Churches in Schweinfurt


Evangelical Lutheran main church St. Johannis		Main Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit

The overview of the churches in Schweinfurt lists all Christian houses of worship in the former imperial city and now the independent city of Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia . The existing and also the abandoned churches are listed. The chapels are mentioned with a brief description.

Church building in the city of Schweinfurt

The Johanniskirche on Martin-Luther-Platz is by far the oldest church building in the city of Schweinfurt. During excavations in the choir of the church, previous buildings from the 11th century were uncovered. The church continued to be built in the following centuries. The entire parish structure of Schweinfurt can be derived from the Johanniskirche. After the margravial fortifications on the Peter's forehead were razed, a Benedictine monastery with a monastery church was built in Schweinfurt.

From a castle chapel in the neighboring town of Oberndorf , today a district of Schweinfurt, another church was built around the same time. The chapel was first mentioned in 1094 and, with the change of patronage, developed into today's Kreuzkirche. In the 14th century the Counts of Henneberg built an imperial castle in Schweinfurt, which was equipped with a Chapel of Our Lady. The Reichsburg was soon closed and the chapel remained.

Schweinfurt on a Merian engraving from 1648:
Spitalkirche zum Heiligen Geist (No. 5), St. Johannis (No. 1), Frauenkirche / St. Salvator (No. 11)

The city of Schweinfurt became Protestant in 1542 and the church buildings were converted into Lutheran houses of worship. In the Second Margrave War , the city was largely destroyed, including the early medieval Kilian's Church in the northeast of the old city was destroyed by flames. After the reconstruction had further anchored the Lutheran denomination in the city, the chapels in the administrative courtyards of the surrounding monasteries were the only Catholic places of worship in the city.

In the centuries that followed, the church population varied very little. The Liebfrauenkapelle of the Reichsburg was renewed in 1719 and consecrated to the world redeemer, Christ Salvator . The hospital church in the west of the old town was also part of the religious life of the Schweinfurt population. In the meantime the monastery chapels had been given up and the imperial city was a purely Lutheran community.

This changed at the beginning of the 19th century when the city's imperial freedom was dissolved and Schweinfurt became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The establishment of the first Catholic parish of the Holy Spirit dates back to 1806 , and was later given its worship center in the former hospital church. In the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the city grew out of the medieval wall, especially due to the booming industry .

The parish of St. Joseph was formed as the first branch of Heilig-Geist in the 1920s. Later the Evangelical Lutheran Gustav Adolf Memorial Church was built west of the city center. The flow of refugees after the Second World War fundamentally changed the relationship between the denominations , so that today Schweinfurt is inhabited by more Catholics than Lutherans. Churches were built in every newly developed district.

For the churches of the post-war period, the respective parishes, especially on the Catholic side, won important architects for the buildings. This may also be due to the pioneering role of the diocese of Würzburg in modern church building. The churches of St. Anton, St. Michael and St. Kilian designed by Hans Skull are particularly noteworthy. On the Protestant side, Olaf Andreas Gulbransson created the Church of the Resurrection, a building of New Objectivity . At the same time, other Christian denominations such as a Greek Orthodox community and Protestant free churches established themselves in the city.

Churches

The list is based on the book Evangelical Churches in Schweinfurt by Erich Schneider for the Evangelical Lutheran churches, as well as on the anthology Searching for traces by Erich Schneider and Uwe Müller for the Catholic churches. The allocation to the unofficial city districts is based on the location in the city area.

The churches are arranged according to the year they were built. Disused buildings are marked with a cross (†), Evangelical Lutheran churches ( Evangelical Lutheran ) have a year in brackets for the first Lutheran service or the rededication. Catholic churches are with cath. marked. All Protestant Lutheran churches today belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Deanery in Schweinfurt , the Catholic to the Deanery of Schweinfurt-Stadt .

St. Johannis

ev.-luth. (1542)	11th century

The Johanniskirche is the oldest church in the city and is still the center of the Schweinfurt city center. The previous buildings of the church were built in the 11th century. Around 1200 work began on building the present building. The church was first mentioned in 1325, however. After the city became Protestant in 1542, the church became the Lutheran city parish church. The church was damaged in the Markgräflerkrieg.

After the reconstruction, St. Johannis was not changed extensively until the 20th century. The church was also affected by the bombings in World War II, and the people of Schweinfurt used the immediate post-war period to rebuild. The exterior of the church has changed frequently. The church is a three-aisled basilica with a single-aisled choir and a two-aisled transept . There is a tower above the choir.

The interior decoration came into the church at different times. The so-called sandstone Madonna from the late 13th century is particularly noteworthy. Its design represents the transition between Romanesque and Gothic . The Schweinfurt denomination picture dates from the end of the 16th century . It is the oldest of the pictures of this kind in southern Germany. Furthermore, there are many epitaphs of Schweinfurt citizens in the Johanniskirche . 50 ° 2 '46.3 " N , 10 ° 13' 59" E50.046182 10.233048

Benedictine monastery church

cath. (†)	1015

The church of the Benedictine monastery on the Peterstirn is probably the second oldest church in Schweinfurt. Originally, the ancestral palace of the margraves of Schweinfurt was to be found on the Peterstirn . First a nunnery was established in 1015 a little below the castle, which was probably also equipped with a church. Later a Benedictine monastery was built. As late as the 11th century, sources reported that there was a bell tower next to the church. In 1437 the church was probably demolished. 50 ° 3 '4.8 " N , 10 ° 15' 10.5" E50.05132309 10.25291294

Kreuzkirche

ev.-luth. (1542)	11th century

The Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche in the Schweinfurt district of Oberndorf forms the center of the formerly independent village. In 1094, a chapel dedicated to St. Lawrence was first mentioned in the village. The chapel was given to Theres Monastery by the Schweinfurt margraves . The chapel was enlarged around 1500 before the Reformation was carried out in Oberndorf in 1542 . In 1650 the new Jesus Christ Church was built with the former castle chapel as a baptistery.

The village church was changed in 1938. The old nave and choir were added in 1938. Until 1940 the church was expanded and rebuilt. From then on it was called the Kreuzkirche. Today the church is a hall with a retracted choir. The medieval choir tower with its French dome still protrudes in the southeast . The southeast orientation is a special feature of medieval churches.

Due to the renovation of the church, only a few elements of the original equipment have been preserved. Behind the altar, in the choir niche, there is a wooden crucifixion group from the old church. In 1577 the stone pulpit with a relief of Christ crucified came into the church. A circumferential gallery was built in the 20th century and decorated with the reliefs of some saints . 50 ° 1 '37.5 " N , 10 ° 12" 19.7 " E50.02708 10.20547

St. Nicholas

cath. (†)	1294

The infirmary chapel of St. Nikolaus in the area of the old Schweinfurt cemetery was first mentioned in 1294. In the so-called infirmary , lepers were separated from the rest of the population. In order to carry out religious activities, chapels were often built next to the infirmary, which were mostly consecrated to so-called infirmary saints. Later it was planned to hand over the chapel to the Premonstratensian Order. However, Schweinfurt citizens acquired them and the infirmary. A [tympanum] of the chapel has been preserved.

The Carmelites moved into the buildings in 1366/1367 through the foundation of a Schweinfurt citizen . In 1405 they consecrated the choir of the church, which was built on the foundations of the demolished St. Nicholas' Chapel. In 1502 the nave was vaulted. After the Reformation, the conventual Johann Nestmann handed over the administration of the monastery to the city of Schweinfurt. The so-called Old Cemetery was later built there; today it is a city park. 50 ° 2 '30.1 " N , 10 ° 13' 51.8" E50.041696 10.231061

St. Salvator

ev.-luth. (1532)	1310

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Salvator goes back to a previous building, the Frauenkirche, from the late Middle Ages . In 1310, the Counts of Henneberg built a so-called Reichsburg in the northeast of Schweinfurt city center. There a chapel was consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who in 1406 had its own pastor . She alone survived the demolition of the Reichsburg. The chapel had.

In the early modern period , the church was misused for a long time. It could only be rebuilt between 1717 and 1719. Now it has been consecrated to the world redeemer, Christ Salvator. Today the church is the only larger baroque building in the city. The church choir dates from the late Middle Ages. Its tower ends with a baroque dome.

The interior of the church is very simple and has only a few furnishings. A portrait of Georg Spalatin refers to the first Lutheran sermon in Schweinfurt, which was given by the reformer in 1532. Parts of the church destroyed in the Second World War and the altar and pulpit had to be rebuilt in the post-war period . Olaf Andreas Gulbransson provided the designs . 50 ° 2 '42.2 " N , 10 ° 14' 15.7" E50.045068 10.237693

Old St. Kilian

ev.-luth. (1542, †)	before 14th century

The Church of St. Kilian (Kilianskirche I) was northeast of downtown Schweinfurt in what is now the villa district of Kiliansberg . The church was probably already part of the old town of Schweinfurt before it was rebuilt at its current location in the 12th century. The church was destroyed in 1554 during the second city ruin and was not rebuilt afterwards. Today's Catholic Kilian Church (Kilian Church III) was built in the 20th century. 50 ° 2 '52.8 " N , 10 ° 14' 26.7" E50.04799 10.24074

Holy Spirit Church

cath.	before 1364

Demolition of the hospital church in 1896

The Catholic Holy Spirit Church is the focus of Catholic life in Schweinfurt. It goes back to a hospital church that was also consecrated to the Holy Spirit . The hospital in which the city's sick were housed was donated before 1364. In 1566 the church was rebuilt. It was endowed with many epitaphs . In 1806 the Schweinfurt Catholics were able to set up their own parish and moved into the former hospital church.

In 1896 the dilapidated church was demolished. Today's church was built between 1897 and 1902 as a neo-Romanesque basilica based on plans by the architect Anton Leipold. This presents itself as the mighty rectangular tower rises above the west bar as a show facade. Their choir was modeled on the Cathedral of San Vigilio in Trento. The church building is richly structured with Romanesque structures.

Most of the furnishings date from the 1960s and 1970s, after the church was damaged in the Second World War. Above the altar is a crucifix by the artist Heinrich Söller , below is the tabernacle and a sculpture of the blessing Christ . The Steinmeyer organ with 46 registers and three manuals, as well as a pedal on the west gallery, came into the church in 1967. 50 ° 2 '33.3 " N , 10 ° 13' 47.2" E50.04257 10.22977

St. Joseph

cath.	1921

The second oldest Catholic church building in Schweinfurt is the Josefskirche in the Oberndorf district. Initially, the community was looked after from the Heilig-Geist-Kirche, later it was re-parish to Bergrheinfeld . The first emergency church was built in 1921 , and the Joseph parish was founded soon after. After the emergency church was destroyed in World War II, a new, again provisional church building was built in 1945. The current building was erected between 1953 and 1954.

In its external appearance, the church is adapted to the workshops in the area. It ends with a flat gable roof , in the immediate vicinity, typical for the church buildings of the post-war period in Schweinfurt, a free-standing campanile was built. There is no classic choir room. In the unitary room, the altar rotates in the center.

The interior decoration comes from some of the well-known Main Franconian artists of the 1950s. The monumental altarpiece with God the Father and a lamb was created by Franz Nagel . It corresponds to the ceiling painting with the title End Times, also by Nagel . Originally Heinrich Söller also worked for the church, but most of his furnishings were removed. The oldest element is a Maria Immaculata by Oswald Onghers . 50 ° 1 '50.2 " N , 10 ° 12' 10" E50.03059956 10.20277978

New St. Kilian

cath.	1926-1927

The third Catholic church in Schweinfurt is the new Kilian's Church. It originated in the northern part of the city center. In 1926 and 1927 the architects Peter Krammer and Theodor Fischer built a first, neo-baroque church building. This Kilian's Church was largely destroyed during the Second World War in 1944/1945. The Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans skull was won for a new church . The church was consecrated in 1953.

Skull incorporated the remains in the entrance area and on the choir wall into the new building. The house of worship was planned as a Sunday and a weekday church, which were both connected. The transition is formed by a canopy extending far into the nave . The nave walls are bevelled so that they point towards the altar. The church with its block-like basic structures and flat roofs is in the tradition of the Weimar Bauhaus .

The furnishings are dominated by a church window created by Georg Meistermann , which is the largest in Germany in terms of glass area. It is designed abstractly, only the twelve fish are figurative elements. Other pieces of equipment come from Heinrich Söllers and Peter Vollerts. The bronze crucifix by Julius Bausenwein from Rimpar dates back to 1954 . 50 ° 2 '45.1 " N , 10 ° 13' 11.5" E50.04587 10.21986

Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche

ev.-luth.	1929

The Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche on Friedenstrasse was built as an Evangelical Lutheran parish church. Already at the beginning of the 20th century there were plans to build another church. However, the building could only be completed in the 1920s. The architect was the Swiss Hans Hofmann . The church was damaged in the Second World War, but could be restored poorly by 1948. It was rebuilt in 1971 and 1972.

The architect Hans Hofmann created a simple hall with a hipped roof . The choir tower with the characteristic onion dome was only added later . Initially, the altar stood in the choir niche before being placed on a pedestal in the center of the church when it was renovated in the 1970s. The community center with its L-shape was later attached to the memorial church.

Most of the furnishings came to the church through private foundations. Although some objects were destroyed during World War II, many elements have been preserved. The oldest piece is a baroque crucifix from the Matthäuskirche in Zell . The centerpiece of the furnishings is the lectern created by Karl Hemmeter . It was created from a single trunk of oak and depicts a messenger carrying a Bible on his shoulders. 50 ° 2 '38.8 " N , 10 ° 13' 24.1" E50.0441174 10.22336578

St. Anton

gr.-orth. (1993)	1945

The church center of the Gartenstadt district is the Anton Church . The parish was founded in 1937, the Second World War prevented the building of a separate church. In the years after 1945, the congregation celebrated its services in a barrack on Deutschhöfer Strasse. The Fathers of the Franciscan Minorites , who set up a monastery nearby, pushed ahead with the construction of a church. The church was built by the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Skull.

After the construction site caused some difficulties, the church grew between 1950 and 1952 until it was completed. The free-standing campanile in the southeast of the church was not built until 1955. The architecture of the church is characterized by large cubic forms that are grouped around a central dome. Skull built a central room, anticipating the reforms of the Second Vatican Council . St. Anton forms a transition between forms from the pre-war and post-war periods.

The furnishings are characterized by the glass windows from 1970 with abstract shapes from the hand of the artist Gustl G. Kirchner. The artists Heinrich Söller, Hans Wehner and Peter Vollert also worked on the church. St. Anton was converted into a Greek Orthodox church in 1993 , and a short time later the Franciscans also left their residence at the church. 50 ° 3 '3.9 " N , 10 ° 13' 48.2" E50.051077 10.230042

Mary help

cath.	1955-1956

The Catholic parish church Maria Hilf is closely connected with the Anton church. The church was built in the so-called garden city. Initially, the services were held in an emergency church that had emerged from a kindergarten . In 1950 the parish Maria Hilf was founded. However, it was not until 1955 that the church itself could be built. Maria Hilf was completed in 1956.

The Schweinfurt architect Peter Krammer built the Maria-Hilf-Kirche in reinforced concrete frame construction . The house of God takes up classic, cubic forms and is illuminated by two large windows. Unlike many other post-war churches in Schweinfurt, the bell tower was built directly onto the church itself. It ends with an unevenly arranged gable roof and is 32 m high.

The interior of the church is dominated by the altarpiece by the artist Karl Clobes . The picture shows St. Mary with the baby Jesus and, with its many colors, leads over to the church ceiling. The windows in the church, which correspond to the altarpiece, came from Schweinfurt's Gustl Kirchner. The baptismal font created Josef teaching Itter in the 1950s. It was rebuilt in the 1980s by the Würzburg artist Willi Grimm. 50 ° 3 '23.7 " N , 10 ° 13' 3.6" E50.05657172 10.21767494

Trinity Church

ev.-luth.	1958-1959

The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church is located in the Musicians' Quarter northwest of downtown Schweinfurt. Here, the proportion of Evangelical Lutheran residents grew strongly in the post-war period, so that the split from the Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche was considered. Between 1958 and 1959, the church was finally built and placed under the triune God.

The Dreieinigkeitskirche presents itself as a simple square building. The church building is moderately high and ends with a crossed gable roof. On the west side a campanile was built on a cylinder floor plan. The outside of the church was faced with red bricks and only a few rectangular windows let light through. On the outside, a few concrete strips structure the building. The interior of the church is a square room with an altar island standing on a circular pedestal .

In contrast to many other Schweinfurt churches, the original furnishings were able to outlast the decades, so that the church is presented as a single piece. The liturgical objects are very simple and were made from shell limestone . Only the crucifix above the altar was created by Walther Senf from Munich in 1960. Besides the crucified one, it also shows the Holy Spirit and God the Father as a reference to the patrons of the Trinity Church. 50 ° 2 '44 " N , 10 ° 12' 28.3" E50.04554991 10.20786238

Church of the Resurrection

ev.-luth.	1959

Another Evangelical Lutheran post-war church is the Resurrection Church in the Bergl district . It was created at the same time as the Trinity Church. Munich-based Olaf Andreas Gulbransson had been won over as the architect. On May 11, 1958, the foundation stone for the new church in Brombergstrasse was laid. The inauguration took place on Eternal Sunday 1959. The bell tower was not finished until two years later.

Gulbransson created one of his most important works with the Church of the Resurrection. A community center was set up in the basement, the main floor houses the church. The shapes of the church are made up of octagons and the so-called Greek cross . Deep-drawn roof areas dominate the building in the form of quarter pyramids. The tower was built as a campanile some distance away. The Resurrection Church is one of the most important modern church buildings in Bavaria.

The architect also designed large parts of the interior. The font and lights were created according to the forms of the New Objectivity. However, Gulbransson's concept was modified. Today the centerpiece of the church furnishings is the large wheel chandelier based on a design by Munich professor Franz Rickert . The chandelier was made by Erwin Sattler. The altar cross also came from Rickert. 50 ° 2 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 13 ″ E50.03919 10.2036

Christ the King Church

cath.	1962-1965

The first church in the 1960s was the Catholic Christ the King's Church in the Bergl district southwest of the city center. In 1962 the parish was established by splitting off the Catholics in the Bergl from the Josefskirche. On December 7, 1964, Pastor Eugen Sterzinger laid the foundation stone for the new parish church. The plans come from the Schweinfurt architect Heinz-Günther Mömken; the church was consecrated on December 19, 1965.

The church soon received the nickname “Tent of God” because the design of the Christ the King's Church is reminiscent of a tent . A multi-part parish center was located in front of it in the west. It is formed around an inner courtyard, to which a 40 m high, rectangular bell tower was built in the northwest. The church itself has a tented roof drawn down deep on a rectangular floor plan. The roof is formed by concrete surfaces that are divided into seven sections.

In contrast to the other Catholic churches in the city, the equipment of the Christ the King's Church is extremely sparse. The glass concrete windows by Eberhard Sigel from Munich first catch the eye. They came inside in 1965 and were kept in the colors blue-red-yellow. In addition, the artists Günter Metz contributed a crucifix, Ludwig Bossle most of the liturgical elements and Heinrich Söller a figure of Mary for the interior decoration. In 1971, the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast five bronze bells with the chimes: cis' - e '- fis' - a' - h 'for the Christkönigskirche. It is one of the last larger chimes that Otto cast. 50 ° 2 '18.4 " N , 10 ° 11' 59.1" E50.03843741 10.19974593

Christ Church

ev.-luth.	1964-1965

The Evangelical Lutheran house of God for the northern part of the city is the Christ Church. It goes back to an emergency church from the 1930s, which was only converted into a real parish church in the 1960s. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on June 13, 1964; it was only consecrated on November 21, 1965. The Christ Church also looks after the Protestant communities in Dittelbrunn and Hambach .

The architecture of the Christ Church is characterized by simple, cubic forms. The church itself is designed like a halved cube and forms a unit with the adjacent campanile on a square floor plan and the rectory . Inside, the important elements of the Schweinfurt post-war churches can also be found in the Christ Church: The interior was designed as a unit without a choir or aisles .

The center of the liturgical furnishings are the altar, pulpit and baptismal font. All three were made by the Niklashauser Hofmann company from Franconian shell limestone. The goldsmith Margarete Korn-Diergarten made the seven-armed candlestick on the altar pedestal in 1967. Instead of an altar sheet, a broken cross set into the wall was placed behind the altar. It was created by the painter Curd Lessig from Würzburg. 50 ° 3 '27.1 " N , 10 ° 13' 23.8" E50.05751963 10.22326899

St. Michael

cath.	1964-1968

The Catholic St. Michaels Church, together with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, forms the center of the Musikerviertel district. The parish church on Florian-Geyer-Straße was built between 1964 and 1968. The plans were drawn by the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Skull and erected with the help of Gabriele Ebert and Otto Pfister. First the parish center was built , later the church.

The St. Michaelskirche consists of a parish center to which the actual church was built in the west. A low tower was added to the parish center as an entrance portal. He has no bells . From here one reaches an inner courtyard with a cloister-like corridor around which the community buildings are grouped. The actual sacred building presents itself as functional. It has a square floor plan.

The centerpiece of the furnishings are the individual pieces of the Way of the Cross by the American professor Walter Gaudnek . They were first installed here in 1995 and created in the style of Pop Art . Originally, however, the works of Ludwig Schaffrath were the dominant elements on the windows. The window openings in the church have an area of 330 m² and consist of hand-blown real antique panes connected with lead rods. The pictorial program does not refer to the history of salvation. 50 ° 2 ′ 45.8 " N , 10 ° 12 ′ 16.2" E50.04605452 10.20449352

St. Peter and Paul

cath.	1966-1968

The Catholic center of the Hochfeld / Steinberg district is the Peter and Paul Church. It was built on May 1, 1964, separating the parish from St. Anton. Just two years later, on December 3, 1966, the Würzburg cathedral capitular Schultes laid the foundation stone for the new parish church. The church was consecrated on December 17, 1968 by Bishop Josef Stangl , it was subordinated to Saints Peter and Paul.

Lothar Schlör from Munich could be won as an architect. The church presents itself as a castle-like building. The only material used is concrete. It is probably the first church building north of the Alps that consists only of lightweight concrete . The church stands on an almost square plan. The complex is lit through windows in the south of the altar and a strip of light on the side walls. The baptistery has the characteristic pyramid roof .

Similar to the Michaelskirche, the Way of the Cross dominates the interior. It was created in concrete by Max Walter. Another invisible influence on the furnishings of the Peter-und-Pauls-Kirche is the lighting, which is reminiscent of medieval houses of worship with the bundling of light. The central reverse glass altarpiece comes from the workshop of Erich Schickling and was kept in the expressionistic- naive style. 50 ° 3 '31.3 " N , 10 ° 14' 38.1" E50.05869438 10.24390859

St. Luke

ev.-luth.	1966-1969

The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Lukas is located in the Hochfeld / Steinberg district in the east of the Schweinfurt city area. The Munich professor Gerhard Weber could be won as architect . The church was built between 1966 and 1969 and was the youngest Lutheran parish to be baptized Luke Parish. In 1982, a community center was established in the former Gut Deutschhof and assigned to the church.

The Lukaskirche was built on a high concrete base. The church itself is presented in the form of a tent. The complex is surrounded by other buildings, such as the community center. There is a community room on the ground floor of the church, above which the worship room was set up on the upper floor. As the only church in the city, the Lukaskirche did not have a bell tower. The bells, on the other hand, are hung in a bell chamber on Segnitzstrasse.

Instead of an altar painting, an over 8 m high glass altar painting rises in front of a simple window front. The work of art was created by Johannes Hewel from Rot am See and was inaugurated on March 1, 1992. The church stalls are not aligned parallel to the altar; instead, the central aisle forms an axis with the baptismal font. It is designed as a sphere surrounded by a flat bowl. The font, altar and pulpit are made of white marble . 50 ° 3 '24.2 " N , 10 ° 14' 39.1" E50.05672283 10.24420395

St. Maximilian Kolbe

cath.	1982-1988

After the Deutschhof district was opened up, the Catholic parish church of St. Maximilian Kolbe was built here as the youngest church building in the city of Schweinfurt. It emerged from the parish of St. Peter and Paul and was split off on January 1, 1981. First the service was held in the rectory. Initially, the church was planned as an ecumenical center. Between 1987 and 1988 the church was built as a purely Catholic place of worship.

The architect Dag Schröder from Schweinfurt planned the church on a hillside property. A weekday church was built in the basement, above the church was set on a square floor plan. It ends with an asymmetrical , raised pyramid roof, which was also partially glazed. The structure refers to regional traditions. The bell tower stands free next to it and was built as a gate tower .

As the main artist, the Würzburg artist Hubert Elsässer created most of the furnishings. First of all, there are the bronze doorknobs with the symbol of the community ship. The altar versus populum with reliefs, the ambo and the tabernacle column made of shell limestone were also made by Elsässer. The main altar has an expressionist reredos and draws on the tradition of the multi-part panel painting. It was created by Hermann Gottfried from Bergisch Gladbach . 50 ° 4 '1.3 " N , 10 ° 15' 12.8" E50.06703495 10.25355113

Chapels

There are also chapels scattered across the city . Before the Reformation, they were mostly a meeting point for church processions or in the tithe courts of the surrounding monasteries. Most of these sacred buildings were abandoned after the Reformation. It was not until the 20th century that mainly Catholic chapels were built in the city's old people's homes and hospitals.

Bethlehem Chapel (†): The chapel was in front of the so-called Upper Gate and was used by the processions of the Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit. 50 ° 2 '57.1 " N , 10 ° 13' 52.6" E

Wolfgang's Chapel in the Ebracher Hof (†): The cloister courtyard of the Ebrach Abbey was located in the southeast of the old town since 1431. After the adoption of the Reformation, the Schweinfurters tried to force the Catholic cloister out of the city. In the courtyard there was a chapel for the monks of the monastery, which was consecrated to St. Wolfgang. By the middle of the 18th century at the latest, services were no longer celebrated in the chapel. Today the pointed arched windows with tracery are reminiscent of the former chapel. 50 ° 2 ′ 40 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 11.5" E50.04445 10.23654

Chapel in the Bildhäuser Hof (†): In addition to Ebrach, the Bildhausen Monastery also had a courtyard in the city. After the courtyard was destroyed in the Margrave War in 1554, the city tried to prevent rebuilding. It came to a process that was finally held before the Reich Chamber of Commerce. The monastery won the trial and rebuilt the courtyard. He also received a chapel that still existed in 1930. 50 ° 2 '44.2 " N , 10 ° 13' 55" E

House chapel of the sister community in the St. Josef Hospital 50 ° 2 ′ 37 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 31.5 ″ E

House chapel in Maria-Theresia-Heim 50 ° 2 ′ 12.9 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 4.2 ″ E

Ecumenical house chapel in the Friederike Schäfer retirement home 50 ° 2 ′ 35.4 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 3.4 ″ E

Weekday Church of St. Franziskus in the Kardinal-Döpfner-Haus 50 ° 3 ′ 23.8 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 5.8 ″ E

House chapel in Maria-Frieden 50 ° 3 ′ 5.1 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 46.6 ″ E

Ecumenical house chapel St. Stephanus in Leopoldina Hospital 50 ° 3 ′ 6.4 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 38.1 ″ E

Chapel in the Marienstift 50 ° 3 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 45.7 ″ E

House chapel in the Kolping Education Center 50 ° 2 ′ 48.9 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 4.8 ″ E

Cemetery chapel in the main cemetery 50 ° 3 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 40.4 ″ E

Evangelical Free Church Parish Hall 50 ° 3 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 15.7 ″ E

literature

Valentin Clemens Heßdörfer: Historical notes about a former infirmary for St. Nicholas as well as about the hospital, the church and parish of St. Geist in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 1896.
Thomas Horling: Catholics in the Protestant imperial city of Schweinfurt 1542–1803 . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 17-48.
Michael Pfrang: From the parish family to the city pastoral. Development lines of future structures of the Schweinfurt parishes . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 223-238.
Alfred Schelter: The Protestant church building of the 18th century in Franconia (= The Plassenburg Bd. 41) . Kulmbach 1981.
Walter Schilling: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . Würzburg 2012.
Erich Schneider, Roman v. Götz: Evangelical Churches in Schweinfurt - Large Art Guide Vol. 201 . Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3795411432
Erich Schneider: Catholic church buildings after 1945 in Schweinfurt . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 271-305.
Erich Schneider: Monasteries and monasteries in Mainfranken . Wuerzburg 1993.
Erich Schneider: Schweinfurt and its monuments - architecture-art-technology . Verlagshaus Weppert, Schweinfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-9803695-9-6
Christian Schümann: From the Laurentius Chapel via the Jesus Christ Church to the Kreuzkirche. On the Protestant church history of Schweinfurt-Oberndorf . In: Johannes Strauss, Kathi Petersen (Hrsg.): Streiflichter on the church history in Schweinfurt (= writings on the 450th anniversary of the Reformation in Schweinfurt) . Schweinfurt 1992. pp. 125-136.
Thomas Wehner: The development of the parish structures in Schweinfurt since the founding of the Heilig Geist parish . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 145-162.
Thomas Wehner: Real Schematism of the Diocese of Würzburg. Deanery Schweinfurt-Stadt . Wuerzburg 2000.

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Schneider, Erich: Evangelical Churches in Schweinfurt . P. 8.
^ Horling, Thomas: Catholics in the Protestant imperial city of Schweinfurt . P. 25.
↑ Schelter, Alfred: The Protestant church building of the 18th century in Franconia . P. 188.
↑ See: Pfrang, Michael: From the parish family to the city pastoral .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Schneider, Erich: Evangelical churches in Schweinfurt .
↑ Schilling, Walter: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . P. 30.
↑ Schümann, Christian: From the Laurentius Chapel via the Jesus Christ Church to the Kreuzkirche .
↑ Heßdörfer, Valentin Clemens: Historical notes on a former infirmary for St. Nicholas . P. 14 f.
^ Schneider, Erich: Monasteries and monasteries in Mainfranken . P. 118 f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Wehner, Thomas: The development of the parish structures in Schweinfurt .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Schneider, Erich: Catholic church buildings after 1945 in Schweinfurt .
^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 104, 573, 577 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 121, 516, 536 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
^ Horling, Thomas: Catholics in the Protestant imperial city of Schweinfurt . Pp. 21-26.
↑ Wehner, Thomas: Real Schematism of the Diocese of Würzburg . Pp. 30, 35, 36, 53.

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[1] Schneider, Erich: Evangelical Churches in Schweinfurt . P. 8.

[2] Horling, Thomas: Catholics in the Protestant imperial city of Schweinfurt . P. 25.

[3] Schelter, Alfred: The Protestant church building of the 18th century in Franconia . P. 188.

[4] See: Pfrang, Michael: From the parish family to the city pastoral .

[Schneider_Evangelische-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Schneider, Erich: Evangelical churches in Schweinfurt .

[6] Schilling, Walter: The castles, palaces and mansions of Lower Franconia . P. 30.

[Schümann,_Christian-7] Schümann, Christian: From the Laurentius Chapel via the Jesus Christ Church to the Kreuzkirche .

[8] Heßdörfer, Valentin Clemens: Historical notes on a former infirmary for St. Nicholas . P. 14 f.

[9] Schneider, Erich: Monasteries and monasteries in Mainfranken . P. 118 f.

[Wehner_Pfarrentwicklung-10] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Wehner, Thomas: The development of the parish structures in Schweinfurt .

[Schneider_Kirchenbauten-11] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Schneider, Erich: Catholic church buildings after 1945 in Schweinfurt .

[12] Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 104, 573, 577 .

[13] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 121, 516, 536 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

[14] Horling, Thomas: Catholics in the Protestant imperial city of Schweinfurt . Pp. 21-26.

[15] Wehner, Thomas: Real Schematism of the Diocese of Würzburg . Pp. 30, 35, 36, 53.