Coronation Church (Ergenzingen)
The coronation church Maria Königin is a church on the Liebfrauenhöhe in Ergenzingen in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . It belongs to the Schoenstatt Center Liebfrauenhöhe , the seat of the southern German provincialate of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary .
Building history
On the Liebfrauenhöhe in Ergenzingen, today part of Rottenburg am Neckar , a small Schoenstatt Chapel was consecrated on May 1st, 1952 , which soon proved to be too small, so that in 1953 it was decided to build a church next to the chapel . Because of the difficult financing, the foundation stone could not be laid until October 8, 1961. The architects Otto Karl Müller and Franz Brümmendorf were responsible for the design. The sisters M. Sigrid Theimann and M. Roswina Hermes took on the artistic design. The elaborate glass windows were made by the Gustav van Treek company from Munich.
On May 31, 1966, Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Sedlmeier consecrated the church.
Description and equipment
The starting point for the architecture was the idea of a crown of Mary. The walls made of gray concrete columns form a pentagonal floor plan. The spaces between the columns were filled with colored glass concrete windows. A five-fold unfolded tent roof covers the central building, which is surmounted by a large cross. The side opposite the entrance was designed as a large altar island. The altar made of roughly hewn white marble is particularly emphasized by the dark natural stone floor. A 14 hundredweight victory cross hovers above the altar, reminding of the Romanesque depictions of Christ in blessing . On the altar island there is also the miraculous image of the Schoenstatt Movement , but here with an elaborately designed frame showing the coronation insignia , crown , scepter and orb . Like the large altar cross, they are each adorned with rock crystals . The folded roof made it possible to have a continuous ribbon of windows between the concrete pillars and the roof approach. It is designed with blue glass blocks and is intended to refer to the heavenly Jerusalem. The twelve white round surfaces represent the twelve pearl gates. On the entrance side the row of columns is interrupted in favor of a large window made of glass blocks. The theme of the crown and coronation insignia is taken up again.
organ
The organ was built in 1971 by the organ building company Albiez (Lindau) as Opus no.2. The main mechanism , swell mechanism , large and small pedals and the mechanical action mechanism were arranged as individually visible elements in a steel frame above the console. Prof. Alexander Stadtmüller was responsible for the disposition . The instrument has 24 sounding registers on two manuals and a pedal .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 4 mech. Composer combinations , pleno, tongue holder
There is also a lower church under the main church. It contains an elaborate tapestry and a neo-Gothic Way of the Cross by Martin Schiestl from 1887, which was donated to the Liebfrauenhöhe. The altar of the lower church was consecrated on January 20, 1967 by Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht .
literature
- Church leader of the secular institute Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary
Web links
- Official website of the Liebfrauenhöhe
- Liebfrauenhöhe on the website of the Schoenstatt Movement of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 47.6 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 36.6" E