Assumption of Mary (forest window)

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Assumption of Mary .

Assumption of Mary in Waldfenster is a baroque Roman Catholic parish church and was built in 1804 by the architect Fischer from Würzburg in collaboration with the master builder Brüder from Bad Königshofen. It stands on the foundations of the first stone church in town.

The church is one of the architectural monuments in Burkardroth and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-117-108 .

history

The very first church in the village is said to have been a wooden chapel that is said to have stood at the historic building yard. In 1741, the first stone church, the predecessor of today's Church of the Assumption , was built.

The high altar of the stone church from 1741, which is still preserved today, was created in 1745/48, possibly by Johann Joseph Keßler from Königshofen . The main altar features a large painting depicting the Assumption of Mary . Next to this painting are the figures of saints St. Wendelin and St. Sebastian as sculptures from the 18th century. The Trinity , the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are depicted above the painting . On the side wall of the church there is a side altar that dates from the middle of the 18th century. This shows the crucifixion group with Jesus, Maria, Johannes and is listed in the directory of art monuments in Bavaria. There is also a pulpit, a baptismal font and various liturgical utensils.

The first structural defects in the church building soon became apparent because the two architects had different approaches. As the deficiencies became more and more obvious and a collapse threatened, it was decided in 1802 to demolish it and build a new church, today's Church of the Assumption , on the slope above the community gift shop. The tower and the western front of this previous church merged into today's Church of the Assumption when it was built in 1804 by the Würzburg architects Fischer and the master builder Michael Brüder from Königshofen. In this context, today's choir and the current nave of the church were built in 1804 . Under local pastor Kilian Zier, a separate sacristy was built next to the choir in 1936 ; He also had the two altars and the pulpit renovated in 1938 .

In the 1960s, next to the Assumption Church, the St. Pius Church, designed according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council , was built . The St. Pius Church is connected to the Assumption Church via the chancel. When the condition of St. Pius Church required renovation, which would have been more expensive than demolition, it was decided to build a new building on the site of St. Pius Church in 2010 .

In the Wendelinus Chapel by Waldfenster, built in 1965, there is now a Pietà that originally came from the Church of the Assumption of Mary . In August 2018, the previous St. Pius Church was demolished; by 2020 it is to be attached to the Assumption Church.

Bells

The bells that are now in the bell tower were financed in 1955 by donations from the faithful and cast by the Schilling company from Heidelberg. Before that, the three bells purchased in 1927 were dismantled and melted down on February 6, 1942 during the Second World War . The largest bell at the time was delivered to the church during the First World War . Due to the artistic and antiquity value of the second bell from the 14th century, it was left in the tower together with a small 20 kg bell. After the new bells were purchased in 1927, the two remaining bells were no longer used. The smaller of the two bells was placed in the parish church and delivered and melted down in 1942. The 14th century bell was sold to the Katzenbach parish. A previous proposal by the pastor at the time to incorporate the bell into the ringing of the branch church in Oehrberg was not implemented. The residents there refused it because they wanted a new bell.

Today's bell is made up of the following dimensions:

No. Surname Chime Weight Diameter inscription Year of casting and bell founder
1 Marienbell G' 624 kg 98 cm Hail Queen (with picture of Mary) 1955 FW Schilling
2 Death knell b ′ 402 kg 82 cm Lord give eternal rest to our dead (with cross symbol) 1955 FW Schilling
3 Joseph Bell c '′ 274 kg 76 cm St. Joseph bless our families 1955 FW Schilling
4th Wendelinus bell d '′ 225 kg 70 cm St. Wendelin protect the village and cattle 1955 FW Schilling

organ

After the church was built in 1804, there was no money for a new organ. Therefore, a used one from the Kreuzberg monastery was purchased for little money and installed in the back of the church, on the gallery. This continued to perform its service during services for over 100 years. Only in 1939 did the pastor Zier arrange for a new, electrically operated organ to be purchased, which made it unnecessary to step on the bellows. The new organ was inaugurated on August 15, 1939, but was dismantled in 1966 after the "new church" was added. There is currently no organ in the church. The purchase of a new electric organ is planned as part of the new church building.

The organist service was taken over by the local teachers until the Second World War. In order not to have to do without the accompaniment of the organ in the service, Herrmann Wehner acquired the basic knowledge of organ playing from Waldfenster and had his sons given professional organ lessons. Even today, this service is largely taken over by citizens of the village of Waldfenster.

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Gisela Schmitt: village chronicle forest window. Self-published, Waldfenster 1992.
  • Georg Dehio , Tilmann Breuer: Handbook of German art monuments . Bavaria I: Franconia - The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , p. 1080.
  • Wolf-Dieter Raftopoulo: Rhön and Grabfeld culture guides. A complete documentation of the old cultural landscapes in terms of art and cultural history. RMd Verlag, Gerbrunn 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818603-7-5 , p. 82.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kathrin Kupka-Hahn: The Wendelinus Chapel in the forest window. In: Burkardroth.de. Retrieved March 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Sigismund von Dobschütz: Construction work: The church in the forest window has now been desecrated. In: inFranken.de. July 22, 2018. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 37 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 27"  E