Liebfrauenkirche (Dillweissenstein)
The Liebfrauenkirche in Dillweißstein , a district of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg , was built from 1908 to 1910 according to plans by Johannes Schroth . It stands as a cultural monument under monument protection .
history
The towns of Dillstein and Weißenstein, which were combined to form Dillweißstein in 1890 and incorporated into Pforzheim in 1913, have been Protestant since the Reformation . Catholics only settled back in large numbers in the course of industrialization and railway construction in the 19th century. The Catholics of Dillweißstein, Büchenbronn and Huchenfeld were initially looked after by the Pforzheimer municipality, which initially used the Barefoot Church and inaugurated the Church of St. Franziskus in 1891 . Since the parishes continued to grow due to the further increase in population and the way from the outlying places to the Franziskuskirche in the city center was a long way, a separate parish office was established for Dillweißstein, Büchelbronn and Huchenfeld in 1905.
The Boniface club presented a total of 8,400 ℳ to purchase a building site for a Catholic church in Dillweißenstein available. In 1906, the faithful in Dillweißstein were initially given a school hall as a room for church services. In 1908, Johannes Schroth drew up plans for the building of the church, which began in the same year with a loan from the Bonifatiusverein in the amount of 100,000 marks. The construction of the church, delayed by a long bricklayer's strike, lasted until 1910; the church was consecrated on October 23, 1910 by Thomas Nörber . Heinrich Bauer from Karlsruhe donated the high altar and the painting of the choir. The high altar was designed by Karl Eisele from Munich. As a carved altar it represented the five secrets of the painful rosary. The side Joseph's altar was adorned with a seated Joseph statue by the sculptor Leins from Horb, from whom the Antonius and Barbara statues on the side walls also came. An old baroque altar served as the second side altar, which the congregation had already received as a gift for the services in the old prayer room.
In 1912 the church received an organ from Stehle from Bittelbronn . In 1914, a series of the Stations of the Cross was consecrated by Karl Pfister from Ludwig Rieger's workshop . In 1915 the church received a tower clock, in 1924 the first heating.
The church was badly damaged in an air raid on November 21, 1944. All windows were destroyed and the roof was largely covered. The church was then poorly repaired, a comprehensive renovation took place from 1948 to 1951. The church was whitewashed uniformly.
Due to the tornado over Pforzheim in 1968, the church suffered serious damage again. During the renovation, the church was also redesigned to take account of the liturgy and worship reform of the Second Vatican Council, with much older equipment removed, including the Joseph altar and the communion bench. An overall artistic concept for a new furnishing with a new altar, ambo and baptismal font was suggested, but remained unrealized for several decades. The renovation in 1969/70 aimed particularly at objectifying the neo-Romanesque church interior. From 1989 to 1991 an extensive exterior renovation of the church took place.
The subsidiary communities in Büchenbronn and Huchenfeld received their own houses of worship in 1964 with the Holy Cross Church in Büchenbronn and in 1971 with the St. Ulrich community center in Huchenfeld.
description
The Liebfrauenkirche was built in the neo-Romanesque style, which the Archbishop's Building Office in Karlsruhe preferred around 1900. The single-nave church has a choir with a semicircular apse , to which a high bell tower with a sound arcade of Romanesque double windows and a pyramid roof is attached to the side .
Inside, too, the architecture is determined by neo-Romanesque arches, and the open roof structure is also characteristic of the spatial impression. The most important piece of equipment is the baroque St. Mary's altar to the right of the choir arch.
Bells
The church initially had four bells, of which the three largest were delivered to be melted down during the First World War . Two bells returned after the end of the war, but were melted down during World War II . What was left was the smallest bell with the nominal h 'from the original chime, cast in 1911 by the Grüninger bell foundry from Villingen. After the war, the tower received four new bells with the striking tones c sharp - e - f sharp - g sharp - in 1958, which were cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg. These are provided with a striking mechanism for the tower clock; the loudest bell strikes the hour, the following three bells strike the quarter-hour. The tower clock has dials on all four sides of the tower.
literature
- Parish of St. Franziskus Pforzheim (Ed.): 100 years of St. Francis 1891–1991. Catholic life in Pforzheim. Pforzheim 1991.
- Hermann Diruff and Christoph Timm: Art and cultural monuments in Pforzheim and in the Enzkreis . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-8062-0824-5 , pp. 101-103.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 32.2 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 22.6" E