Marienkirche (Dühren)

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Marienkirche in Dühren

The Roman Catholic St. Mary's Church in Dühren , a district of the large district town of Sinsheim in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg , was built in 1972. The church goes back to a chapel consecrated in 1853 and still has bells from the previous building.

history

The numerically few Catholics in Dühren had a prayer room in the house of Lorenz Denk around the middle of the 19th century. This building burned down in 1852, so that a Catholic chapel was built and consecrated the following year. A larger Catholic parish was formed in Dühren after the Second World War, but the construction of the current church was delayed for a long time and did not take place until 1972. The bells from the previous building were taken over into the church.

Bells

The old Catholic chapel received its first bell in 1855 thanks to a donation from the Spieler brothers. In 1880 another bell was cast at the Bachert bell foundry in Dallau. The bell from 1880 had to be delivered for armaments purposes during the First World War . In 1925, a donation from Karl Wilhelm Bauer brought a second bell into the church, which, however, had to be cast in 1937. During the Second World War , the old bell from 1855 had to be delivered, whereupon a new bell was cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg on a donation from F. Denk in 1955 .

The bell of the church today consists of the two bells from 1937 and 1955. The bell from 1937 was (um) cast by Bachert in Karlsruhe, has a diameter of 42.5 cm and bears the inscription AVE MARIA. Donated by Karl Wilhelm Bauer. 1937 PAST BROTHERS BACHERT KARLSRUHE A. RH. and symbolically shows the Virgin Mary with the child. The bell from 1955 has a diameter of 56 cm and bears the inscription FAC NOS INNOCUAM DECUPRERE VITAM. GIVEN BY F. DENK and is provided with symbolic representations of Joseph and Jesus.

literature

  • Norbert Jung: ihesvs maria + ano + m + cccc + xli - A contribution to the history of bells in the city of Sinsheim , Heilbronn 2009, p. 13/14.

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 22.5 ″  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 58.6 ″  E