Assumption of Mary (Rückers)

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Assumption of Mary, Rückers (Flieden)
Catholic parish church in Rückers.JPEG
View from the town center with the nave, stair tower and tower
place Rückers (Flieden)
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Fulda
Patronage Assumption Day
Construction year 1890/93
Construction type Hall church
function Parish church

Assumption of Mary is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church in Rückers , a district of the municipality of Flieden in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda .

The church building is at Schulstrasse 4.

The church from Schulstrasse (southeast)
War memorial for the fallen of the First and Second World Wars at the front of the choir
Church interior with a view of the altar
Interior of the church with a view of the organ

The parish is currently one of the four Catholic parishes the parish boundaries across in the municipalities Flieden Neuhof and Freiensteinau south of the county town of Fulda , in which the Catholics live in the majority. She belongs to the pastoral association Christ the Redeemer Flieden - Houseleek in the dean's office Neuhof-Großenlüder.

The pastoral network includes the parishes:

The church is under the patronage of the Assumption . The Catholic Church celebrates Remembrance Day on August 15.

History of the church

Rückers was first mentioned in 1160 .

During this time, the manor was at the Fulda Monastery , founded in 744 , which from 782 belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Mainz .

First chapel

As early as 1451, under Prince Abbot Reinhard von Weilnau, a chapel with the patronage of St. Mary is mentioned. The Roman cardinals Georgius , Astorgius , Prosper , Petrus and Cusa granted "the Marienkapelle in Rückers, a branch church of the parish Flieden in the Mainz diocese" in a still existing document rich indulgences . At this time it was a branch of Flieden. In 1470 a fellow in Rückers is mentioned, whose liege was the abbot of Fulda. The stipendary had to read a Holy Mass every Saturday and presumably also looked after the pilgrims with pastoral care.

Reformation time

Since 1523 there were first reformatory efforts in the Hochstift Fulda . Rückers felt this too. In the middle of the 16th century, the Protestant pastor of Neuhof appropriated the income from the Marienkapelle von Rückers and ensured the services of the former Catholic vicar and for 6 guilders a year he held a mass with a sermon on Saturdays and abolished the previous Marian celebrations.

As a result, the pilgrims stayed away in the religious turmoil of the time, and donations were reduced as a result.

Good pastoral care in such an extensive parish as Flieden was extremely difficult, especially since the Reformation was on the advance thanks to Protestant preachers. That is why the Fulda prince abbot Balthasar von Dermbach (1570–1606) set up further pastoral care offices to improve the care of the faithful and to show more presence. In 1571 he had called Jesuits to Fulda and commissioned them with the Counter Reformation in the monastery area. The foundation of the parish St. Michael Neuhof in 1582 was a consequence. In order to achieve a reorganization of the Rückers income under Prince Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach, the pastor of the newly founded parish in Neuhof, Johannes Haal, gave an office with a sermon every Saturday in Rückers.

Second chapel

Before All Saints' Day 1621 , the consecration of the "Neuw Kapbeln zu Neuwenhoff, then to Reickers ... by Weyhbischof Christipoh Weber " is reported. It was here at the Mainzer auxiliary bishop based in Erfurt Christoph Weber ( SJ ) of the first new church in Neuhof and then the new chapel in Rückers on October 22, 1621 consecrated and then in both places received Confirmation had before moving to Tuesday Erfurt traveled back. During this time, the first battles of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) raged far from the place of consecration.

In 1778, the Fulda court architect Carl Philipp Arnd made a drawing of the pilgrimage chapel, which was built in 1621 and had a floor plan of 21 m × 8 m. The square chancel was in the 19 m high tower covered with wooden shingles with a gable roof. The gable roof of the chapel, also covered with wooden shingles, carried a roof turret with a community bell . Arnd submitted proposals for expansion that were not implemented for unknown reasons. His renovation proposals would have resulted in a church in the shape of a cross .

In 1781, for the first time, a Franciscan priest named Cajetan from the Frauenberg monastery took care of the services on Sunday. In 1787 under the Fulda prince-bishop Heinrich VIII von Bibra , Rückers was assigned to the prince abbey of Fulda , Oberamt Neuhof. With the death of Father Amand Pflug in 1830 as the successor of Father Cajetan, the appointment of priests in Rückers ended due to the prevailing shortage of priests in the monastery. The services in Flieden had to be attended again. In 1831, however, the Franciscan Father Theocrat Jost, who was seconded to Rommerz , was appointed, who was released from his priestly duties until 1841 at the age of 74. From then on, the chaplain von Flieden gave Rückers pastoral care .

Elevation to the parish church

The high cross from 1900 with the grave of the first pastor Stephan Gnau (left)

In 1844 Rückers received a local chaplain and a chaplain. Bishop Christoph Florientius Kött carried out with a deed on November 14, 1872 the elevation of the local chaplaincy to the independent parish of the Assumption of Mary.

secularization

The bishopric or prince-bishopric of Fulda was secularized at the urging of Napoleon in 1803 by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . In 1812 it becomes a daughter church of Neuhof, to which Federwisch and Langenau also belonged.

Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in Rückers - Tafel.JPG

Church fire and new building

On May 12, 1890, a village fire, starting from a court fire , put the chapel built in 1621 and the adjacent courtyards and houses to an abrupt end. The Paderborn diocesan master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig was won over to build the new church . After only three years of construction, the new neo-Gothic parish church was consecrated again on September 12, 1893 by Bishop Joseph Weyland .

church

The Church of the Assumption of Mary can already be seen from afar with its stately church tower with sandstone square masonry and the simple neo-Gothic shapes with three window axes and stepped supporting pillars. It has two-lane pointed arched windows with a circular arch. The church has a length of 30 × 16.6 m from tower to choir .

The 37 m high tower is very massive, has three cornices , three-pass windows that are larger in the bell room on the upper floor under the spire . The bell chamber is crowned by a four-sided tower clock and has a pointed helmet with a wrought-iron tower cross on a pommel. On the left side facing the former cemetery is a semicircular stair tower .

Portals

The main portal is on the western face of the tower. Another portal is located on the south side under the first window axis with a small window. Both portals are adorned with a pear-shaped rod profile, double fillet and tracery panels in the arched field. There are empty platforms above both portals.

Artistic equipment

The high altar (1897), the side altars (1898) and the pulpit (1898) The designs for the altars and the pulpit were made by the building officer Güldenpfennig and were made by the St. Bernward Institute in Mainz. The Gothic image of Our Lady of grace, which can be proven from 1451, was taken over into the new church.

Bells

The parish bell hanging in the chapel built in 1621 in the roof turret and the twig chime hanging in the tower were destroyed in the church fire. The metal material they found was reused to re- cast the Joseph Bell . Due to the material composition, the bell founder even suspected the bell origin of the earlier bells in the 13th century. On September 17, 1893 two new bells were consecrated for the new church, "Joseph" with 375 pounds and "Maria" 1359 pounds.

In 1906 the "Herz-Jesu" bell from the Edelbrock brothers followed . In the summer of 1917, two bells of the peal for the manufacture of armaments were confiscated because of the First World War . The bells of the 19th century in particular had to be delivered to be melted down.

organ

The organ

The organ was installed by the Fulda organ builder Fritz Clewing on July 17, 1897.

Picture gallery

  • The altar of grace of the pilgrimage church

  • The scene-like fresco depiction of the granting of indulgence from 1451 above the altar of grace

  • The Joseph Altar

  • The font

literature

  • Festschrift 100 years of the pastor village Rückers (1872–1972).
  • Catholic parish of Rückers (ed.): Church leaders: Parish church of Mariä Himmelfahrt Rückers; on the occasion of 125 years of the Rückers parish 1872–1997. G. Vogel printing works, Neuhof.
  • Community council Flieden (ed.): Chronicle: 850 years of Rückers (1160–2010). Schöppner Druck, Flieden.

Web links

Commons : Mariä Himmelfahrt (Rückers)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 ′ 55.6 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 34.1"  E