St. Vitus in Sichertshausen
Above the village it is the mighty oak tree and above the houses it is the pretty little, idyllic little church, both of which have shaped the townscape of Sichertshausen for centuries to this day.
The Veitskapelle is mentioned for the first time in 1334, at that time it was part of the original parish
Ettenhausen belongs. And that's where the Sichertshauseners walked to school until 1934 - so the story goes. In that year the parish of Sichertshausen, which had remained independent, was assigned to the parish of Niederstetten.
You enter the little church via the small cemetery, where the Sichertshausen residents have been burying their dead since 1934.
It is not difficult to discover that the maintenance and renovation of 'their' little church is of great concern to the small parish. The ribbed vaulting in the choir room and the two windows in the
mighty walls of the square tower. Angels hold the coat of arms and inscription of a Count of Hohenlohe and Weikersheim from the late 17th century on the north wall.