St. Wolfgang (Haundorf)

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St. Wolfgang in Haundorf

The St. Wolfgang Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Haundorf in the Central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen in Georgentalweg 8. The parish of Haundorf belongs to the parish Haundorf- Laubenzedel in the Evangelical Lutheran deanery in Gunzenhausen . The hall church is registered under the monument number D-5-77-138-1 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. The medieval and early modern findings in the area of ​​the church are also entered as a ground monument (number: D-5-6830-0170).

history

The church was probably built in 1449. An indication on the keystone of the choir arch dates the church to the year 1458. The construction was probably carried out in the course of pilgrimages to Haundorf, initiated by the patron saint Wolfgang von Regensburg . The church served as the court church of the Georgenthal hunting lodge .

description

After being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , the interior of the church was redesigned in Baroque style by the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1706 , while the exterior remained late Gothic . During this time Mathias Auernheimer created the stucco ceiling . The altar and pulpit are by Giuseppe Volpini , the setting of the altar by Sebastian Ludwig Hopfer . In 1713 Wilhelm Friedrich donated an oil painting with a Gethsemane scene to the church .

A ribbed vault forms the east choir . On the north wall of the choir, the legend of Wolfgang is shown on 24 pictures in four registers. Frescoes were uncovered in the 1940s . A major renovation took place in 1994 and 1995.

The church tower from the 16th century on the west side is crowned by a pointed helmet added in 1791. The four-story tower was expanded octagonally in 1711 . The building is made of sandstone .

graveyard

On the cemetery is the grave monument of Ph. A. Bolz, a three-sided pyramid limestone from 1814, a listed building.

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 .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German. Art monuments, Bavaria I: Franconia . 2nd edition 1999, p. 431

Web links

Commons : St. Wolfgang (Haundorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Dean's Office
  2. ↑ a b c Evang.-Luth. Parish Church of St. Wolfgang ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  3. ↑ about the ground monument ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de
  4. ↑ Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German. Art monuments, Bavaria I: Franconia . 2nd edition 1999, p. 431
  5. ↑ Parish Church of St. Wolfgang - pilgrimages to Haundorf?
  6. ↑ Church history Haundorf 2014 , Evangelical Lutheran Dean's Office Gunzenhausen , accessed on March 27, 2016
  7. ^ Evangelical Lutheran. Church of St. Wolfgang on www.pointoo.de
  8. ↑ Church of St. Wolfgang , www.altmuehlfranken.de, regional initiative of the district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen; Retrieved February 6, 2013

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 19.7 ″  E