St. Gumbertus (Ansbach)
St. Gumbertus belongs together with its neighboring Church of St. John of the central downtown churches of Ansbach in Bavaria. The St. Gumbert, of St. Mary and St. Salvator, consecrated monastery was founded by St. Gumbert. 748 bis 911/1012 there was a Benedictine monastery; later it was a collegiate. It was dissolved in 1563, no longer occupied the provost. The pin goods formed a fund for church and school purposes under state administration, was secularized only under Montgelas. The St. Gumbertus Church and parts of the pen are preserved. The church serves as a Lutheran parish church.
The only other Gumbertuskirche is located in the Upper Franconian town of Schwarzenbach an der Saale.
History
The History of St. Gumbertus goes back to the first beginnings of the former residence. The name of the church is reminiscent of the Frankish noble outdoor Gumbertus who built a monastery Marie at the confluence of Rezat and Onoldsbaches to 748, the monks of the Benedictine monastic rule "ora et labora" followed. In the 11th century the monastery of St. Gumbert was converted into a Chorherrenstift and experienced a great time, and was about the eponymous owner of the Gumbertusbibel. Finally, it occurred in 1528 by a resolution of Parliament under Margrave George the Pious, the church along with the Ansbach Margraviate of the Lutheran Reformation in.
The St. Gumbertuskirche combines the changing architectural style periods of less than a millennium, from the still visible oldest parts of Ansbach ( crypt to 1040 ), on the St. George's Chapel (14th century), the high choir of the former late Romanesque main church ( the today's swan Knight chapel from the 16th century) and the margrave Repräsentationskirchenbau, the Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich was built in 1738 by Leopold Retty.
The church today
After the end of the Margraviate was from the former court church a parish church, whose three Sprengel today include the eastern half of the city 's 6,000 parishioners.
Today, St. Gumbertus serves as a place for a variety of church events, eg church musical performances by the Ansbacher church music and the Windsbacher boys' choir. Spiritual life enables always open church with many liturgical forms, of which in addition to the many church services especially the smaller forms such as " Time for You ", Taizé prayer and " goodnight Church," the Bismarck tower devotions could be mentioned.
Organ
The organ in St. Gumbertus was built in the years 1736-1739 by Johann Christoph Wiegleb and in 2004-2007 by the organ builder Orgelmakerij Reil ( Heerde, Netherlands) reconstructed.
- Accessories: Lower unit: check valve, sliding coupling to the middle Manual
- Medium work: " echo ", " Machin train to echo ", " check valve for the Upper Manual"
- Upper work: " stopcock to the intermediaries Manual", sliding coupling to the upper Manual
- Basses: shut-off valve to the pedal