St. Matthäus, Lutheran parish church in Uttenhofen, Uffenheim, Middle Franconia, Germany
St. Matthäus is a Lutheran hall church built in 1703 in Uttenhofen, a district of Uffenheim. The nave incorporates a raised choir, and a square, slate-clad roof turret with a clock and bell frame rises from the hipped roof, topped by an onion dome. Bat dormers sit in the roof, and galleries line the interior, with the organ above the altar.
St. Matthäus was built in 1703 as a Lutheran nave church with the elevated choir integrated into the nave. It belongs to the parish of Ulsenheim in the deanery of Uffenheim, in the Ansbach-Würzburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. The building is listed as a monument under number D-5-75-168-122 in the Bavarian monument list.
St. Matthäus is a Filialkirche (branch church) of the parish of Ulsenheim, in the deanery of Uffenheim within the Ansbach-Würzburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. Its name refers to the apostle Matthew. The organ on the gallery above the altar, built around 1770 by Georg Martin Gessinger, is the element a visitor should look for.
St. Matthäus stands in Uttenhofen, a village district of Uffenheim in Middle Franconia, not in the town centre itself. The church belongs to the parish of Ulsenheim within the Uffenheim deanery of the Ansbach-Würzburg church district. Visitors should note that the nave and its elevated choir form one continuous space under a single hipped roof.
The organ on the gallery above the altar was built around 1770 by Georg Martin Gessinger. The square, slate-covered roof turret rises from the east end of the hipped roof, which has bat dormers, and holds the tower clock and bell frame beneath an onion dome.
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