Maria, Queen of Peace (Gersthofen)
Maria, Queen of Peace is a Catholic parish church in Gersthofen , a town in the Swabian district of Augsburg ( Bavaria ), which was built until 1968.
history
As part of the growth of Gersthofen, especially after the Second World War, a second parish church became necessary next to St. Jakobus major , which was settled as part of a cultural center in the south of the then market town together with schools, a music school, kindergarten and sports facilities. The church was consecrated on October 6, 1968 on Thanksgiving by Bishop Josef Stimpfle . In 2006 the parish was merged into a parish community with St. Jakobus major.
building
The church was built by the Eierle company according to a post-conciliar design by Hermann Öttl. The basic shape of the square was used in various ways, from the floor plan to the roof rotated by 45 °, the forecourt to the square campanile in the northwest corner of the site. The execution took place in partially painted exposed concrete . Reinhold Grübl designed the chancel and the inventory : consistent five-meter grid of the building and forecourt, opening of the church to the east (" ex oriente lux ") and the equivalent arrangement of the ambo and altar around the central axis of the room. He also created the Way of the Cross . The cross, which was added later, was made by Alfred Demharter from Gersthofen, while the organ front was designed by Hermann Öttl.
Peal
The church bell consists of seven bells that bear the names of martyrs of both denominations of the 20th century: Alfred Delp , Rupert Mayer , Dag Hammarskjöld , Geschwister Scholl , Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Martin Luther King , Folke Bernadotte .
literature
- Johannes Krauße (Ed.): Chronicle of the city of Gersthofen: 969–1989. Gersthofen 1989, DNB 891256881
Web links
- Parish community Gersthofen (accessed on May 12, 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ^ Walter Pötzl: Art History . In: Walter Pötzl (Ed.): The district of Augsburg . Volume 6/1997, Augsburg 1997, pp. 413-415.
Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 8.5 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 21.3 ″ E