St. Pius (courtyard)
St. Pius is a Roman Catholic church in the parish of Bernhard-Lichtenberg in the Bavarian town of Hof . It is located in the southern district of Münster. The design, with a roof construction based on God's tent among the people ( Rev 21,3 EU ), takes account of the Second Vatican Council .
history
The mother parish of the Catholics in Hof was initially the Marienkirche . With the influx of refugees and displaced persons in the early 1950s, the Catholic community in Hof also expanded and made it necessary to build a separate church for the Münster and Krötenbruck area . In the period from 1961 to 1977 the building of the church was preceded by a wooden emergency church at the Zobelsreuther Wäldchen. A church building association was founded in 1972 to build a church. Survey conducted on the structure and financing of the church. In 1977 the Archbishop of Bamberg, Elmar Maria Kredel , consecrated the altar. The previous church of the St. Pius Church was dismantled and brought to Bischberg , where it was rebuilt.
In 2000, a photovoltaic system was installed on the roof of the church to generate energy . A fundamental renovation of the Pius Church was completed on Palm Sunday 2017. The Church of St. Pius belonged to the pastoral care area of St. Konrad . On July 1, 2017, the Catholic churches in Hof merged to form a city-wide parish.
Furnishing
The Köditz sculptor Margarete Wiggen made ambo , tabernacle , altar candlesticks, lecture cross , Easter candlestick, floor candlestick, candle table, door handles, altar cross, lectern, holy water basin and an entrance relief made of bronze for the furnishings of the church . The plaque at the entrance of the church has the patronage of Pope Pius X back. The stained glass windows with motifs of the Way of the Cross are the work of the Lichtenfels painter Hubert Weber . With a restored Gothic figure of Jesus and a Madonna from the end of the 19th century, older objects also found their way into the church.
The two-manual organ with 18 registers , built by the Kloss company in 1982, is located on the west gallery. It was renovated in 2017 by Orgelbau Hörl from Helmbrechts , which is also responsible for maintenance and care.
organ
St. Barbara
Figures at the ambo
St. Pius plaque
Church window
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Archdiocese of Bamberg, solar systems ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer : Curia sonans. The music history of the city of Hof. A study on the culture of Upper Franconia. From the foundation of the Bamberg diocese to the present. Heinrichs-Verlag, Bamberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 , p. 370.
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 11 ° 54 ′ 28.4 ″ E