Assumption of Mary (Kempten)
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is a neo-baroque sacred building with a semicircular western porch between two polygonal towers in Kottern , a district of Kempten (Allgäu) . The listed parish church was built between 1921 and 1922 according to a design by the Munich architect Erwin Müller. However, the plans date from before the First World War , but could not be implemented due to the depreciation of the reserves. In 1955, a square choir tower with a steel bell cage was built behind large glass panes. This was designed by Ernst Ravert.
history
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In 1906 the building site for the parish church was acquired. In 1914, the members of the church building association were presented with the building plans that had previously been examined by the Ministry of Culture. The work was put out to tender, the planning and financing was organized. However, the planned start of construction did not come about because of the First World War .
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on June 20, 1921, and the foundation stone was laid on September 11 of the same year . This contains a closed glass vase with a certificate, photographs of Pope Benedict XV. , Bishop Maximilian von Lingg , the church building association committee and factory director Alfred Kremser, coins and bills, postage stamps and ration cards.
On November 12, 1922, the church was consecrated. The building association did without a church tower in order to advance the equipment of the church. In 1925 a used organ was purchased. Three years later, the painter Anton Niedermaier made the ceiling painting in the choir. It shows the Holy Family with John the Baptist as a boy and his mother Elisabeth. In the background you can see the shed roof hall, which was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944, and the chimney of the spinning and weaving mill Kottern mit dem Grünten . In the spring of next year the painter completed the 230 m 2 ceiling painting in the nave. It deals with the Assumption of Mary .
In 1931 the stations of the cross were inaugurated, in 1935 the confessionals were set up. In autumn 1934, Josef Hengge and a sculptor named Diez designed the vestibule under the gallery into a war memorial. The soldiers depicted there correspond to the National Socialist racial ideology: blond, strong and brave.
In 1954 the first plans for a modern bell tower came up. The Kempten architect Ernst Ravet proposed a 52 meter high church tower with a four meter deep foundation. A sheet copper ball with a 6.6 meter crucifix is attached to the roof. In 1956, seven bronze bells were ordered and consecrated on March 31, 1957.
The furnishings of the church, which was mixed as a temporary solution from all over the Allgäu, were standardized between 1954 and 1970 with new pieces.
Peal
In the tower of the parish church hangs seven bells, one of the largest bells in the city of Kempten. Six bells from the Johann Hahn bell foundry in Landshut hang freely visible in a steel bell cage from 1956 . On March 31, the bells A ° -c'-d'-e'-g'-a'-c 2 were consecrated. Unfortunately, Glocke 2 was damaged a good 15 years later and had to be replaced. The new bell was cast in 1974 by the Kempten bell foundry E. Gebhard.
A special feature are the glass sound windows, which are automatically opened by an electric motor in good weather before the bell rings.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the Catholic Parish of the Assumption of Mary (accessed on December 29, 2011)
literature
- Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, pp. 400–402.
Web links
- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-63-000-297
Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 24.7 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 26.5 ″ E