Christ the King Church (Brackenheim)
The Christ the King Church in Brackenheim in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg is a Catholic parish church built in 1954 .
history
Since the Reformation, Brackenheim has been almost entirely evangelical. Only with the influx of many Catholic expellees after the Second World War did a larger Catholic community develop in Brackenheim and the surrounding (later partially incorporated) towns. In 1949 there were a total of 1266 Catholics in Brackenheim, Dürrenzimmern , Hausen an der Zaber , Meimsheim , Botenheim , Güglingen , Frauenzimmern , Eibensbach and Pfaffenhofen , who formed their own parish. 512 of these people were Sudeten Germans , a further 422 people had moved from former south-east German areas. The congregation was initially given the Brackenheimer Johanniskirche for church services and began to collect funds for its own church construction under its first pastor Franz Pfeiffer (* 1905 in Landskron). By 1953, a plot of land on Sattelmayerstraße in Brackenheim was acquired, where a new Catholic church was built in 1954 under the new pastor Ludwig Härle. The consecration of the Christ the King Church took place on November 17, 1954 by the Rottenburg bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht . On October 1, 1955, the Brackenheim Curate was raised to the status of a parish, which included Brackenheim and the later districts of Botenheim, Meimsheim, Hausen adZ and Dürrenzimmern.
description
The Christ the King Church is a single-nave hall church . The nave is spanned by a wooden coffered ceiling. The nave opens with an oval arch to the choir , on the sides of which there is a sacristy and a side chapel. The side chapel is designed both as a baptistery and as a memorial space for the lost homeland and the fallen and dead of the Second World War.
literature
- Gerhard Aßfahl : The churches . In: Wolfram Angerbauer (editor): Home book of the city of Brackenheim and its districts . City of Brackenheim, Brackenheim 1980.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 9 ° 4 ′ 27.2 ″ E