St. Afra (Theinselberg) – Wikipedia

Ev.-Ref. Pfarrkirche in Theinselberg

St. Afra is a Protestant-reformed parish church in the Swabian Theinselberg, municipality of Lachen in the Unterallgäu district.

The church is on an increase in the Upper Swabian town of Theinselberg in the immediate vicinity of a castle stable. ^[first] The parish church is dated and is listed. ^[2]

Interior view of the parish church

A first parish church of the St. Afra patronal feast has been handed down from 1167 by a relics from the Ottobeuren monastery. The building, which was built from Nagelfluh blocks today, was built in 1484. In 1558 and 1559, Philipp von Pappenheim introduced the reformed faith after Zwingli in its territories and thus also in Theinselberg. The parish church was devastated in the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War. A restoration took place in 1649. This restoration was financially supported by several Swiss cities. Following the Thirty Years’ War, the church served as a simultaneous church both the Catholics and the Reformed believers. In 1707 the church finally went into the property of the Evangelical Reformed community. Today it is one of two churches in the Evangelical Reformed parish of Herbishofen.
Simpert Kraemer built his own church for the Catholic community 1713–1715 according to plans by Christoph Vogt; The nave was added in 1723. This church burned down in 1746, the parish built in 1746/47 then laughed its new church in the village.

The church consists of a collected choir with mesh rib vaults on simple pyramid consoles. He has two yokes and a 5/8 closure. The tracery windows have a Gothic pointed arch and partially renewed tracery. The east window of the choir is bricked up. The exterior has simple buttresses with a watercase. The choir arches are pointed with edges. The flat nave has four window axes. In the western axis, round arched windows, otherwise there are only pointed -arched windows with tracery on the south side, which was also partially renewed.

The tower is located in the northern choir angle. The church tower standing in the tradition of the Gothic, Swabian village churches has a gable roof. The north side has three -part sound arcades on the upper floor, two -part sound arcades in the south. The basement of the tower has a cross -rib vault, from which a rib was cut off. The sign in the south was subsequently added. It has a gable roof and a round -arched entrance with ripped off walls. The church portal is pointed with beveled walls.

The interior is shaped by a crossbone vault and in the side walls by round arched blind niches. The organ is located on the western gallery.

The parish church has a simple equipment as is common for the Evangelical Reformed churches. Most of the equipment is neo -Gothic style. The pulpit was made of wood around 1700, with the grain being painted on. The polygonal basket is placed on an ionic column. This is divided by twisted columns. The fields are decorated by flat blind niches and crop frames. The back wall has the same structure. A blown gable can be seen between the volts of the sound cover. A foliage decor can also be seen on the pulpit in flat -carvy carnival and job saw work. The grave slab in the sanctuary was embedded in 1898. The simple choir stalls comprises the complete choir room. A chair was only left out for the exit to the sacristy. Reformed creed is on the backrests in golden letters.

List of reformed preachers and pastors of Herbishofen – Theinselberg [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Notice board at the entrance of the Ev.-ref. Parish church in Theinselberg

• Hermann Brill, Helmut Kirsch, Joachim Metten, Benedikt Wegmann: 1559–2009 the reformed in the Allgäu . Ed.: Presbyteries of the Ev.-Ref. Parishes Bad Grönenbach and Herbishofen. Bad Grönenbach 2009, S. 80 .
• Tilmann Breuer: City and district of Memmingen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, S. 226 .

1. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Entry in the list of ground monuments
2. ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments: Official list of monuments
3. ↑ 1559–2009 The Reformed in Allgäu, p. 70.

47,942292 10.249721 Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 32.3 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 59 ″ O