St. Willibald (Schambach)

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The Willibald Church
View into the chancel

The St. Willibald Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Schambach , a district of the city of Treuchtlingen in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . It is located in the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery Pappenheim . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-173-136 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval and early modern findings in the area of ​​the church and its predecessor buildings are also entered as a ground monument (number: D-5-7031-0310). The postal address is Zum Wirtsbuck 1. Church patronage is St. Willibald von Eichstätt .

The current church within an old cemetery walling with the oldest component, the choir tower with a wide helmet roof, dates from the late 14th century, the nave was rebuilt in 1739. The current patronage has been called Willibald since 1480; the right of presentation lay with Marshal von Pappenheim . Until 1669 the village church was a branch church of Dietfurt, three kilometers away, in Middle Franconia , then today's double parish Dietfurt-Schambach was formed. The two-column altar from 1722 is baroque with a later altarpiece, the pulpit dates from 1701. The baptismal font with putti masks is marked 1625. Under the west gallery is a box-shaped installation, the "peasant stand". The fortified church's cemetery wall dates from the 19th century.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : St. Willibald (Schambach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Filialkirche Sankt Willibald , list of monuments of the city of Treuchtlingen at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ^ Erich Strassner: rural and urban district Weißenburg i. Bay. Series of Historical Place Name Book of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, Vol. 2 . Munich: Commission for bayer. Landesgeschichte 1966, in particular No. 179, p. 59.
  3. ^ Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district. "Monuments in Bavaria" series. Munich: Karl M. Lipp Verlag 2000, p. 637

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 ′ 3 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 6.2 ″  E