St. Sebastian (Vestenberg)

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St. Sebastian, south side

St. Sebastian was a chapel named after St. Sebastian in Vestenberg , which is now used as a parish hall.

In 1465, Conrad von Eyb, the then lord of the Vestenberg castle, donated a benefit to hold the mass. For this purpose he built the castle chapel in 1466, which was a separate church of the Lords of Vestenberg. The walled up crypt of the Lords of Eyb probably dates from the time it was built. The nave preserved today was probably built in the 18th century. The hall area has a rectangular floor plan, the adjoining choir room a trapezoidal floor plan. This is followed by a half-timbered sacristy building. On the south and north sides there are arched windows that were partially walled up (after 1958) and oval windows. There is a round arch portal on the south side. The nave ends with a gable roof, which is hipped on the east side. A half-timbered bell tower is planted on the east side as a roof turret. It has a square floor plan and a pyramidal roof on which a weather vane is attached.

Since the construction of the St. Laurentius Church in 1891, the chapel has been converted into a schoolhouse. The interior decoration was partially taken over in the new church, such as a crucifix from the 18th century that stands there above the high altar in the choir. Furthermore, the altarpiece (an oil painting of the Resurrection of Christ, framed by Tuscan column architecture with triangular gable from 1829) and the sacristy table (octagonal marble top in wooden frame with inlay, probably 1st half of the 19th century), both of which are now in the sacristy , and two epitaphs from the Eyb family (16th century), which are now housed in the tower floor.

In 1991 the chapel was transformed into a community hall.

literature

  • Hermann Dallhammer: Petersaurach; Documentation of a large community . Petersaurach 1996, p. 194 .
  • Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 145 .
  • 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. 307-308 .
  • 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. 145 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 307f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 14.2 ″  E