Assumption of Mary (Buchbrunn)
The Church of the Assumption of Mary in Buchbrunn in Lower Franconia in the Kitzingen district is the parish's Catholic branch church. The church is on the corner of Hauptstrasse and Kirchgasse. Today it is part of the dean's office in Kitzingen . The Evangelical Lutheran parish church of Maria Magdalena also exists in Buchbrunn .
history
The history of the Church of the Assumption actually begins in the 19th century. The village of Buchbrunn was originally part of the Mainstockheim parish and introduced the Reformation after 1528 . In the 17th century only Protestants lived in the village, the Magdalenenkirche had been converted into a Lutheran place of worship. During the Thirty Years' War , Catholic priests held services in the church for several years.
Only in the 18th century were Catholics allowed to settle in Buchbrunn again. The small community was also looked after by the pastor in Kitzingen . The Magdalenenkirche was converted into a simultaneous church and the Catholics could celebrate their services every 14 days. The funds for this service came from the Kitzingen office. The Magdalenenkirche was de facto a branch of the parish church of St. Johannes in Kitzingen, but this relationship was not officially confirmed until 1803.
The Catholics had already started to set up a church foundation in the middle of the 18th century. The enmity between the denominations intensified in the period that followed. The General State Commissariat even had to intervene and agreed a comparison between the Buchbrunners of both denominations. On December 7, 1804, the Catholics dared to make a new attempt: They wanted to evacuate the Simultaneum if they could build their own house of worship.
All villagers, including the Lutheran ones, had to pay contributions for the new church. They also performed tension services in the construction of the Ascension Church. The community also benefited from secularization . The Ursuline monastery in Kitzingen was closed and some of the furnishings of the profaned Church of the Holy Sepulcher came to Buchbrunn. Already on December 8th, 1805 the church could be assigned by the Biebelried pastor Caspar Leymeister.
Between 1805 and 1809 the small community had its own priest. It was the former Cistercian monk Erwin Behr, from the dissolved Ebrach monastery . In 1825 the church property was extensively expanded, with the choir and sacristy being added. By the Nuremberg Franz Wiedl an interior renovation was carried out in the year 1906th Around 1900 the community consisted of only 100 members.
The church was extensively renovated in 1927. The interior was renovated and the building itself was refurbished. After the Second World War , the community grew rapidly. The outside of the church was renewed again in 1960. Further renovations were carried out in 1977 and 1984, with the choir also being redesigned in 1984. In 1989 the church was adapted to the liturgical innovations of the Second Vatican Council . Today the church is classified as an architectural monument .
architecture
The house of God is not easted , but was oriented to the north. The nave has two window axes and ends with a hipped roof . On the south side, the church received a portal from the dissolved Kitzingen monastery church. It shows the allegories of faith, love and hope, which are depicted as angel figures with different attributes. Originally a sandstone Madonna was placed in the center, today it has been replaced by a relief of the Coronation of Mary from the 20th century.
A small roof turret was built on the south side. Inside, the nave was built with a flat ceiling. The choir and the sacristy were added to the church in 1825. It ends with a mirror vault.
Furnishing
The high altar in the choir forms the center of the equipment. It was built in 1780 for the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Kitzingen and furnished with relics of Saints Clemens , Eugenius and Mansuetus . In the years 1835/1836 the Kitzingen artist Philipp Groß made some changes to the altar. The altar was made with fluted columns and has a two-story tabernacle with large putti.
The pulpit , also brought from Kitzingen, dates from around 1670 and has a figure of the Messiah on the sound cover , who is crushing a snake. The pulpit body is decorated with columns, blind niches and shell work. In 1674, a painting by the painter Oswald Onghers was created showing the handing over of the rosary to Dominic and Catherine of Siena . It originally hung in the Catholic Johanneskirche in Kitzingen.
At the beginning of the 20th century, three figures of the Franconian apostles Kilian , Kolonat and Totnan came to the church. Kilian shows the features of the Würzburg prince-bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn . They were installed below the gallery in 1907. The pews were created around 1700. They are decorated with acanthus and shell work. In the northern nave, the figure of a baroque Madonna is placed on the crescent moon.
In 1825 the church received two side altars, which were placed on the left and right of the choir. They came from the house chapel of the noble family zu Greiffenclau and were created around 1700. The altar leaves show the Jesuit saints Ignatius and Franz-Xaver , above you can see the coats of arms of the Würzburg patrician families Ganzhorn and Hollach. They were made on four pillars and end with a broken gable. Another painting of a female saint is from the 18th century.
The brass chandelier in the nave was built in the 19th century. The organ prospectus came from the Carmelite monastery in Würzburg to the Ascension Church . In 1989 the Retzbach company Krieger renewed the instrument with 9 registers . In the same year Ernst Singer from Würzburg created the ambo and the altar versus populum out of sandstone. In the roof turret of the church there are two bells that come from the Kitzingen monastery church.
literature
- Hans Bauer: District of Kitzingen. An art and culture guide . Market wide 1993.
- Thomas Wehner: Real Schematism of the Diocese of Würzburg. Kitzingen Dean's Office . Wuerzburg 1997.
- Wolfgang Weiß: 200 years of the Catholic branch church in Buchbrunn (near Kitzingen) . In: History in Buchbrunn (ed.): 200 years of the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Buchbrunn . Buchbrunn 2006. pp. 6-14.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Weiß, Wolfgang: 200 years of the Catholic branch church in Buchbrunn . P. 11.
- ^ Bauer, Hans: District of Kitzingen . P. 58.
- ↑ a b c Wehner, Thomas: Realschematismus der Diözese Würzburg . P. 105.
- ↑ Weiß, Wolfgang: 200 years of the Catholic branch church in Buchbrunn . P. 13.
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 31.6 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 3 ″ E