Motorway church Maria, protection of travelers
The Autobahn Church Maria, Protection of Travelers is a Catholic motorway church . It was built in 1956 by Raimund von Doblhoff as the first motorway church in Germany on the A 8 Munich – Stuttgart at the Adelsried junction .
history
The church was donated by the Augsburg paper manufacturer Georg Haindl . The name of the church refers to the flight of the Holy Family into Egypt ( Mt 2,13-15 EU ). The consecration of the church took place on 12 October 1958th
description
Doblhoff strove to create a "harbor of familiar silence" on the edge of the motorway. On the scale of a Bavarian village church, he erected a concrete skeleton construction on a rectangular floor plan measuring 17 × 14 meters. The front and rear walls of the church are almost completely glazed. The entrance consists of a wide-opening two-part glass sliding door. The architecture is based on the Gothic path chapels.
The Gothic crucifix with a three-meter-high body from the middle of the 14th century is a listed building .
Father Wolfram Hoyer
The church was cared for for 14 years (2006 to 2020) by Father Wolfram Hoyer from the Dominican monastery in Augsburg, who himself was the victim of a traffic accident on July 30, 2020 on the A8 motorway - the motorway on which the chapel is located. At Sulzemoos the father's car broke down. When the warning triangle was set up, he was caught by a skidding trailer that detached itself from the towing vehicle. Father Hoyer died at the scene of the accident at the age of 51.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sights · Holzwinkel and Altenmünster Augsburger Land. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ BayernViewer-denkmal ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) BLfD
- ^ "Autobahn Father " Wolfram Hoyer died in a traffic accident , kathisch.de, July 31, 2020
Web links
- Motorway Church Maria, protection of travelers at autobahnkirche.de
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 57.7 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 26.4" E