Herz-Jesu parish church (Bad Kissingen)

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Herz-Jesu parish church, Bad Kissingen
The Sacred Heart Church
place Bad Kissingen
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Diocese of Würzburg
Patronage Sacred Heart of Jesus
Construction year 1881-1884
Construction type
function Parish church

The Herz-Jesu-Kirche is a Roman Catholic church in the city center of the Bavarian spa town Bad Kissingen . It is the town parish church of the place. It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-110 in the Bavarian list of monuments . The tower of the church is 67 meters high.

history

planning

Since the Kissinger Jakobuskirche , built in the 14th century, was not designed for the ever increasing number of spa guests, a new church was necessary in the 19th century. However, a corresponding application was rejected by King Ludwig I in 1844. The rejection was followed in 1849 with the approval of the Kissingen pastor Georg Josef Jüngling, the approval of a daily mass for spa guests.

Since the Jakobuskirche only offered space for 675 people, Jünglings successor, Pastor Anton Joseph Gutbrod, vehemently advocated the construction of a new church building due to the 4,000 visitors to the church service (consisting of the Kissingen population as well as 300 spa guests and their 500 servants) and wrote in Year 1857: »The Kissing people have been collecting for a new church since 1842. The church rests on damp ground and stands on water. It's damp and unhealthy. It is built into narrow streets, with no sun or open air. « In addition, the Hammelburg privateer and foundation founder Karl von Hess , who died in 1872, made 11,000 guilders available in his will to purchase a building site for a church; the amount ultimately went to the construction project for the Sacred Heart Church .

The approval for the construction of the Herz-Jesu parish church finally took place in 1860 under King Maximilian II Joseph . However, the execution of the approved construction work was delayed when the responsible Würzburg master builder Klock and King Maximilian II died; When the Prussian-German War of 1866 broke out, the government was unable to finance the construction "because of the unfavorable circumstances of the time" .

Construction and inauguration

Bust of the builder Andreas Lohrey at the entrance to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche .

In the 1870s, due to the renewed increase in the number of spa guests (9,000 spa guests and 1,000 servants), Pastor Andreas Dietz made another attempt to build a new church, which was finally approved by Ludwig II . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on January 12, 1881; The construction work was financed, among other things, by a prize lottery. The "Neue Würzburger Zeitung" tried to stir up the mood for the building site for the new church , which consisted of "nooks and crannies of houses, stables and dung heaps," and accused the church administration of having forged the building plan against the royal government. The newspaper finally attacked members of the church administration publicly after its reporting came to nothing. On November 15, 1881, the responsible editor was sentenced to a fine of 15 marks on the basis of the allegation of unfair methods in the planning of the building and the implementation of the lottery.

The foundation stone was laid on Saturday, March 25, 1882. The construction of the church under the direction of the builder Andreas Lohrey was based on plans by the Munich architect Karl von Leimbach in the neo-Gothic style . The altars designed by Georg Dengler were implemented, among others, by Valentin Weidner , who had to cede part of the property on which his artist's studio was located in order to build the church (the Catholic parish center of Bad Kissingen is located at the location of Weidner's studio today). Dengler objected to Weidner because he considered Weidner's figures, which reminded him of "sacks of flour" , to be "cold and boring," but Pastor Dietz did not want to provoke a dispute by choosing a new artist because of his age and health. The windows, in turn, were designed by the Viennese artist Johannes Klein (1823–1883). The new church received two bells from the Jakobuskirche in the tones dis1 and fis1, cast by the Lotter company in Bamberg in 1858. These were supplemented by four bells, which were cast by the Heidingsfeld brothers Klaus in the tones h1, ais1, gis1 and h0 and am Were consecrated August 24, 1884 by Dean Andreas Dietz. The big bell weighs 2573 kg, has a diameter of 163 cm and is consecrated in the name of the Heart of Jesus . The new organ was built by Franz Hochrein from Münnerstadt and had 32 registers and around 2,000 pipes .

On August 31, 1884, the church was consecrated by the Würzburg bishop Franz Joseph von Stein . Despite heavy rainy weather, a "crowd counting in the thousands" attended this event. The pontifical office, during which Joseph von Schork delivered the solemn sermon, was carried out by Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein.

1895–1926 (Pastor Friedrich Roth)

From 1905 to 1909, the Amorbach- born artist Max Roßmann made two triptychs under the parish priest Friedrich Roth for the side altars approved by the State Ministry of Art in 1907 and a cycle of wall paintings for the choir and central nave . The total cost of the painting amounted to 40,000 marks, half of which was spent on collections among Kissingen citizens, 8,000 marks by the Bavarian State Ministry, and 4,000 marks by the bathing commissariat; the rest of the sum was covered by the church treasury. Pastor Friedrich Roth was given the two old altars with the help of benefactors to finance the wood carving and the polychroming of the side altars, which were given as a gift to the Garitz community (now part of Bad Kissingen) "for their newly built emergency church" . To the disappointment of the church administration, however, the altars were dismantled and kept in the Garitz parish hall. As a compromise, Garitz was allowed to set up parts of the altars and freely dispose of the rest.

After the rectory built by the Bishopric of Würzburg and repaired by Balthasar Neumann in 1741 was replaced by a new building by Johann Philipp Geigel in 1791 , the Würzburg Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein described the construction of a new rectory as "desirable" in 1900 , but failed the many "dissatisfied people to whom the project does not yet seem necessary" . The parish hall was simply repainted. In the winter of 1918 electrical lighting was installed in the rectory; the necessary costs of 3,000 RM were covered by loan and “repayment over the course of 30 years” .

In 1924, the organ was for the purpose of repairing a charity concert held in the framework of which also made Garitz coming opera singers Baptist Hoffmann with "God be merciful to me" by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the "Agnus Dei" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart occurred.

1926–1945 (Pastor Albert Susann)

In 1936, pastor Albert Susann installed warm air heating and electric bells in the church. Due to the reduction in state subsidies, the office of chime master and sexton had to be merged; the previous chime master Franz Konrad took over from now on both areas of responsibility.

When the church organ lost its functionality in 1940 due to the blower and individual registers, it was replaced by a new organ by the Plattling company Michael Weise; the costs amounted to 34,465 RM and were partly raised by donations. In 1942 the high altar was re-gilded and Roßmann's altarpieces were cleaned on the main and side altars; the total cost of these measures was about 8,000 RM.

During the Second World War , the five bells had to be delivered to the church, but could be fetched back by pastor Josef Stürmer after the end of the war.

1945–1961 (Dean Josef Stürmer)

Marienfigur next to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche .

During his first church administration meeting on September 19, 1945, the new city pastor Josef Stürmer proposed the establishment of a meeting place for the youth in the “farm yard” of the rectory.

In the years 1947 to 1957, the first reconstruction took place under Pastor Stürmer and the Würzburg cathedral builder Hans Skull , during which the neo-Gothic elements of the church were removed. The church interior was whitewashed on a resolution by the church administration. An expert commission with the participation of Professor Schmuderer from the monument office in Munich, cathedral capitular and art historian Eugen Kainz, cathedral builder Hans Skull, church painter Menna and - from 1948 - also under the special influence of Bishop Julius Döpfner , decided to remove "the monumental paintings" (The murals in the central nave were meant). The Munich professor Robert Rabold replaced the central window, which now depicted Christ as the good shepherd in the vineyard.

The redesign of the church dragged on due to problems in the financing until 1953. In addition, unexpected damage occurred to the church roof, the reparation costs of which amounted to 25,000 DM, among other things through a grant from the State Ministry for Education and Culture in the amount of 5,000 DM and a foundation of the John Hugo Kliegl, an honorary citizen of Bad Kissingen who lived in New York, was covered in the amount of DM 10,000. Thanks to Kliegl's donation, it was also possible to redesign the high altar by the sculptor Julius Bausewein , who lives in Randersacker / Würzburg and who also made a new ambo and baptismal font . At the suggestion of pastor Stürmer in February 1956, the Rhenish artist Georg Meistermann renewed the stained glass windows in the nave with the support of Bishop Döpfner. In 1960/1961 a way of the cross made by Meistermann followed.

In September 1947 Pastor Stürmer managed to recover the bells from Harburg near Hamburg , which were lost in the Second World War . The lost clappers of the bell were replaced by the Schwemann company based in Bornum / Harz, so that the bells could be used again in this form from February 1948.

Today's statue of Mary on Marienplatz next to the church dates from 1716 and was erected next to the church in 1958. It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-110 in the Bavarian list of monuments . Before 1958 there was a figure of Mary created in 1905 by the Bad Kissingen sculptor Valentin Weidner ; this is now at the chapel cemetery . The statue of Mary from 1716, which is now located next to the church, bears the inscription "sanCta / DeI genItrIX // preCare / pro nobIs / MIserIs" on the 1 meter high base with a square cross-section; the capitalized letters show the chronogram dating to the year 1716. The dedication inscription is attached to the back of the base. The life-size “ Maria Immaculata ” figure folds her hands in prayer and crushes the head of the snake with her right foot, clad in a sandal. The head of Our Lady is surrounded by a star-studded wreath. It stands on the globe with a cloud from which a putti's head looks. A lamp is mounted in the ground in front of the monument, which illuminates it in the evening.

1961–1981 (Dean Wilhelm Zirkelbach)

In 1966, Dean Wilhelm Zirkelbach added club rooms and ancillary rooms to the rectory built by Johann Philipp Geigel in 1791 . But new tasks in the social area required u. a. a new building for care for the elderly and course pastoral care. Corresponding plans could be considered when in 1973 the English Misses gave up the previously used premises on the property behind the parish church.

In 1975, based on the plans of the architect Hans-Joachim Haberland († 1981), the conversion to the parish hall, which was necessary due to the structural condition of the original buildings, began. The inauguration of the new parish house took place in October 1976 by Pastor Zirkelbach.

After 1981

In 2003 the church was redesigned under the Cathedral Chapter Jürgen Lenssen in accordance with the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . The relics of Saints Kilian , Burkard , Adalbero and Laurentius were moved to their new location in the altar. In the right aisle, the rosary picture by Master HS from 1604 donated by Karl Streit was installed. In the rear part of the right aisle there is the former pilgrimage picture, a late Gothic Madonna from 1450, from the Marienkapelle in a new sandstone stele . Two sculptures by Valentin Weidner were placed under the gallery and in the left aisle : a Sacred Heart statue from 1884 and a statue of St. Anthony of Padua . The end of the left aisle is a retable with bronze reliefs of the fourteen helpers in need , which Anton Rückel from Munich made for the church in 1963. The renovation was completed with the solemn consecration of the church on December 7, 2003 by Bishop em. Paul-Werner Scheele .

architecture

The church is built in the form of an elongated basilica with a single- tower facade and a single-nave choir and has simplified features of the mature neo-Gothic style .

The classic octagonal bell attachment is placed on the west tower. In the vestibule of the west tower located behind the Wimbergprotal, pastor Andreas Dietz, architect Karl von Leimbach, site manager Anton Hurt and sculptor Valentin Weidner (the latter in a self-portrait) portray the main participants in the construction of the church.

Inside there is the cross-rib vaulted nave and the retracted choir with arched arch profiles. The positive effect of the room characteristics was reinforced by the redesign in the period after the Second World War and supplemented by the glass windows created during this time. The right aisle hides a crescent moon Madonna , which was created around the middle of the 15th century, was originally in the Bad Kissingen Marienkapelle and was then brought to the Herz-Jesu-Kirche.

Furnishing

Stained glass window

The current glass windows of the Bad Kissinger Herz-Jesu-Kirche were made in the 1950s. The glass windows on the left and right side of the nave, like the Way of the Cross of the church, were made by the painter Georg Meistermann . The three central choir windows were created from 1949 to 1953 by the Munich artist Robert Rabolt .

The three central choir windows, created by Robert Rabolt, show:

Left choir window Middle choir window Right choir window
Topics from the New Testament (from bottom to top):
the parables of the wise and foolish virgins , the prodigal son , the Good Samaritan and the encounter with the Emmaus disciples 		Jesus as the Good Shepherd as well as, in the lower area, the coat of arms of Bishop Julius Döpfner and his episcopal motto "We however proclaim Christ, who was crucified" (from 1st Corinthians ( 1 Cor 1.23  EU )) Events from the Old Testament (bottom to top):
Noah and the ark , Abraham and the sacrifice of his son Isaac , the Manna miracle and a prophet.

The side windows created by Georg Meistermann show:

Left side of the nave (from left to right) Right side of the nave (from left to right)
Trinity Festival the preaching of the Lord
Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart Festival Advent and Christmas time
All Saints' Day and All Souls Day Easter time of penance (fasting)
End and consummation of the world Easter and Ascension Day
Assumption of the Virgin Mary Pentecost

organ

The organ was built by the organ builder Schuke . The instrument has 53 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Octave 8th'
3. Playing flute 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Night horn 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV-VI 2 ′
10. Scharff IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
12. Trumpet 4 ′
II swell positive C – g 3
13. Principal 8th'
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Wooden flute 8th'
16. Octave 4 ′
17th Reed flute 4 ′
18th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th recorder 2 ′
20th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Scharff IV 1'
22nd Cromorne 8th'
23. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
24. Drone 16 ′
25th Principal 8th'
26th Reed flute 8th'
27. Salicional 8th'
28. Vox coelestis 8th'
29 Octave 4 ′
30th Transverse flute 4 ′
31. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Flageolet 2 ′
33. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
34. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. Basson 16 ′
36. Trumpet 8th'
37. Hautbois 8th'
38. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
39. Pedestal 32 ′
40. Principal 16 ′
41. Sub-bass 16 ′
42. Drone 16 ′
43. Octave 8th'
44. Drone 8th'
45. Gemshorn 8th'
46. Octave 4 ′
47. Dumped 4 ′
48. Night horn 2 ′
49. Rauschpfeife IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
50. Bombard 16 ′
51. Trumpet 8th'
52. shawm 4 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P (also as super octave coupling)

Peal

Some of the bells were cast for the Sacred Heart Church and some were taken over from the Church of St. James. All bells are from the 19th century.

No. Surname Chime Weight Diameter Year of casting and bell founder
1 Heart of jesus h ° 2573 kg 163 cm 1884 Gebr. Klaus Heidingsfeld
2 St. James dis ′ 1306 kg 129 cm 1858 Lotter Bamberg
3 St. Mary f sharp ′ 776 kg 108 cm 1858 Lotter Bamberg
4th St. Joseph g sharp ′ 500 kg 93 cm 1884 Gebr. Klaus Heidingsfeld
5 St. Wendelin ais ′ 350 kg 83 cm 1884 Gebr. Klaus Heidingsfeld
6th St. Andrew H 310 kg 80 cm 1884 Gebr. Klaus Heidingsfeld

literature

  • Franz Mahr: St. Jakobus / Herz-Jesu / Marienkapelle Bad Kissingen , Munich 1978 (No. 1115).
  • Franz Warmuth: 100 Years of the Herz Jesu Parish Bad Kissingen - Contribution to the history of the Parish Bad Kissingen. Bad Kissingen 1984.
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 104 ff .
  • Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bavaria I: Franconia: The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia: BD I , Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. Berlin, 2nd, revised and supplemented edition, 1999, p. 70
  • Gerhard Wulz: The religious communities in Bad Kissingen - diversity in the smallest of spaces , p. 303ff. In: Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (eds.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801–2001, facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 .

Web links

Commons : Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Bad Kissingen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - Act B 30 - Letter from Pastor Gutbrod to the Royal District Office Kissingen from July 12, 1865 regarding the building of a new parish church in Bad Kissingen
  3. ^ Parish archive Bad Kissingen - building of a new parish church (later Herz-Jesu-Kirche 1855 with 1877), preliminary negotiations
  4. ↑ Werner Eberth : Karl von Hess - The unforgettable benefactor of Hammelburg , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2012, p. 71
  5. ^ Parish archive Bad Kissingen - " Saale-Zeitung " from September 2nd and 3rd, 1884
  6. ^ Pfarrarchiv Bad Kissingen - Volume 16 - Minutes of the Catholic Church Administration Bad Kissingen, 1892–1963, meeting on September 13, 1907
  7. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 53 - contract on the picturesque decoration of the Catholic parish church in Bad Kissingen
  8. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 61, meeting on November 7, 1922
  9. ^ Arno Stöcklein: Festschrift Garitz - Church
  10. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 61 - meeting on December 10, 1923
  11. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 61 - meeting on November 19, 1924
  12. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - Volume 2, Liber iurium et reditum Parochiae Kissingensis , 1701, p. 140
  13. ↑ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - construction of the older parish church: "The rectory was built from scratch in 1791 at the expense of the ducal court chamber and the assistance of all the parishioners, Pastor Joh. Adam Huberth, dean, the building industry itself demanded."
  14. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 90, meeting on October 17, 1900
  15. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 90, meeting on March 21, 1901
  16. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 90, meeting on November 27, 1918
  17. ↑ Music was in his blood. In: Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths. Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2004, p. 262
  18. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 79, meeting on April 27, 1936
  19. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 79, meeting on August 10, 1936
  20. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 79, meeting on April 23, 1939
  21. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 79, meeting on October 27, 1940
  22. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - note 79, meeting on August 24, 1942
  23. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - Volume 16, record book of the church administration in Bad Kissingen (1892–1963), meeting on April 27, 1947
  24. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - Herz-Jesu-Kirche, church window Robert Rabold
  25. ^ Georg Meistermann, Works and Documents , publisher: Arcih for fine arts at the Germanic National Museum Nuremberg, Klagenfurt 1981
  26. ^ Franz Mahr: Church leader St. Jakobus - Herz-Jesu - Marienkapelle Bad Kissingen , Munich 1978
  27. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen - Georg Meistermann, correspondence with pastor Josef Stürmer 1958–1961
  28. ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 106 .
  29. ^ Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 55f.
  30. ↑ Werner Eberth: Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptors of Historicism in Franconia , additions to "Kissinger Heft" volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996, p. 39f.
  31. ↑ Festschrift 250 Years of the Institute of the English Misses 1717–1967 , Bamberg 1967
  32. ↑ Ansgar Gründel: 110 Years English Misses in Bad Kissingen , in: 25 Years Staatliche Realschule Bad Kissingen 1956 / 57–1981 / 82
  33. ^ " Saale-Zeitung ", Bad Kissingen, from October 30, 1976
  34. ↑ The Herz-Jesu-Kirche on the homepage of the Bad Kissinger Herz-Jesu-Gemeinde
  35. ^ Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 104 ff .
  36. ↑ Peter Weidisch (Ed.): The stained glass windows of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche , City of Bad Kissingen, City History Information , 2012
  37. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 44.9 ″  E