Marienkirche (Treuchtlingen)
The Maria-Himmelfahrt-Kirche (also Marienkirche or Juradom ) is the Catholic parish church in the town of Treuchtlingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .
Building history
After the baroque Lambertus Chapel in the growing Treuchtlingen railway junction had become too small for the number of Catholics, which had grown to 1,000, the need to build a new Catholic parish church became apparent even before the First World War .
However, war and inflation drained the parish's savings. For the planned extension of the neighboring track system, the Reichsbahn bought the property on which a fourteen emergency helper chapel was located. For this, the parish received 65,000 Reichsmarks and acquired the so-called "Eselswiese" - a swampy piece of land on which the Marienkirche was to be built.
The construction of the church and the attached rectory followed the plans of the architect Georg Buchner , professor of architecture from Munich. Due to the swampy consistency of the property, the church rests on a grate made of oak posts.
The earthworks began in May 1933, the consecration took place on November 11, 1934 by the Bishop of Eichstätt Konrad Graf von Preysing .
architecture
The external appearance with the massive walls and narrow high windows is reminiscent of a "stronghold". The church was built using only local materials, especially Jurassic marble . This can be seen on the outside of the quarry stone masonry , which does not allow points and corners, on the massive west tower and on the obtuse-angled roofing. The church was originally covered with a layer of Solnhofen slate almost a meter thick. When a new roofing was carried out in 1980, it became apparent that the original material could no longer be used and the decision was made to use gray-colored roof panels.
The massive western front with the dominant tower is signed by a huge wooden cross. The original cross from 1934 was removed in the early 1990s and replaced with a new one. The old cross was peppered with fragments of bombs from the great bombing raid of February 23, 1945, in which the Treuchtlinger train station as the primary target and large parts of the city were reduced to rubble.
Above the side entrances to the church there are two reliefs depicting the birth of Christ and the Annunciation. The steep east wall above the altar is decorated with a crucifixion group in sgraffitoplasty , which was designed by Prof. Gruber from Munich.
Interior
The interior of the Marienkirche is a single-nave hall structure 40 meters long, 17.5 meters wide and approx. 22 meters high. The single-nave choir with 3 window axes connects to the east. Because of its considerable size and acoustics, the church is also known as the "Juradom".
Treuchtlingen marble and wood were also predominantly used in the interior. The large high altar, on which the tabernacle stands, consists of a single solid marble slab weighing more than 2500 kilograms.
The five late Gothic figures from the left side altar are likely to come from the demolished fourteen-helper chapel. They are attributed to Hans Pildschnitzer, the master of the Eichstätter cathedral altar (around 1510). These are the Saints Sebastian, Martin, Willibald and Christophorus. Among the saints from the main altar of the Fourteen Holy Helpers Chapel is the Predella , a panel painting with the Fourteen Holy Helpers . This was donated in 1614 by Gottfried Heinrich von Pappenheim.
The organ from Orgelbau Kreienbrink from Osnabrück was inaugurated on November 24, 1968. The consecration organist was Franz Lehrndorfer , the deceased long-time organist of the Munich Liebfrauendome. A special feature of this instrument is the intonation on open foot with low wind pressure (the so-called nuclear column intonation ).
literature
- Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 34.5 " N , 10 ° 54 ′ 32.3" E