Christ the King Church (Hauenstein)
 The catholic parish church Christkönig in Hauenstein |
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| Basic data | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| place | Hauenstein (Pfalz), Germany |
| Patronage | Christ King |
| Building history | |
| architect | Albert Bosslet |
| construction time | 1931-1933 |
| Building description | |
| inauguration | August 20, 1933 |
| Architectural style | Neo-romance |
| Construction type | three-aisled sandstone basilica |
| 49 ° 11 '33.9 " N , 7 ° 50' 59.6" E | |
The Christkönig Church is a Catholic parish church in Hauenstein , Südwestpfalz district , Rhineland-Palatinate . It bears the patronage of Jesus as Christ the King (Rex Christ) . The church is listed in the register of cultural monuments in the district of Südwestpfalz.
history
Due to the development of the shoe industry , Hauenstein experienced strong population growth towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century . In 1886 the place had almost 700 inhabitants, in 1913 it had already 1900. The place’s Catholic parish church, the Bartholomäuskirche, consecrated in 1788, had become too small, and a second Sunday mass, which was approved by the episcopal ordinariate in 1907, could not solve the problem of space to solve.
In 1904, under the then pastor Eiswirth, a church building fund was set up, into which the annual surpluses of the church treasury were paid. In 1909, 1911 and 1913 Eiswirth demanded a church levy, but neither the local council nor the church administration gave the necessary approval. After the rejection in 1913, the pastor reacted by canceling the early mass, so that the whole congregation had to take part in a single Sunday mass again, and showed how urgently a solution to the space problem was. This measure ultimately led to the approval of the required levy.
By the year 1923 more than 200,000 marks were collected through levies and donations, but currency collapse and inflation ate up the capital. In 1924, with the introduction of the Rentenmark , stable currency conditions returned, and funds were again raised to finance the construction of a church. A church building association was founded in 1928 , and a financial basis was created again through house collections and an increase in the local church tax:
Even before the founding of the church building association, concrete plans and considerations began to solve the space problem. Initially, an expansion of the Bartholomäuskirche was considered, for which the architects Albert Boßlet and Rudolf von Perignon designed plans and made models. Some of these plans had even been submitted for approval, but due to the small amount of space gained at comparatively high costs, the plan to expand the church was finally dropped on November 28, 1927. Then the planning for a new building began.
As a construction site three possible locations were discussed: new building on the site of St. Bartholomew Church, a building site in the sweat lands or a building site in the bathtub Schellenbängert. The latter was finally agreed and at the end of April 1928, after long negotiations, the purchase of the building site was notarized . In December 1929, after more than a year of planning, the final plan by the commissioned architect, Albert Boßlet, was submitted for approval. After examination by church and state authorities, the building permit was granted on June 15, 1930. More than a year passed again for the building preparation before the groundbreaking ceremony was carried out on August 2, 1931. The following day, August 3, 1931, construction work began with the excavation by the Schneider company ( Landau-Queichheim ).
On October 18, 1931, the foundation stone was laid by the then Speyer Bishop Ludwig Sebastian . As patronage was Christ the King selected. Pope Pius XI had introduced the Christ the King's Festival for the whole church in 1925 , and in the following years several new churches received this patronage, the first in 1926 to be the Christ the King's Church in Bischofsheim near Mainz. In the foundation stone certificate, the name and "program" of the new Hauenstein church are mentioned:
“The church is consecrated to the mystery of faith of the kingship of Christ, which is the rule of grace and love, the rule of order and morality, reason and freedom, the rule of justice and peace. This kingship should extend to all people and permeate not only the salvation of the individual, but also the social structures, family and state, with its beneficial influence. "
On August 20, 1933, the completed church was finally consecrated .
Architecture and equipment
The church, which was built from red sandstone , shows romanized forms, as they are characteristic of many church buildings by Albert Boßlet. The basilica nave is flanked in its western part by two towers , which jump back around a yoke opposite the central nave and thus form a westwork , comparable to St. Pantaleon in Cologne . In front of the church building at the side is the rectory , which is connected to the church by a pillar hall and thus forms an atrium-like forecourt together with the westwork .
Inside the church is the imposing tapestry- like Christ the King fresco on the choir wall , which was created in 1932 by Felix Baumhauer on a blood-red background. The fresco takes up a passage in the Gospel of Matthew ( Mt 25,34ff EU ) and shows Christ enthroned as Pantocrator and King on the globe crossed by the cross, surmounted by the blessing God the Father surrounded by angels . In the top row the patriarchs and prophets of the Old Covenant can be seen, to the right of Christ the King Mary and Joseph are shown interceding , flanked by angels . To the side of the globe sit the apostles , among whom are the great innumerable multitudes from all peoples, countries and languages according to the Revelation of John (( Rev 7,9 EU )).
In 1963 the interior of the church was painted lighter, with the Christ the King fresco by Felix Baumhauer being lightened by his son Hans. The new altar and the ambo are the work of the Hauenstein artist Franz Seibel, who made them in 1983.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1942 as opus 972 by the organ building workshop Johannes Klais Orgelbau and inaugurated on July 12, 1942. The Kegelladen instrument with 2596 pipes has 40 registers , distributed over 3 manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. It is one of the largest organs in the region.
The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, tutti, crescendo roller, individual tongue storage, storage for Gedacktpommer 16 'and base 32', positive (II) also playable from an additional single-manual emergency game table in the housing
Web links
- Parish of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Hauenstein
- Hauenstein (PS) Christ the King, evening bells (video with sound)
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Südwestpfalz. Mainz 2020, p. 19 (PDF; 8.7 MB).
- ↑ a b c d e f Parish Church of Christ the King - a short building history ( memento from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on: cms.bistum-speyer.de, accessed on August 17, 2012
- ↑ a b c Christkönig, Hauenstein ( memento from March 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at: cms.bistum-speyer.de, accessed on June 16, 2016
- ↑ The churches in Hauenstein at haeschde.de/, accessed on June 16, 2016.
- ↑ a b Opusliste (PDF) on: www.klais.de, accessed on August 17, 2012
- ↑ a b c Church: The Organ ( Memento from January 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Organ of the Catholic parish church Christkönig Hauenstein on: www.organindex.de, accessed on March 23, 2015