Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

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The Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart e. V. is an association of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese in Rottenburg am Neckar, founded on June 23, 1852 . The purpose of the association is the revival and renewal of Christian and church art . Since 1938 the association has published a yearbook under the title Sacred Art . The association has six hundred members.

history

After years of tension between the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Württemberg due to the dissolution of the Diocese of Constance and the ecclesiastical territories , four diocesan clergymen Franz Josef Schwarz ( Böhmenkirch ), Friedrich Laib ( Rechberghausen ), Ignaz Hermann ( Eybach ) and Eduard Ortlieb ( Drackenstein ) founded the Rottenburg Diöcesan Association for Christian Art in Geislingen an der Steige . As early as 1854, the association published its own newspaper called Kirchenschmuck . The association made it its task to renew and revive Christian and ecclesiastical art in the areas of parament , goldsmith's art , church painting , church music and church building .

Over the centuries, the association became a body whose judgment and recommendations were heard in the Department of Church Building and Christian Art , the Episcopal Building Office and the Commission for Sacred Art in the Ordinariate of the Diocese . An amendment to the statutes from 2004 specified the purpose of the association. It is intended to promote understanding of old and new art, to research and present it scientifically and to advocate contemporary art in the church. The association should be a meeting place for artists and the church. The association works in the spirit of the liturgy and in the service of pastoral care .

Others

The association held religious retreats for artists until 1966 in the Beuron monastery , later together with the Archdiocese of Freiburg on the island of Reichenau . On the initiative of Walter Kasper , the association donated the art prize of the Diocese of Rottenburg for the first time in 1998 on the occasion of the 1,600. Anniversary of the death of the diocese saint Martin of Tours . In 2003, the prize was awarded as part of the 175th anniversary of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Every year the association organizes Ash Wednesday in the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart under the patronage of the bishop .

Former board members of the association

Sculpture in front of a church

Board of Directors

Elected voting members since 2006:

Occupation or position held Surname place Function in the association
director Dr. Engelbert Paulus Dürbheim Chairman
architect Ralf Schneider Haigerloch 1. Deputy Chairman
sculptor Michaela A. Fischer Auenstein-Ilsfeld 2nd Deputy Chair
Pastor Nicki Schaepen Bad Schussenried Secretary
Head of the Institute for Further Education Christoph Schmitt Rottenburg Cashier
Pastor i. R. Dieter Müller Waiblingen
sculptor Matthias Eder Leonberg
sculptor Rudolf Kurz Stimpfach / Ellwangen

Members by virtue of their office (without voting rights):

  • Cathedral Chapter Dr. Gerhard Schneider
  • Diocesan master builder Thomas Schwieren
  • Diocesan Conservator Dr. Melanie Prange

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gebhard Fürst : Sermon for the 150th anniversary of the association v. June 23, 2002, sold. on January 24, 2010
  2. ↑ see tombstone at the St. Christina church in Ravensburg