Liebfrauenkirche (Mengen)

The Liebfrauenkirche in abundance

The Liebfrauenkirche is the Roman Catholic parish church of the city of Mengen ( Baden-Württemberg ). It is consecrated to the Lady . Its characteristic onion dome , on which a lantern is placed, characterizes the townscape of the small town in Baden-Württemberg. The Liebfrauenkirche is a three-aisled , Gothic basilica with an almost square choir , the interior is baroque .

History and equipment

The church was built from 1343 on the site of a destroyed chapel . From 1450 it became the parish church of Mengen, before the Mengening family had belonged to the parish in Ennetach . In 1479, the Mengening citizen Konrat Bek donated the so-called Mount of Olives Chapel in the southeast corner of the Church of Our Lady, which is still a place of pilgrimage today.

In 1625 the original church tower, which was presumably Gothic, collapsed and smashed the choir. However, within three years the choir and tower were rebuilt in their current form.

The central and side aisles are separated by high, ogival arcades supported by six strong pairs of octagonal pillars . Probably since a fire around 1604, but maybe only since the renovation after the tower collapsed, the roof of the church has been pulled down so far that the nave disappears into the roof. The three-aisle structure is no longer recognizable from the outside.

In the years 1991 to 1993 the interior of the church was completely renovated and modernized.

View of the organ

The organ was installed in 1975 by the Späth (Ennetach) organ builder and in the choir room; the prospectus was designed by organologist Walter Supper in such a way that the windows were largely kept clear. In 1995 the instrument was reorganized by the organ builder Harald Rapp and placed in a new case on the rear gallery; about 30% of the pipe material was renewed. In 2012, the organ building company Freiburger Orgelbau cleaned and re-voiced the instrument and added the register principal bass 16 '. Today it has 26 stops on two manual works and a pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Bourdon	16 '
2.	Principal	08th'
3.	Reed flute	08th'
4th	Viola di gamba 00	08th'
5.	octave	04 '
6th	Pointed flute	04 '
7th	Fifth	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
8th.	Super octave	02 '
9.	Mixture IV	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
10.	Trumpet	08th'

II Swell C – g ³
11.	Metal covered 00	08th'
12.	Willow pipe	08th'
13.	Praestant	04 '
14th	Coupling flute	04 '
15th	Sesquialter II	02 ² ⁄ ₃  '
16.	Forest flute	02 '
17th	Sif flute	01 ¹ ⁄ ₃  '
18th	Scharff IV-V	01'
19th	Hautbois	08th'
	Tremulant

Pedals C – f ¹
20th	Principal bass 00	16 '
21st	Sub bass	16 '
22nd	Principal bass	08th'
23.	Gemshorn	08th'
24.	Chorale bass	04 '
25th	Flute bass	02 '
26th	trombone	16 '

Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P.

Mount of Olives Chapel

The Mount of Olives Chapel is located in the southeast corner of the church as the front end of the southern nave. In the chapel, life-size clay figures depict the suffering of Christ on the Mount of Olives . It has been a place of pilgrimage since May 18, 1632. At that time, during the Thirty Years' War, the Swedish army was standing at Mengen's gates, after the Metropolitan City Guard had shot several Swedish soldiers from their horses the day before. The Massener did not know what to do, so around 300 clergymen, old people and women began to pray at the Mount of Olives Chapel. According to tradition, the figure of the Virgin in the chapel is said to have changed the color of its face. Almost at the same time the Swedes withdrew because the Austrian army was approaching from Überlingen . So the city was saved and the parish celebrates the May Festival on the first Sunday after May 18th in memory of this episode.

Parish

The parish together with the parishes from Scheer , Heudorf , Blochingen and Ennetach form the pastoral care unit Effata. The Liebfrauengemeinde in Mengen maintains the St. Maria kindergarten, a new parish hall built in 2010 right next to the church, a one-world shop, the Martinslädle and various groups of toddlers.

literature

Anton Stand: The churches in today's city of Mengen. In: Stadt Mengen (Ed.): Mengen - memories in pictures. Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-577-2 , pp. 12-13.
Manfred Hermann: The district in its buildings and works of art. In: Otto Kasper among others: The district of Sigmaringen. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-1066-4 , p. 119 ff.

Individual evidence

↑ Elke Haile: To Our Dear Lady. Retrieved on February 9, 2015 (description of the church on the pages of the Liebfrauengemeinde).
↑ Information about the organ (as of July 25, 2018)
↑ Anton Stehle: ... a historical tour through Mengen, which is based on 23 stops and can be shortened to 8 particularly significant stops ... In: Geschichtsverein und Stadt Mengen (Ed.): Mengen - a walk through the old town. City guide of the city of Mengen, pp. 21–22.

Web links

Commons : Liebfrauenkirche - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

48.049377 9.327623Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 58 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 39 ″ E

[1] Elke Haile: To Our Dear Lady. Retrieved on February 9, 2015 (description of the church on the pages of the Liebfrauengemeinde).

[2] Information about the organ (as of July 25, 2018)

[3] Anton Stehle: ... a historical tour through Mengen, which is based on 23 stops and can be shortened to 8 particularly significant stops ... In: Geschichtsverein und Stadt Mengen (Ed.): Mengen - a walk through the old town. City guide of the city of Mengen, pp. 21–22.