Church of Our Lady Ettlingen-West
The Liebfrauenkirche Ettlingen-West is a Catholic church in a district of the large district town of Ettlingen in the district of Karlsruhe , which is popularly known as "settlement" or "district Entensee".
The church was consecrated on June 11, 1965 by Archbishop Hermann Schäufele from Freiburg . Today the parish with the parishes Herz Jesu and St. Martin belongs to the pastoral care unit Ettlingen Stadt, which in turn belongs to the Dean's Office of Karlsruhe of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .
history
After the Second World War , the Ettlingen-West district, which had consisted of the workforce of the Lorenz Maschinenfabrik since the 1920s, expanded within a short period of time due to the influx of expellees from Bohemia , Hungary , Silesia and the Sudetenland . The number of Catholics grew; the first catholic services were held immediately after the end of the Second World War by the clergy of the Sacred Heart congregation in Ettlingen in the rooms of the Lorenz machine factory. In 1953 an emergency church with 230 seats was built (today's parish hall), where Holy Mass was held three times a day. Baptisms , weddings and ministries took place in the Herz-Jesu-Kirche, as did the celebration of First Communion and Confirmation . In 1960 the congregation was detached from the Herz-Jesu congregation and made a parish curate. The first pastor, Anton Küpferle, began building the parish work to plan a new church.
After extensive planning, the foundation stone was laid on May 12, 1963 by Dean Karl Walter from Waldbronn- Reichenbach. On October 25, 1964, Dean Ludwig Holtermann from the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Ettlingen carried out the benediction of the new church. The consecration of the church took place on 11th July 1965th
Building description
The entrance area and the choir of the octagonal church are built as exposed masonry made of uncut tuff from the area around the Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach in the Eifel . The church is 18 meters high at the ridge and slopes down to a height of 4 meters on the sides. It measures 28 meters in width. The ceiling is made entirely of wood and is held in place by large wooden trusses . Pastor Küpferle once called the church “ God's tent ” among people. Your sight is reminiscent of an upturned ship.
The church tower , about 20 meters away from the church, takes up the octagonal shape of the church as a free-standing campanile . At the time of construction it was connected to the church by a wall, which has since been removed. The tower has gold-plated dials on four sides . On each of its five sides it has two adjacent acoustic windows . On the back, sound slots go over the entire height of the tower. Around the flat roof of the tower there is also an approximately 70 centimeter high sound slot, which is only interrupted by masonry on the front and back. The tower is 38.5 meters high (up to the cross it is 42 meters!) And has a 6 meter high copper-faced cross on the front side. Inside it carries five bronze bells. In the past, the tower was faced with exposed brickwork that corresponded to the building material of the church itself. In the course of a renovation, the tuff stone facing was removed and replaced by a facing cast in concrete. The tower no longer forms an optical unit with the nave , but the original unit emerges from the shape.
The oblong sacristy with a flat roof is built on the left side of the church.
The church was built directly on the border between the residential area and the industrial area at a street crossing (today roundabout !).
Equipment and program
You enter the church through two simple portals at its front. They are separated from each other by the tapering chapel in the middle. The person entering has a spacious and simple room in front of him. The high wall that surrounds the chancel and the large wooden ceiling dominate. This dominance is put into perspective by the two glass walls of the church, which are 4 meters high and around 20 meters wide. With their wealth of colors and shapes, they loosen up the church interior and give it very special lighting conditions. The glass windows with a " praise of creation " were designed with the windows of the weekday chapel by the artist Franz Dewald from Karlsruhe- Grötzingen . On the north side the stained glass windows depict bacteria , microbes and microorganisms , on the south side depictions of animals and some scenes from the Old Testament , such as the three young men in the fiery furnace .
The altar of simple form made of basalt lava , raised on three steps, forms the center of the choir room. The benches are divided into four blocks. The two middle blocks are directly opposite the altar, the two outer blocks are a little oblique to the altar. The two outer blocks taper from the front to the back rows, while the two middle blocks taper towards the front. The main idea was the assembly of the congregation around the " table of the Lord ".
A bronze cross decorated with rock crystal and inlays hangs above the altar . Like the four altar candlesticks , the tabernacle and the candlestick for the Easter candle , it was created by the Karlsruhe artist Herbert Kemper . Similar furnishings can be found in the Heilig-Kreuz Church in Karlsruhe- Knielingen , in the chapel of the New Vizentius Hospital in Karlsruhe , and in the Church of St. Michael in Karlsruhe- Beiertheim .
The tabernacle is set into the wall to the right of the altar.
Behind the altar are the sediles , which the painter Dreher created from cast concrete . The ambo to the left of the altar is designed similarly.
The octagonal baptismal font made of basalt lava, which was once in the chapel at the back of the church, is now to the right of the altar.
In a niche in the right side of the choir wall stands a medieval Madonna from the Alpine region . The statue, decorated in sober colors, was restored in 2003 .
On the wall behind the altar there is a picture of the Last Supper , apparently designed by students. Eight of the Twelve Apostles ' candlesticks are also attached to the wall. The four other Apostolic chandeliers originally installed in the entrance area of the church had to give way to the construction of the glass wall by the weekday chapel.
The concrete west gallery carries an organ from the Vleughels organ manufacture , which was made remarkably safe against termites , as it was originally intended for Africa . It was assembled from parts of several organs and is of poor quality.
Weekday chapel
The weekday chapel under the organ gallery is separated from the church by a sliding glass wall . This glass wall shows a representation of the resurrection of Jesus. Originally this room was the baptistery and confessional chapel . The tapering wall is interrupted by four stained glass windows each showing the Stations of the Cross . In the room that is now used as the weekday chapel is an altar table and a wooden ambo. The seating is variable and for large church services the glass wall can be pushed aside to gain more seats.
Since the Evangelical Congregation has been a guest in the Liebfrauenkirche , the wooden cross from the former church in the Oberlinhaus has also been in the weekday chapel.
Bells
In the belfry of the tower at a height of about 24 meters, five bells hang vertically on the steel yoke in a steel bell cage . The largest hangs below and the next smaller above. The bells were cast on April 30, 1965 by the Bachert brothers ( Bachert bell foundry ) in Karlsruhe. The largest bell and the three little ones are in most common for bells Moll - rib cast, while the second largest bell in Major heard -Rippe.
The simple bells have only inscriptions and no bells . Only the largest one has a simple cross as an ornament.
|
No. |
Surname |
Ø (mm) |
Mass (kg) |
Percussive ( HT - 1 / 16 ) |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Christ | 1,627 | 2,470 | c 1 | + Christ yesterday and today + Christ beginning and end + |
| 2. | Maria | 1,395 | 1,702 | it 1 | + Mary + Queen of Peace pray for us * |
| 3. | John of Nepomuk | 1,095 | 924 | g 1 | + Saint John- of Nepomuk + Precious is the death of his saints + in the eyes of the Lord |
| 4th | Stephan of Hungary | 941 | 595 | b 1 | + Saint Stephen King of Hungary + Blessed is the servant whom the master finds when he comes awake + |
| 5. | Theresa of Lisieux | 841 | 410 | c 2 | + Saint Theresa + Patroness of the Christian Worker Youth + pray for us + |
The bells of the Liebfrauenkirche make an impressive ring . Every single bell has a very special character. The disposition of the bells is unique in the Archdiocese of Freiburg. A well-structured Läuteordnung highlights the musical variety of peal.
The bells of Liebfrauen were matched to the surrounding churches. The harmonious harmony with the bells of the Heart of Jesus (as ° -des'-es'-f'-as'-b'des'´), St. Martin in Ettlingen (a ° cis'e'fis'a'h ' ), as well as the Evangelical Paulus Church (f´as´b´des´´es´´) is therefore possible without restrictions.
Web links
- Information on the church website of the pastoral care unit Ettlingen Stadt
literature
- Festschrift for the consecration of the church on July 11, 1965.
- Chronicle for the 25th anniversary of the Liebfrauenkirche in 1990.
Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '52.7 " N , 8 ° 23' 4.3" E