Holy Family (Bad Griesbach)
The parish church of the Holy Family is a church building in Bad Griesbach im Rottal . It was built in the years 1911 to 1913 and is the parish church of the parish "Zur heiligen Familie" Bad Griesbach with around 3000 Catholics. At the same time, it is the seat of the Parish Association of Bad Griesbach, which also includes the parishes of the Holy Trinity (St. Salvator), St. Valentin (Reutern) , St. John the Baptist (Weng) and St. Mary's Assumption (Karpfham) . It is located in the Deanery of Pocking ( Diocese of Passau ) and was included in the list of architectural monuments in Bavaria under No. D-2-75-124-9 .
history
In 1805 Griesbach was raised to an independent parish. The parish church was the former castle church of St. Michael , which until then was the seat of a parish vicariate , depending on the mother parish of the Assumption of Mary (Karpfham) . By the turn of the 20th century, the population of Griesbach rose to around 1,300 people, and St. Michael's Church became too small. The clergyman Josef Philipp, pastor in Griesbach from 1909 to 1925, built a larger church. The brewery owner Franziska Holzinger donated the property and a considerable part of the construction costs of 180,000 to 200,000 gold marks. The building was created after a tender by the Munich construction company Franz Rank . The foundation stone was laid on April 18, 1911, and towards the end of 1912 five bells weighing more than 117 hundredweight were hung in the tower of the new church. The Passau bishop Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow-Felldorf consecrated the church on July 2, 1913. The previous parish church of St. Michael has served as a cemetery church since then. The Holy Family Church was completely renovated from 1991 to 1994.
Buildings and equipment
The church is located not far east of the town square of Bad Griesbach at Haagstraße 35 in the middle of a residential and commercial building. The large neo-baroque building in the shape of a basilica is aligned with the choir to the northwest. It has a tall, light main nave and two low aisles and offers around 500 seats. At the southern end of the nave, the 56 meter high church tower with an octagonal bell and an onion crown rises on the west side .
The furnishings of the church - altars, stations of the cross , pulpit and ceiling painting - also took place in the neo-baroque style from 1915. The high altar was created by Johann Huber from Munich, the altar painting "Birth of the Savior" is by Gebhard Fugel . A new popular altar was designed by sculptor Hans Wurmer as part of the overall renovation and consecrated by Bishop Franz Xaver Eder on April 10, 1994.
The organ taken over from the former parish church of St. Michael was replaced in 1938 by an instrument with 24 registers , built by the Passau organ building company Becker & Hiendl , which is still played today. With the exception of the smallest bell (250 kg), the bells acquired in 1912 had to be delivered during the Second World War . In 1949 the parish church received four new bronze bells weighing 2500, 1400, 1000 and 700 kg, cast by the Passau bell foundry Rudolf Perner .
Today the church has an electronically controlled bench water heater and in the last rows of the central aisle there are induction loops for hearing aid wearers.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '7.2 " N , 13 ° 11' 38" E