Holy Cross (Fulda-Maberzell)

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Heilig Kreuz (Fulda-Maberzell) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Fulda district of Maberzell in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda and is assigned to the Fulda deanery .

The church building is not far from Maberzeller Straße ( B 254 ) on the L 3418 in Rittlehenstraße at the corner of Nikolaus-Seng-Straße 6.

Holy Cross (Fulda – Maberzell)
Maberzell; Holy Cross Church.JPG
place Fulda-Maberzell
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Fulda
Patronage Holy cross
Construction year 1973
Construction type Hall church
function Parish church

history

The old church

The first chapel is mentioned in 1462 during the time of the Fulda abbot Reinhard von Weilnau . In the years 1510 and 1594 Maberzell belonged to the parish of Haimbach . 1727 a patronage of Vincentius of Saragossa is mentioned. In the reign of the last Fulda prince-bishop Adalbert III. Secularization fell from Harstall , in which the Fulda monastery was dissolved in 1802. In 1812 the Maberzell church is still a daughter church of Haimbach.

The old church

The old fortified church with a choir tower from the 12th century and a nave burned down in the Thirty Years War and was not yet restored in 1656. It was a simple fortified church with a court of death / cemetery as a hall church . The old fortified church was demolished and rebuilt in 1847 during the reign of Bishop Christoph Florentius Kött . The current nave from this period has three window axes with segmented arched windows and an apse . After the completion of the new parish church, it was profaned and used privately since 2002 and is a listed building . The old bell tower still has the bell ringing and is still used for the new parish church.

The new church

Today's modern tent roof church was built in 1972/73 as the second church in Maberzell. It is the successor church to the fortified church that has become too small . The new church is 1973 in the office of the diocesan bishop Adolf Bolte the patronage of the Holy Cross consecrated been and has a modern feel. It was built according to the plans of the Fulda diocesan master builder Rudolf Schick.

Altarpiece new Under the local parish priest Dr. Günther Etzel was inaugurated the oversized altarpiece "The Story of Redemption", created by the painter Ante Milas , on Saturday, November 7th, 2004 . It is 12.80 wide and 8.20 meters high - exactly 105 square meters - inaugurated. It now covers the huge exposed concrete wall of the church in the form of two "wings".

Artistic design

A picture by the painter Ante Milas hangs over the entire front wall of the altar . It is entitled “History of Redemption”. The altarpiece is 110 m 2 , the largest in Central Europe.

organ

In 1990 the new church received an organ .

Bells

In the bell tower of the old church there is a four- bell that is also used for the new church. The new Holy Cross Church was built without a bell tower. The daily strike of the hour is carried out with a striking mechanism with a half- hour strike on the full and half-hour and when the angel is rung . In addition to the clock, there are three bells in the church tower. The smallest bell, the Andreas bell, was preserved during the First World War and the Second World War and, unlike the other bells from the 19th century, did not have to be delivered to the bell cemeteries in Hamburg for war purposes.

useful information

In 1990 the old church was supposed to be demolished, but conservation concerns prevented the demolition. This was followed by the profanation of the nave and the choir. From 2003 the nave was restored and then put to commercial use with a photo studio.

Pastoral Association

The parish is one of the four Catholic parishes in the western city and district near the center of Fulda, in which the Catholics live in the majority.

She belongs to the pastoral association St. Antonius von Padua Fulda-West in the dean's office in Fulda:

belong.

The current pastor of St. Markus (Haimbach) acts as the moderator of the pastoral network

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Fulda: deaneries, pastoral associations, parishes

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 43.4 "  N , 9 ° 37 ′ 51.7"  E