Liebfrauenkirche (Leipzig)
The Liebfrauenkirche in Leipzig - Lindenau is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Philipp Neri . It is located on the southern border of Lindenau at Karl-Heine-Straße 112 near the Leipzig-Plagwitz train station . The building, built in neo-Romanesque style, is a listed building .
history
The population growth due to industrialization at the end of the 19th century also led to the influx of numerous Catholics to Leipzig, so that the only church in the city built since the Reformation , St. Trinity from 1847, was soon no longer sufficient. In 1903 a branch of the Trinity Parish was established in the west of Leipzig, which in 1904 became an independent parish. First the parsonage and a neighboring Catholic school were built before the foundation stone was laid in 1907 for the construction of the church adjacent to the parsonage. This could be consecrated on September 27, 1908 as St. Mary's Church . The plans came from the Leipzig architect Anton Käppler .
In the following years, the interior of the church, which was called the Liebfrauenkirche from 1923 , was redesigned. In 1913 it was completely painted in strong colors with the motifs of the Seven Joys of Mary . In 1915 the first organ was inaugurated, which was bought by the Leipzig University Church and implemented by the Johannes Jahn company , Dresden. Of the three bronze bells from 1908, two had to be given in 1917 to be melted down for war purposes. In 1919 gas lighting in the church was replaced by electric lighting.
In 1930 a community of the Congregation of Oratorians founded by Philipp Neri in 1575 was brought into being at the Liebfrauen parish . Last but not least, the liturgical renewal and understandable design of the Mass, but also the worn paintwork led to the renewal of the interior of the Church of Our Lady in 1934/1935. This was in the hands of the architect Rudolf Schwarz . This included the white painting of the church and the harmonious design of the colored side windows by the painter Anton Wendling . The sacramental altar in the right aisle and the weekday chapel were created.
The Liebfrauenkirche survived the Second World War almost unscathed; the precious colored windows had been removed. The decisions of the Second Vatican Council made it necessary to redesign the sanctuary in 1964. The previous altar with ciborium was replaced by the one still available today, with the priest turning to the community, and the pulpit by two anvils .
In 1962/1963 the church and rectory underwent an external repair, and in 1981/1982 the towers were re-covered.
architecture
The three-aisled church is about 41 m long and 24 m wide. It is a plastered brick building with a limestone-faced basement, to which the rectory adjoins to the east. The church has two low square towers at the westwork and a main tower at the southeast end of the church. The western towers are 33.5 meters high, the main tower 45.5 meters. The towers carry pyramid roofs over triangular gables.
The aisles appear from the outside as three aisle chapels, each with three long round arched windows in a larger round arch. The upper clad windows are grouped into three groups of five. The only decoration on the west gable is a rose window .
A richly structured arched portal on the south-west tower serves as a street entrance to the church. A staircase leads from a vestibule to the higher nave. Six polished granite columns with limestone capitals support the round arches that separate the aisles from the main nave. Although the Parsonage is on the east side, a circular inside is apse with Rabitzkuppel formed.
The upper end of the main and side aisles are flat, discreetly decorated wooden ceilings. The west side is occupied by the organ gallery, which is supported by two further granite columns and under which a weekday chapel is set up.
The different colored side windows of the church contrast with the neutral white painting of the room.
Furnishing
The main altar is a block of reddish brown marble flanked by six candlesticks. Crucifix and Easter candle complete the ensemble. There are two anvils made of gray marble on the sides. The priest's bench runs along the rear wall of the apse. The only decoration of the non-image apse is a seven-flame enamelled crown of lights from 1980 above the altar.
In the left aisle there is a Marian altar with a floor to ceiling wall mosaic from 1951. The right aisle contains the sacrament altar. The tabernacle console protrudes from a niche lined with red and gold mosaic. The Tabernacle of Ludwig Gies displays on a golden background a dove as a symbol of the spirit. To the right and left of the niche hang two tapestries depicting angels. To the right of the altar is a life-size figure of St. Philip Neri.
The Schuke organ has 37 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The Liebfrauenkirche has had seven steel bells since 1957, as the bronze bells were melted down during World War II . In the baptistery going off from the north aisle there is a simple baptismal font. The altar in the weekday chapel is an oak table with a crucifix hanging over it. In the vestibule there is a Pietá from 1960. At the top of the staircase there is an ornate iron offering box.
literature
- Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 356 .
- Annette Menting : Church of Our Lady . In: Reclams City Guide Leipzig: Architecture and Art , Reclam, Philipp, jun. GmbH, Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-019259-7 , p. 170 ff (digitized version)
- Catholic Church of Our Lady Leizig-Lindenau . Parish flyer
- Church of Our Lady . In: Churches in and around Leipzig , Leipzig 2011, p. 52
Web links
- Liebfrauenkirche Lindenau. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
- Clemens Rosner: On the history of the community. In: Website of the parish of Philipp Neri. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
- Kath. Liebfrauenkirche Lindenau. In: architektur-blicklicht.de. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
- Liebfrauenkirche Leipzig Lindenau. In: Churches in Saxony. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of cultural monuments in Lindenau , ID number 09261514
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 44.1 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 22.2 ″ E