St. Ursula (Colmberg)

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The neo-Gothic church with the Gothic steeple
View into the north-east facing nave
The Gothic tower

The St. Ursula Church is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of Colmberg in the Central Franconian district of Ansbach in Bavaria .

location

The church stands in a southwest-northeast orientation on the "Kirchberg" in the northeast of the old town center, the "Altenstatt". It can be reached via the street “Am Kirchberg”, which branches off from Ansbacher Straße (state road 2250) or from Gartenstraße as a spur road.

history

Today's church probably had a wooden predecessor church that was built on a pagan cult site. A church building was first mentioned in a document in 1375. This south-facing choir tower church was closed in 1864 because of dilapidation and demolished in 1873 except for the tower. By 1874, a new nave was built on the old Gothic church tower in a north-easterly direction.

Colmberg originally belonged to the original parish of St. Peter in Leutershausen . The pastor of Leutershausen was entitled to a third of the Colmberg tithe . Foundations finally made it possible to build a Gothic church in Colmberg itself, and with the approval of the Bishop of Würzburg , the place was probably separated from the mother parish in the 13th century and raised to its own parish. A cemetery surrounded by a high stone wall was built, which was abandoned in 1848. Some epitaphs are embedded in the northern cemetery wall, such as the epitaph of the margravial castler Caspar Bachmeyer († March 23, 1686).

The church became Protestant-Lutheran around 1528 under the sovereignty of the Margraves of Ansbach. The first Protestant pastor was called Melchior Frey. From 1556 the parish belonged to the deanery Leutershausen. From 1588 onwards, the parish of Colmberg also included the towns of Oberfelden and Häslabronn . Kurzendorf was added in 1812 and Unterfelden in 1820 . Since 1563 at the latest, there was a school building opposite the church, which was rebuilt in 1755, rebuilt in 1872 and expanded in 1962 and which today serves as the information center of the Romantic Franconian Tourist Association.

description

The nave from 1873/74 was built on the area of ​​the former cemetery made of green sandstone from Oberdachstetten , has a flat wooden ceiling and is closed off by a relatively low saddle roof. The floor consists of Solnhofen slabs . The choir is attached to the hall church in the northeast; A sacristy is built in the northern choir corner. The two-storey tower of the previous building made of sandstone blocks with access to the galleries has corner blocks and cornices ; An octagon, also provided with corner blocks and with an eight-sided pointed helmet, rises above the square tower substructure . The side walls with six window axes are subdivided by pilaster strips . The main portal is designed as a shoulder arch portal and is located in the middle of the right wall of the nave. There are galleries to the south and west of the church.

Sanctuary
Cross on the left front wall
Bachmeyer epitaph in the cemetery wall

Furnishing

The neo-Gothic altar from 1874 was replaced in 1960 by the current one, which shows a communion relief made of red mahogany wood by the Nuremberg sculptor Hans Heiber . The colored glass window, newly installed behind the altar in 1928, is a donation from Ernst Arthur Voretzsch .

On the left front wall there is an old crucifix that used to be located next to the pulpit on the right. The organ on the south pore was purchased in 1960.

The bell in the church tower consists of four bells, the two oldest date from 1340 and 1483.

literature

  • Günter P. Fehring: Bavarian art monuments. City and district of Ansbach. Munich 1958
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. Second, revised and supplemented edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999.
  • Hans-Michael Körner , Alois Schmid (ed.), Martin Ott: Handbook of historical sites . Volume 7: Bavaria II. Volume 2: Franconia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 325). Kröner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-520-32501-2 .
  • Claus Broser: Church leader of the “St. Ursula ”church in Colmberg. Leutershausen 2006
  • Manfred Jehle: Ansbach. Historical Atlas of Bavaria I 35 , 2 vols., Munich 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broser, p. 1 f.
  2. ↑ Jehle, Vol. 1, p. 79
  3. ↑ Dehio, p. 265; Broser, p. 9 f.
  4. ↑ Jehle, Vol. 1, p. 77
  5. ↑ Broser, pp. 3-6
  6. ↑ Körner, p. 100
  7. ↑ Broser, pp. 7-9
  8. ↑ Broser, p. 12 f.
  9. ↑ Fehring, p. 88
  10. ↑ Broser, p. 14 f.
  11. ↑ Broser, p. 13
  12. ↑ Broser, p. 9 f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 12.3 "  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 42.4"  E