Maria Schutz (Freiburg)
Maria Schutz is a small church (sometimes called a chapel) in the east of the Wiehre district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau . It is used by various Christian Orthodox faith communities.
history
The listed building was built from 1885 to 1889 as a subsidiary church of St. Johann, mainly for the Catholic Christians of the neighboring workers' settlement "Knopfhäusle" and was originally called Maria-Hilf-Kirche. It was consecrated on October 27, 1889 by the then Freiburg Archbishop Christian Roos . Between 1921 and 1923 the interior was renovated and decorated with frescoes by the painter Hermann Anton Bantle from Munich. Because the church had become too small due to the increasing population in the east of the Wiehre, i.e. the Oberwiehre, a new, much larger Maria-Hilf-Kirche was built nearby from 1927 to 1929 . That is why the “old” Maria-Hilf-Kirche was rarely used.
In 1980 the church was handed over from the Catholic Church to the Orthodox Churches and is available for their services. Since then she has also been called Maria Schutz ( Romanian Acoperǎmântul Maicii Domnului ). It had previously been renovated at the expense of the Catholic and Protestant Churches and prepared for the liturgical needs of Orthodoxy. The first user was the Romanian Orthodox community in 1980, followed by the Serbian and Greek communities in 1981 . In 2003 the Russian Orthodox community was added.
description
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The building, built in the neo-Romanesque style, is a simple hall building with a floor plan in the form of a Latin cross , the side arms of the transept are only hinted at. The building is covered with a gable roof , a ridge turret with a pointed pyramid roof is above the entrance on the south side. The nave has four window axes and is separated from the chancel by an iconostasis . Three of the frescoes by the painter Bantle have been preserved: Above the iconostasis you can see the upper part of the apse painting of the White Madonna in an angelic wreath , on the left of the iconostasis there is a deposition from the cross and on the right a representation of the Holy Family .
To the west of the church building is a building of the parish Maria Hilf attached. a. the kindergarten was housed and, after moving out, also served as a dormitory for master class students. The parish intends to build apartments here.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 '15.38 " N , 7 ° 52' 0.04" E