Maria Hilf (Koblenz)
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Maria Hilf was a Catholic parish and pilgrimage church in Koblenz . It was completed in 1953 in the Lützel district and was attached to the Maria Hilf chapel, which was built between 1905 and 1907. The chapel is a testimony to the Koblenz piety history, which shows the continuity of the veneration of the grace event. It stands under the patronage of St. Mary, mother of Jesus , in her function as an aid to Christians . In January 2017 the church was profaned and demolished in May of the same year, but the older chapel was preserved and is being restored.
history
chapel
The story of the pilgrimage in Lützel goes back to the story that a farmer from the Maifeld was attacked by robbers on his way home from Koblenz in Lützel and called Maria in his distress. As a thank you for escaping safely, he hung a picture of Mary on a tree around 1700. In the following years, the place was expanded to a wayside shrine by other visitors . Finally, a small chapel was built here, first mentioned in 1732. By order of the French authorities, Koblenz was under French occupation from 1794 to 1814, but this first chapel was demolished in 1808 in the course of secularization .
The pilgrimage continued, however, and so a new chapel was built in 1814 and a bell tower was added in 1845. In 1868 the administration of the chapel was transferred to the parish of St. Peter in Neuendorf . Around 1900 the plan was made to rebuild the chapel. From 1905 to 1907, according to plans by the Koblenz architect Jakob Beyerle, the Maria-Hilf-Chapel was built in neo-Gothic style and was consecrated on June 7, 1907. The old chapel from 1814 was retained and was used by the residents of the neighboring Josefinenstift (old people's home).
In 1926, the Order of the Brothers of Mercy from Maria Hilf acquired the old chapel, as its founder, Peter Friedhofen (1819–1860), often prayed here. The chapel was dismantled and moved to Trier . Peter Friedhofen has been buried in the relocated Maria Hilf chapel in Trier since 1928.
The chapel's small bell tower was renewed in 1991. He also received a new bell from a bell foundry in Brockscheid .
Pilgrimage church
In air raids in World War II, the original parish church was St. Anthony destroyed in Lützel. The services took place in Notkirchen after the war . As these became too small over time, the parish of St. Peter in Neuendorf left the Maria-Hilf chapel and the property belonging to it to the parish in Lützel. Although the Antonius Church could still be rebuilt, those responsible under Pastor Peter Plein decided to build a new one, as the old church was no longer sufficient for the community even before the war and an extension to either side was not possible. The foundation stone for a new parish church was laid on October 12, 1952, next to the Maria-Hilf chapel, which was integrated into the new church building. The plans for the new building came from the Koblenz architect HJ Heinrichs.
The new Maria-Hilf-Kirche was consecrated on October 4th, 1953. A parish center was built around the church until 1959. The interior of the church and the windows could not be completed until 1964. The parish initially kept the name St. Antonius until 1968–1969 a new parish church was built in Lützel.
Demolition of the pilgrimage church
In August 2014 it became known that the building of the pilgrimage church had been damaged for some time. The heating of the church was defective, so it could not be used in the winter months, the roof was ailing. The parish was not financially able to have the damage repaired. In addition, fewer and fewer believers used the pilgrimage church and the religious center of the Lützel district has long been in the parish church of St. Antonius. Demolition of the church from the 1950s was therefore considered. The old chapel, which is a listed building , was excluded from these considerations from the outset . According to the plans at the time (2015), a “multifunctional foyer” was to be built in front of the old chapel, and the parsonage and parish center were advertised for sale by the parish.
The parish church was profaned in January 2017 and demolished in mid-May. The neo-Gothic chapel, completed in 1907, was retained. A retirement home opened in 2019 was built on the former church property, the chapel was connected to this new building by an intermediate wing and has since been used by the residents of the retirement home.
Construction and equipment
chapel
The neo-Gothic Maria-Hilf-Chapel is a hall building with three bays with a lower choir made of one bay and a 5/8 end. From the outside, buttresses are attached to the nave and choir , and to the choir with pillars with gargoyles . The old entrance door to the chapel was moved to the south side when the pilgrimage church was built. It has a sandstone frame and door leaves with wrought iron hinges with tendrils.
Inside, the chapel has a ribbed vault and tracery windows with fish bubbles and stained glass from 1962 depicting the life of St. Mary. Since 1953, a late Gothic sculpture with a textile garment from the most recent times has stood in the choir as a miraculous image . The 15th century statue was acquired by the parish of Herschwiesen in the Hunsrück . The original miraculous image, a copy of the miraculous image of Mariahilf by Lucas Cranach the Elder , was returned to the parish of St. Peter in Neuendorf, which owned the Maria-Hilf chapel until the new church was built.
The hipped roof made of slate carries an octagonal roof turret with two Welschen hoods , which was renewed in 1991 . The bell in this tower shows the Madonna von Cranach on the front in memory of the old miraculous image and the inscription “Mary Help of Christians keep us peace”. On the back it says: " Eifeler bell foundry HA Mark-Brockscheid / Catholic parish Maria-Hilf Koblenz-Lützel 1991".
Pilgrimage church
The interior of the Maria-Hilf-Kirche was kept simple. 14 Stations of the Cross from the 1950s, carved in stone, were set into the east wall of the nave and a figure of the holy pilgrim Rochus (18th century) stood on a console on the pillar on the right at the transition to the choir . The altar rested on four pillars with figurative symbols of the four evangelists, behind which stood the tabernacle . A figure of St. Anthony of Padua was placed in the small aisle . On the opposite side at the end of the aisle, dean Peter Plein, the former pastor of Maria Hilf and builder of the parish church, was buried. Right of the gallery was in 1971 by the organ workshop Klais built organ . A second smaller organ stood to the left of the choir in the transition to the chapel; it was built in 1956 by the Späth brothers .
The northern end of the church was the baptistery, inaugurated on June 7, 1954, to which a few steps led down and which was closed off to the nave by parts of the communion bench from one of the Lützel emergency churches . The emergency churches were set up immediately after the war. The baptismal font was created in Maria Laach . The windows of the baptistery were the work of the glass painter Alois Stettner , whose most famous works include the windows in the Basilica of St. Castor , in the Sacred Heart Church and in the west choir of the Mainz Cathedral .
Miraculous image in the chapel
Interior of the chapel with the passage to the church
Small organ in the passage between church and chapel
Interior of the pilgrimage church with the organ
Baptistery in the pilgrimage church
Parish community
The parish church of St. Antonius was rebuilt in Lützel from 1968 to 1969. Since February 1, 2011, Maria Hilf and St. Antonius have formed a parish community together with St. Peter in Neuendorf and St. Martin in Kesselheim .
Monument protection
The Maria-Hilf-Chapel is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Lützel at Mayener-Straße 82 .
The Maria-Hilf Chapel has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 .
See also
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz. Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992-1993;
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era. 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X ;
- Volume 2: From the French city to the present. 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
- Birgit Johnen: Church guide for the parish church of the Maria-Hilf pilgrimage chapel , Koblenz 2009.
- Fritz Michel: The art monuments of the city of Koblenz. The profane monuments and the suburbs , Munich Berlin 1954, (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz, first volume).
- 75 years of the Catholic parishes of St. Antonius - Maria-Hilf Koblenz-Lützel 1911-1986. An overview of their history , ed. from the Catholic parishes of St. Antonius and Maria-Hilf, Koblenz 1986.
- 100 years of Catholic parish life in Koblenz-Lützel. Festschrift, ed. from the parish community Maria-Hilf and St. Antonius, Koblenz 2011.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Udo Liessem: Architecture of the 50s in Koblenz . Koblenz 1995, pp. 31-32.
- ↑ Maria Hilf: Will the church be torn down? in: Rhein-Zeitung , August 18, 2014
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/koblenz_artikel,-mariahilf-wird-abgerissen-bagger-zerlegen-alte-pfarrkirche-an-b-9-mit-video-_arid,1652215.html
- ↑ http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/lokales/koblenz_artikel,-endung-in-luetzel-pfarrkirche-maria-hilf-wird-entweiht-_arid,1596872.html
- ↑ Ulrike Weber (edit.): City of Koblenz. City districts (= General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate Directorate for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
- ^ Parish community Koblenz (Neuendorf) in: Diocese of Trier
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 10.7 ″ N , 7 ° 35 ′ 12 ″ E