Clinic Chapel To the Good Shepherd (Aschaffenburg)
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 38 " N , 9 ° 11 ′ 15.4" E
The hospital chapel for the good shepherd is a sacred room in the Aschaffenburg Am Hasenkopf Clinic .
history
Six days after the hospital opened, the first service was celebrated in the chapel on October 7, 1989, before it was consecrated. The chapel of the children's clinic, which was abandoned at that time, became the altar stone with the relics of St. Burkard , Felix and Hadrian (both martyrs) were brought to the new chapel, which was consecrated on February 1, 1990 by the Würzburg auxiliary bishop Helmut Bauer .
On July 17, 1990, the orchestra received its organ from Richard Rensch from Lauffen am Neckar.
In addition to the chapel built in 1604 in the Katharinenspital and the St. Katharina hospital church built in 1848 , the hospital chapel for the good shepherd is the third place of worship in the city's nursing home. All three are at the service of ecumenism today . If the Greek-Orthodox community Hagia Ekaterini and the Romanian-Orthodox parish Presentation of the Lord celebrate their service in the hospital church, the Chapel of the Good Shepherd is open to Catholic and Protestant hospital pastoral care and other Christian communities.
The name goes back to a suggestion of the Protestant hospital chaplain at the time, Pastor Eckhart Oursin, who is based on the psalm verse The Lord is my Shepherd as a comforting promise in the sign of illness. This not only convinced his Catholic colleague, Father Franz de Paula Sigmund ( OFMCap ), because in 2010 the parishes Herz Jesu and St. Pius , on whose territory the clinic is located, formed a parish community of the same name.
Furnishing
The two large glass windows of the studio group Helmut Albert and Willibald Blum, which has been in existence since the 1950s and both of which have furnished numerous churches and chapels, are impressive. While the left window depicts Jesus as the good shepherd, the motif of the right window is St. Martin von Tours , patron of the city of Aschaffenburg . Both windows were created in 1989 by Helmut Albert. The altar table , altar cross , candlestick , ambo and tabernacle are bronze works by Willibald Blum from the same year. The altar cross shows Jesus not as a man of pain, but as an exalted, already risen Christ. A statue of the Virgin Mary and a Way of the Cross , both also by Willibald Blum, complete the furnishings.
literature
- Michael Pfeifer: Aschaffenburgs Kirchen , Verlags-Atelier Pfeifer, Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-933915-39-9 .
