St. Walburga (Mitteleschenbach)

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St. Walburga, north side

St. Walburga is a Roman Catholic church in Mitteleschenbach named after St. Walburga . It belongs to the parish of St. Nikolaus (Mitteleschenbach) in the Herrieden dean's office of the Eichstätt diocese .

history

St. Walburga was built as a cemetery church around 1400 by order of Konrad and Ottilie von Rechenberg and consecrated in 1400 by the auxiliary bishop Seyfried von Eichstätt. Up until the Reformation there was an annual procession to the Gottesruhkapelle in Windsbach , which was popularly known as Michael's Church. The parish of Windsbach, in turn, has committed itself to giving the parish of Mitteleschenbach one pound of wax annually for perpetuity, as can be seen from a sage entry from 1509. It is unlikely that one of the two churches was a branch of the other. On April 30, 1450, Nuremberg mercenaries burned down the church. An early mass was founded in 1509, but it was not maintained for long. In April 1633 the church was destroyed again by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years War.

In 1722 the nave of the church was enlarged by the builders Dominikus and Johann Joseph Salle according to plans by Gabriel de Gabrieli and the tower was raised. The interior was designed simply. The renovation cost 625 florins in 1882, in 1961/64 and in 1982 the church was renovated. In 1998 an old way of the cross from the second half of the 19th century was found, which was restored in 2001.

Building description

St. Walburga is a choir tower church . The choir tower in the east has a square floor plan. It has an arched window on the south side, the sacristy adjoins it on the north side, which has a portal on the east side and two small arched windows on the north side. On the first floor, the tower has an arched window on the south side. The bell storey has a smaller octagonal floor plan. Two bells hang in it. There are arcuate sound openings on the north, south, east and west sides. The tower is completed by a mansard roof. The hall building in the west has three axes with arched windows on the north and south sides and ends with a gable roof. On the south side there is an arched portal and a crucifix. The church is surrounded by a cemetery that had to be expanded in 1906.

The single-nave hall closes off flat with a stucco-decorated ceiling. A wooden pulpit is attached to the south side, an organ gallery is drawn in on the west side. On the east side the hall is connected to the choir by an arched portal, to the left and right of it there is a side altar. The high altar in the choir is a four-pillar structure with a statue of Our Lady.

In the nave there are two late Gothic statues of St. Laurentius and St. Stephen , which were made in 1480/90.

literature

  • Karl Dunz : Windsbach - home and cultural history of the city with all districts . Neuendettelsau 1985, p. 160 .
  • 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. 200 .
  • Hansgeorg Klauss et al. (Ed.): The district of Gunzenhausen . Verl. F. Authorities and Economy Hoeppner, Aßling-Pörsdorf / Obb. 1966, DNB  456843604 , p. 72-73 .

Web links

Commons : St. Walburga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedhofskirche St. Walburga on the website bistum-eichstaett.de
  2. ↑ a b c d H. Klauss (Ed.), P. 73.
  3. ↑ K. Dunz, p. 160.
  4. ↑ M. Jehle, p. 200; K. Dunz, p. 160. According to H. Klauss (Ed.), P. 73, it is said to have been a pilgrimage church until the 18th century.

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 52.3 "  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 47.9"  E