St. Joseph (Butzbach)

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St. Joseph from the east
Chapel with rectory from the west

St. Joseph is the former Roman Catholic parish church in Butzbach in the Wetterau district , which today serves as a cemetery chapel. The gothic hall building was built in 1879/1880 with short transverse arms and roof turrets. The chapel, together with the neighboring rectory, is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

It is believed that Butzbach owned a church as early as the 8th century. In 1303 a pleban is mentioned and in 1342 the Butzbach parish. The parish church of St. Markus was built in the early 14th century. In addition, the city had four other places of worship, several religious offices and two hospitals. Ecclesiastically, Butzbach belonged to the dean's office in Friedberg to the archdeaconate of St. Mariengreden in the diocese of Mainz and formed its own broadcasting district .

With the introduction of the Reformation in 1535, the congregation changed to the Evangelical Lutheran creed. In 1803 13 Catholics lived in Butzbach. Only in the 19th century did the Catholic community regain its strength, especially with a few Catholic soldiers in the local barracks. An application by Catholics to the church and school council in 1821 for the purpose of setting up Catholic services failed, as did an application in 1851 to Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler on the question of the place of worship.

After the establishment of the Butzbach mission station in 1856, a Catholic mass was celebrated again in Butzbach for the first time in 1857, and a prayer room in Solms Castle was left for the faithful . Financial aid came from the Mainz Boniface Association, which aimed to support Catholics in the diaspora . In 1872, pastor Konrad Reuss von Oppershofen and in 1880 Baroness Riedesel zu Eisenbach made larger donations to the association for the construction of a church . From 1872 difficulties arose with the church service room when the rent was to be increased several times. Since the Butzbach district court was to move into the rooms from 1878, Pastor Alois Mees told the Bonifatiusverein that he was "now in need of building a new restaurant". When two Protestant Butzbach citizens, Heinrich Melchior II and his sister Anna Katharina Hadermann, donated two pieces of land to the community on October 16, 1879, plans for a new church were drawn up from April 1879. The services were held temporarily in the town hall.

St. Joseph at the inauguration in 1894

In 1879 St. Joseph was built according to plans by the Mainz cathedral builder Joseph HA Lucas . On October 24, 1880 inaugurated Dean Keller, the new chapel Ockstatt since the Mainz bishopric had been vacant since the 1877th It was placed under the patronage of St. Joseph . In 1880 she received the late Gothic St. Mary's altar as a gift from the evangelical Markus parish. On April 1, 1894, Butzbach was promoted to parish curate. The new rectory was built in 1895/1896 to match the church with brick masonry.

In 1906 the community acquired a used organ from Franz Riederer from Landshut, which had seven registers . In 1937/1938 Johannes Klais Orgelbau replaced the instrument with a new one (Opus 912) with eleven stops on two manuals and a pedal behind a free pipe prospect. In 1953 it was converted into the new church. The church received a new sacristy in 1930 .

The community experienced a surge when, from 1946 onwards, numerous Silesian refugees and Sudeten German expellees came to Butzbach and the surrounding area. As a result, it comprised around 10,000 believers in the post-war period. These were to be spiritually cared for in 18 locations within a radius of up to 10 kilometers.

After the construction of St. Gottfried in 1952/1953, St. Joseph lost its status as a parish church and on May 26, 1954, including the rectory, was sold to the city of Butzbach for 65,000 DM in order to serve as a cemetery chapel and mortuary in the future.

architecture

Portal in the southwest

The church not facing east, but facing northeast, is built on the northeastern outskirts outside the city gates. The floor plan is cross-shaped with short transverse arms. The red brick masonry rises above a base made of gray quarry stone masonry . The red brick building is structured by horizontal bands made of white bricks, which gives the building a classicist character. The retracted choir on a rectangular floor plan has a straight end, which is supported at the corners by stepped buttresses. Instead of a window, a coupled pointed arch panel is embedded here. A small, low sacristy with a hipped roof and its own entrance is built on the east side of the choir . The masonry of the choir, sacristy and the porch is finished with a battlement frieze .

The gable roof, which is hipped in the north, is equipped with three small dormers on each side. The long sides are in the south by a respective pilaster divided into two fields. The south-western side of the gable has corner pilaster strips and a small transverse rectangular porch with a slated roof for the arched portal, above which a pointed arched window is let. An eight-sided, completely slated roof turret is attached to the gable. A small pointed helmet rises above the arched, lamellar sound openings, which is crowned by an ornate wrought-iron cross. The interior is illuminated on the long sides through paired pointed arch windows. In the transverse arms there is a double window in a large ogival screen, and above it a small square window.

Interior

Interior facing northeast
View to the southwest

The simply designed interior is closed off by a boarded wooden barrel vault, which is supported by large belt arches that rest on wall services above consoles. At the base of the barrel, there are tension beams that are suspended across the church, which also end in the services and have headbands with quatrefoil . The walls and ceiling are completely white in focus .

The south pore is supported by two square posts and serves as the installation site for a two-manual digital organ from the Hoffrichter company. The parapet has openings in pairs with three-pass arches and a profiled cornice.

The retracted choir has a large ogival niche in which a simple wooden cross is hung. Pulpit, altar and pipe organ are no longer there. The late Gothic St. Mary's altar from the period after 1514, which was donated to the parish church in 1880, is now on display in St. Gottfried.

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Beck, Günter Bidmon: 50 years of St. Gottfried Church in Butzbach. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 175, July 8, 2003, pp. 105-108 (part 1), No. 176, July 22, 2003, pp. 109-112 (part 2), No. 177, July 31, 2003, p. 113 –116 (Part 3), No. 178, August 9, 2003, pp. 117-120 (Part 4), No. 179, August 13, 2003, pp. 121-124 (Part 5), No. 180, 19 August 2003, pp. 125-128 (part 6).
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Hesse II. Darmstadt administrative district. Edited by Folkhard Cremer and Tobias Michael Wolf. 3rd edition Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03117-3 , p. 128.
  • Peter Fleck: History of the new Catholic parish Butzbach. In: Peter Fleck, Dieter Wolf (eds.): Catholic life in Butzbach in the Middle Ages and modern times, commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the Catholic parish of Butzbach. Butzbach 1994, pp. 71-159, notes pp. 217-232.
  • Ludwig Hellriegel: 75 years of Catholic parish Butzbach, St. Joseph, St. Gottfried, 1894–1969. Catholic Parish Office St. Gottfried, Butzbach 1969.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Heinz Wionski (edit.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. Wetteraukreis II. Teilbd. 1. Bad Nauheim to Florstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-528-06227-4 , pp. 324-325.
  • Dieter Wolf: On the church history of Butzbach in the pre-Reformation period. In: Peter Fleck, Dieter Wolf (ed.): Catholic life in Butzbach in the Middle Ages and modern times. Kath. Pfarrgemeinde St. Gottfried, Butzbach 1994, pp. 11–70, notes pp. 207–217.

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Griedeler Straße 52 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
  2. ^ Wolf: On the church history of Butzbach. 1994, pp. 15, 25.
  3. ↑ Butzbach. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 31, 2015 .
  4. ^ Wolf: On the church history of Butzbach. 1994, p. 47.
  5. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area. (= Writings of the institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 19.
  6. ^ Fleck: History of the new Catholic parish in Butzbach. 1994, p. 75.
  7. ^ Fleck: History of the new Catholic parish in Butzbach. 1994, pp. 77-82.
  8. ^ Fleck: History of the new Catholic parish in Butzbach. 1994, pp. 84-85.
  9. ^ Fleck: History of the new Catholic parish in Butzbach. 1994, p. 90.
  10. ↑ Hellriegel: 75 years of the Catholic community of Butzbach. 1969, pp. 49-50.
  11. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Hessen II. 2008, p. 128.
  12. ^ Fleck: History of the new Catholic parish in Butzbach. 1994, p. 98.
  13. ^ Franz Bösken , Hermann Fischer : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 220 .
  14. ↑ Hellriegel: 75 years of the Catholic community of Butzbach. 1969, p. 68.
  15. ↑ Hellriegel: 75 years of the Catholic community of Butzbach. 1969, p. 72.
  16. ↑ bistummainz.de: Butzbach, St. Gottfried , accessed on November 17, 2015.
  17. ↑ Beck, Bidmon: 50 years of St. Gottfried Church in Butzbach. 2003, p. 110.

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 9.8 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 34.3"  E