St. Stefan (Wollersdorf)

St. Stefan was a church named after the holy martyr Stephanus in Wollersdorf in the district of Ansbach . The church stood on the knoll above the courtyard with house numbers 11 and 12.

history

The church was first mentioned by name in a list of the consecrations of Eichstätt Bishop Otto (1192/96). In 1266 the church became the property of the Heilsbronn Monastery .

From the Salbuch to the farm No. 12 it emerges that this originally gave parish pledges for the "Gottshauß Sant Stephani", from which one can conclude that the Wollersdorf church must have been a parish church at least for a time. This is also underlined by a missal note by the 26th abbot Wenk from 1529 in connection with tithing disputes:

“The Musselian subject in Wollersdorf owes a tithe to the pastor in Weißenbronn; for in the Wollersdorfer missal it was written: 'To notice how every pastor in Weißenbronn is obliged to do the church in St. Stephan in Wollersdorf: to hold mass and preach on the next Sunday; the middle mass every Christmas day; also about the other St. Mary's and Apostle's Day and the Kirchweih and St. Stephen's and St. Leonhard's Day; item the first confession at Wollersdorf, the second at Weißenbronn. He is obliged to do this because St. Stephan and the church at Wollersdorf were the right parish church and Weißenbronn was a daughter. Since it happened that a pastor had to read two masses, at Wollersdorf and Weißenbronn, the Bishop of Eichstätt no longer wanted to tolerate this. That is why a pastor in Weißenbronn has to refer to the great and minor tithes from Wollersdorf. '"

After the Thirty Years War the church fell into disrepair. In 1716 the remains were used for the restoration of the Weißenbronn St. Michaels Church , in 1738 for the construction of the Weißenbronn rectory. The last stones were sold in 1780/81.

Finds and remains from today

In 1741 a drawing was made that also showed the church ruins that were still in existence at the time.

In 1910, around 20 coins from the 12th and 14th centuries were found on the property of the former cemetery in Wollerdorf. These coins “had the stamp of Nuremberg, Amberg and Schwäbisch Hall: the symbols star, hand and lion. The unrefined silver contained a lot of copper and was covered with verdigris. "

In a special excavation carried out in 2007, a layer of stone was found that could be paving a path or a square in front of the church.

literature

• Erwin Dohms: Wollersdorf and neighboring villages . Heilsbronn 1982.
• Günther P. Fehring : City and district of Ansbach (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 2 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1958, DNB  451224701 , p. 159 .
• Manfred Keßler: The knight's seat in Dettelsau in the high and late Middle Ages . (Dissertation). Erlangen 2009, DNB  998940933 , p. 428-431 ( PDF; 11.1 MB ).
• Georg Muck: History of Heilsbronn Monastery from prehistoric times to modern times . tape 2 . For Kunstreprod. Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1993, ISBN 3-923006-90-X , p. 304–308 (first edition: Beck, Nördlingen 1879).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nuremberg State Archives, Repertory 400 IV No. 411
2. ↑ quoted from Muck, Volume II, p. 307
3. ↑ E. Dohms, p. 76.
4. ↑ M. Keßler, p. 431

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 18 ″  E