Sacred Heart Church (Aschaffenburg)

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Herz-Jesu-Kirche Aschaffenburg 2011
Interior
Vleugel's organ

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche was built in 1928/29 as a Catholic parish church for the Austrian Colony district and the eastern part of the city of Aschaffenburg .

history

Due to the steadily growing population in the eastern part of the city, south of the Aschaffenburg-Würzburg railway line and in the newly built residential area of ​​the Austrian Colony , after the First World War , parish priest Max Jäger, in whose parish St. Agatha the new district was located, asked Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried for a branch church to build. He founded a church building association , acquired land and commissioned the architect Albert Boßlet to build a rectory. In 1926 the church building association Aschaffenburg-Ost became the church building association Herz Jesu and Boßlet designed the plan. The foundation stone was laid on November 11, 1928 , and on October 27, 1929, Bishop Ehrenfried consecrated the new Sacred Heart Church in Aschaffenburg. In the first few years the future bishop of Würzburg, Josef Stangl , worked as chaplain at the Herz-Jesu-Kirche. It is designed in the style of a "fortified church" with twin towers. The equipment consists of a marble altar with a gilded round tabernacle , a representation of Christ as a good shepherd in the choir, the organ gallery and a large wooden cross above the portal.

In October 1944 the church was damaged in an air raid. During the great attack on the city of Aschaffenburg on November 21, 1944, it was badly hit, "the west wall with the entrance, gallery and organ as well as the ceiling of the nave" collapsed. The rectory was destroyed, pastor Gottfried Enders was buried in the cellar, but could still be dug up in time. Soon after the war ended, the church was rebuilt.

organ

The organ installed in 1995 is a “cathedral organ” , as its builder Hans Georg Vleugels describes it in the festschrift for the consecration of the Sacred Heart Church on October 22, 1995. It has slide chests , a mechanical game and electrical stop action and a built-in game console. The normal couplings are mechanical and electrical, III 4 ', III 4' / pedal , roller 1 + 2 with electronic setter and sequencer. The secondary registers contain the Zimbelstern , Glockenspiel, tympanum and Vogelsang. The housing is made of oak. Due to its extensive disposition , it can be used as a concert organ, as has already been shown in numerous large concerts.

I main work C – a 3
1. Praestant 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viola di gamba 8th'
4th Flute harmonique 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Unda maris 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Pointed flute 4 ′
9. Fifth 2 3 ⁄ 4  ′
10. Super octave 2 ′
11. Mixture major III 2 ′
12. Mixtura minor III 1'
II positive
13. Darling Dumped 16 ′
14th Principal 8th'
15th Reed flute 8th'
16. Salicional 8th'
17th Praestant 4 ′
18th recorder 4 ′
19th Vox angelica 4 ′
20th Fifth flute 2 3 ⁄ 4  ′
21st Forest flute 2 ′
22nd Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
23. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Sif flute 1'
25th Cymbel II-III 1'
26th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III swell
27. Bourdon 16 ′
28. Violin principal 8th'
29 Flute 8th'
30th viola 8th'
31. Vox coelestis 8th'
32. Fugura 8th'
33. Flute 4 ′
34. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. Flageolet 2 ′
36. violin 2 ′
37. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
38. Piccolo 1'
39. Harmonia aetherea III
40. bassoon 16 ′
41. Trumpet harm. 8th'
42. oboe 8th'
43. Clarine harmonique 4 ′
Tremulant
IV Bombardment Plant
44. Bourdon 8th'
45. Praestant 4 ′
46. Cornet V 8th'
47. Bombard 16 ′
48. Trumpet 8th'
49. Clarine 4 ′
50. Vox humana 8th'
51. Clarinet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
52. Pedestal 32 ′
53. Principal bass 16 ′
54. Sub-bass 16 ′
55. Violonbass 16 ′
56. Octave bass 8th'
57. Flute bass 8th'
58. cello 8th'
59. Tenor octave 4 ′
60. Back set IV
61. tuba 32 ′
62. trombone 16 ′
63. Trumpet 8th'

Bells

Five bells are ringing from the tower of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Aschaffenburg today. In 1956 they replaced the only Petrus Canisius bell that was left from the war and tuned to f sharp . The heart of Jesus bell h 0 , Joseph bell d 1 , Marien bell e 1 , apostle bell f sharp 1 and Antonius bell a 1 , were cast in the Otto bell foundry in Bremen - Hemelingen and have a total weight of 147 hundredweight. The bells have the following diameters: 1711 mm, 1438 mm, 1281 mm, 1100 mm, 960 mm.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Herz Jesu Kirche Aschaffenburg in 1979
  2. ↑ Carsten Pollnick / Aschaffenburger Volksblatt No. 172 of June 28, 1988
  3. ^ Alois Stadtmüller: Aschaffenburg in the Second World War. Bombing, siege, surrender. (= Publications of the History and Art Association of Aschaffenburg ) Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1970.
  4. ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association V., Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .
  5. ↑ Main-Echo No. 97 of April 26, 1956
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here especially 533 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular p. 509 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (doctoral thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

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Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 40 ″  N , 9 ° 9 ′ 28.5 ″  E