of which is at the same level as the bell storey, and a bat dormer on the north side. It has an axis of rectangular windows on the north and south side towards the choir tower, on the south side another small rectangular window, above it an arched window, on the north side there is an ox-eye and a rectangular portal. Around the church is the walled cemetery.

The hall has a single nave and has a wooden gallery on the west and north sides. The gallery parapet shows paintings of the Twelve Apostles with their identifying features. In the southeast corner of the hall there is a wooden pulpit, probably at the beginning of the 18th century, with a marbled polygonal basket. On the east side, the hall is connected to the choir by a round arch arcade. In the groin vaulted choir is the altar with a crucifix as an attachment.

literature

  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 97 .
  • 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. 262-271 .
  • Hans Sommer with e. Working group d. Dean's office (ed.): It happened in the name of faith: Protestant in the Ansbach deanery (=  series of portraits of Bavarian deanery districts ). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1991, ISBN 3-87214-248-8 , p. 115-120 .

Web links

Commons : Saints Peter and Paul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GP Fehring, p. 97.
  2. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 270.
  3. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 262.
  4. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 265.
  5. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 263f.
  6. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 271.

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '23.1 "  N , 10 ° 28' 31.9"  E