Assumption of Mary (Teuschnitz)

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Northeast side of the church

The Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary is in the center of the Upper Franconian town of Teuschnitz in Bavaria .

history

The construction of the Assumption of Mary to replace the previous church in the city can be traced back to the initiative of Pastor Heinrich Geiger, who came to Teuschnitz on April 16, 1940. After the end of the Second World War , preparatory work for the new building began in 1945, although the building plans for the church had not yet been completed and no building permit had been obtained. The quarry stones came from the quarries in the vicinity of the city, the timber was felled in the parish forest. Due to the economic situation after the war, the procurement of further materials proved to be difficult and could only be done by barter.

In mid-June, the earthworks began on the planned site of the church. On July 18, Government Councilor Blattner visited the town's predecessor church and was impressed by it from a monument conservation point of view. Pastor Geiger therefore feared that the building permit for the new church would be granted and turned to the Ordinariate in Bamberg. There they took the side of the pastor, but ordered a temporary stop of the construction work. After government director Pfaller from Ansbach also spoke out in favor of preserving the old church during a visit to the old church in October 1947, statements and reports were obtained from Pastor Geiger and the responsible architect Holzbauer, which were supposed to prove the poor state of the old church.

The building permit for the new church was finally granted on June 10, 1948 by the district office in Kronach . At this point, work on the building's foundation was well advanced. The foundation stone was laid as part of a pontifical office by Auxiliary Bishop Arthur Landgraf on September 26, 1948. The church building was inaugurated on October 16, 1949 by Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb . The church bells were consecrated on May 23, 1953.

During renovation work in 1972, parts of the interior were redesigned and given new equipment.

architecture

The brickwork of the hall church , which is covered with black slate, consists of rubble stones , which are plastered white in the flat-roofed interior. On the west side rises above the entrance of a tent provided Tower of the church in the East includes the fed, polygonal closed choir , a little on the roof onion dome as a roof turret is seated, the building from. Below the choir is a lower church that was used by the Protestant Christians.

Furnishing

The choir stalls were originally created by Thomas Buscher for the Church of St. Paul in Munich . At the end of the 1950s, the two six-seat oak benches made according to plans by Georg von Hauberrisser were brought to Teuschnitz from the Paulskirche, which was badly damaged in World War II. This makes them Buscher's northernmost plant in Bavaria . In the left part of the neo-Gothic style the Old Testament prophets Abraham and Moses are depicted, in the right part the Bavarian diocese founders, as one of them, Paulus or Kilian, Buscher depicted himself.

The four-column high altar , two two-column side altars and the pulpit with sound cover date from the 18th century and were taken over from the previous church. Next to the high altar is an eternal light lamp that is held in silver and presumably dates from the 19th century . The 14 pictures of the Stations of the Cross were also created in the 19th century . There are also several figures of saints made of wood or clay, an octagonal baptismal font made of German red marble and a wooden cross with a life-size body in the church .

Since the church was renovated in 1972, two works by the Kronach sculptor Heinrich Schreiber have been added to the furnishings: a people's altar and an ambo .

Bells

In 1954 the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen cast  five bronze bells for the church in Teuschnitz with the following striking tones: d - e - f sharp - a - h. The bells have the following diameters: 1392 mm, 1240 mm, 1104 mm, 929 mm, 827 mm. The total weight of the bells is 4525 kg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Assumption of Mary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Paul Hader: Church building with obstacles . In: New Press (Coburg) . October 17, 2019, p. 13 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Heike Schülein: The choir stalls were intended for Munich. inFranken.de, December 19, 2011, accessed on July 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially p. 552 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 508 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 51 ″  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 53 ″  E