Holy Family (Lörrach)

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Holy Family

The Holy Family Church in the Stetten district of Lörrach is a modern Roman Catholic church under the patronage of the Holy Family . The branch church of the Fridolins parish was built between 1965 and 1967.

history

Due to the rapid population growth in Stetten, Pastor Knebel of the parish of St. Fridolin turned to the Archbishop's Ordinariate of Freiburg on November 18, 1957 with the request to examine the construction of a new church between the Wiesentalbahn and the Wiese . On September 28, 1964, permission was given so that on November 7, 1965 the foundation stone for the new branch church in the Neumattsiedlung could be laid. The construction was completed in 1966; the church was consecrated on April 30, 1967 by the auxiliary bishop Karl Gnädinger .

Foundation stone

The building, which was simply designed by the architect Wilhelm Frank, was the first church building in the Archdiocese of Freiburg to be built using a prefabricated construction method. Frank designed a total of 16 of these buildings, which were made in Schwieberdingen . The cost of the shell in Stetten amounted to 430,000 marks .

In September 1988, while the parish was on a trip to Ireland, the idea of ​​founding an association to buy an organ for the church arose . As early as December 1988, an initial offer was obtained from Johannes Klais Orgelbau . An offer for DM 160,968 was made for the organ with ten registers . Further offers from other organ builders amounted to well over DM 200,000, so that the Klais company was awarded the contract. On Palm Sunday , April 9, 1995, the new organ was consecrated and presented to the public in a solemn concert.

Since 2009, church services have not been celebrated in the Holy Family church due to a decline in visitor numbers . Since then, the parish has been negotiating an adequate subsequent use. Since April 2013, the Evangelical Johannesgemeinde has been celebrating its services temporarily for two years. Since no sustainable tenant could be found for the largely vacant property, the Archdiocese of Freiburg submitted an application to demolish the church in 2016. In place of the church, a community shelter for refugees and asylum seekers is to be built.

On October 17, 2016, the church was profaned by removing the relic .

description

Building

Longhouse

The church consists of two structures. The aisle church with a gable roof is set back from the road, a lower wing is added at right angles to the north, in which the sacristy is located. A cuboid bell tower made of exposed concrete stands a little further away from the street . The tower, which is around 24 meters high, has a simple metal cross on its top. The upper floors, in which the belfry is located, have small, notch-like sound openings. Each of the four sides has a metal dial of the tower clock.

Furnishing

The two-winged portal made of raw cast iron depicts the twelve gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem . It as well as the high altar and ambo made of shell limestone, the large crucifix above the altar made of cast bronze and the sacrament house come from the Ravensburg artist Josef Henger. The font was created by Matthias Buchhaas from Lörrach.

The church, with around 350 seats, is illuminated by the windows, whose 120 square meter colored glazing was created by the artist Emil Wachter . They show pictures from the New Testament . On the altar wall the representation begins with the life of Jesus and ends with the passion . A square Pentecostal picture hangs on the north side.

Bells and organ

Bell tower

The three-part bell of the church, which comes from the Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling foundry , is tuned to the beats f sharp ', a', h '.

The 1995 built organ of the company Klais has the following disposition :

Manual C – g 3
Salicet 8th'
Copula 8th'
Flauttravers 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Duplicate 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture III 1'
Cromorne 8th'
Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'

A pedal coupler above the mechanics and the shifting of the bass or treble division from b / c 1 to c 1 / cs 1 act as a playing aid .

literature

  • Catholic parish of St. Fridolin (Ed.): Church of the Holy Family, Lörrach-Stetten. 1995.
  • Hans Jakob Wörner : Lörrach-Stetten, St. Fridolin. Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1975, ISBN 978-3-7954-4786-1 , pp. 19-22.
  • Johannes Helm : The existing, disappeared and abandoned churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland and in the bordering areas of the former Upper Austrian Breisgau and the Hochstift Basel office of Schliengen: attempt to take stock of the history of architecture and art. 2nd Edition. Schmidt, Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 171-172.

Web links

Commons : Holy Family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church of the Holy Family , p. 7.
  2. ^ Gerhard Moehring : Brief history of the city of Loerrach . Braun, Karlsruhe 2007, ISBN 978-3-7650-8347-1 , p. 126.
  3. ↑ Lörrach-Stetten, St. Fridolin , p. 19
  4. ^ Church of the Holy Family , p. 9.
  5. ^ Church of the Holy Family , p. 11.
  6. ↑ What becomes of the Holy Family Church? In: Badische Zeitung of July 5, 2010.
  7. ↑ Homepage Johannes-Gemeinde Lörrach
  8. ^ Badische Zeitung: Church gives way to refugee accommodation , article from April 2, 2016, accessed on July 20, 2016
  9. ↑ Badische Zeitung: After the relic was removed, the Holy Family Church is profaned , article from October 20, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2019
  10. ↑ Lörrach-Stetten, St. Fridolin , p. 22
  11. ↑ Churches and rooms of the cath. Parish community, Lörrach: Church of the Holy Family ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath-kirche-loerrach.de
  12. ^ Public works by Emil Wachter
  13. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 171
  14. ^ Church of the Holy Family , p. 6.

Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 56.8 "  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 16.2"  E