Mater Dolorosa (floodplain)
The Catholic Church Mater Dolorosa in Aue is a neo-Gothic building complex consisting of a church and a parsonage in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis, built between 1913 and 1915 .
history
In the 19th century, industrialization in the Ore Mountains led to the immigration of workers from Catholic Bohemia , Silesia and Italy . For these people, the Zwickau parish office set up the Aue branch on July 1, 1907 , and chaplain Johann Wenke was appointed as branch office. The catchment area of this Catholic pastoral care district with around 4050 parishioners extended to the places Aue, Eibenstock , Hartenstein , Johanngeorgenstadt , Zwickau and Zwönitz . Since the Reformation there has been no Catholic church in the Evangelical Lutheran area, which is why there was initially a rented gym at the Auer "Schützenhaus" on the Heidelsberg and a small house chapel in the priest's apartment (first Goethestraße) for the services that took place from July 7, 1907 , later Bahnhofstrasse ) were used.
Towards the end of the 19th century, the community planned to build its own church, for which donations were collected from the chaplain. He spoke to local manufacturers and sent out begging letters. The donors received a souvenir sheet with a picture of the planned church ensemble and the text
“ Catholic Church in Aue (Erzgebirge) ( under construction );
Expositus Joh. Wenke thanks for the kind donation with a warm "God bless you". "
The Auer textile manufacturer Alwin Bauer provided a 3,150 m² site on Schneeberger Strasse as a construction site, which he assigned to the community in 1910. In 1912, the widow Veronika Fischer, who was also a patron in the construction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Dresden , donated 60,000 Reichsmarks for the construction costs. In preparation for construction, the sloping terrain had to be straightened and strengthened, which began on October 20, 1913. The laying of the foundation stone took place on April 14, 1914. Despite the withdrawal of numerous construction workers for military service in the First World War and scarce building materials, the building ensemble consisting of church and rectory was completed in 1915. Bishop Franz Löbmann consecrated it in the name of Mater Dolorosa on September 26, 1915 .
In 1923 the buildings received electric light.
Architecture and architect
The building complex made of yellow bricks without plastering and covered with slate consists of a three-part floor plan. The church vault facing the street with three symmetrically arranged transepts as the main building faces south-east-north-west ( apse on the north-west side). Above the main entrance are sculptures of Saints Barbara , Hedwig and Nikolaus , which were made in 1999, financed by private donations. The church tower, about 20 meters high, facing away from the street, forms the second part of the ensemble. He received 1,928 bronze bells melted down in the 1940s for military purposes and in 1956 replaced by three new bells (mood gis , ais , cis ), and in 1978 an angular, copper-plated spire. On the slope side, the sacristy and rectory are the third part of the building group. Its gable, placed at a corner with the church entrance, forms a small, quiet church forecourt.
The architect of the church is Maximilian Mayer from Plauen in Vogtland.
In 1925, according to the city's address book, Mayer lived at Bärenstraße 52. His main creative period was 1900-1930. In the architecture of the Vogtland, he influenced the transition from the early days to the modern age. Mayer designed numerous Catholic churches and communal buildings; so among others the Marienschule and the Arnold Villa (1908-10) in Greiz, the churches of St. Elisabeth (1912-13) in Bad Elster and the Holy Cross (1914-16) in Auerbach. Mayer erected one of his last buildings with St. Bonifatius (1926-29) in Werdau as a symbiosis of church, tower and rectory in the reform style.
inner space
In 1927 the church received its first organ from the Jehmlich company , which was moved here from another church. In 1952 a new organ from the same manufacturer was installed, which was overhauled in 2004. In the sacristy there is a tabernacle and a seven-armed candlestick.
Since the consecration of the church, the interior has been redesigned several times, simplified in 1973 according to recommendations of the Catholic Church. In 1987 and 2004 the company horst architekten redesigned the sanctuary and installed new interior lighting. A high altar in the pentagonal choir apse, which was dismantled during the renovation of the building in 1973, was one of the first features of the church . In its place there is an artistically designed altar protruding into the main nave. It is called Arche - the altar island and consists of a combination of light natural wood with a slate plate. The new altar was consecrated on May 1, 2005. Two small, high-lying colorful church windows are built into the chancel.
In the parish hall there is an artistic picture cycle made in 1988 depicting the Way of the Cross .
Development of the parish
During the First World War, the parish lost numerous members. Many families became impoverished. For the pastor, this meant more service to those seeking consolation. From 1922/23 a newly founded church council supported his work. He raised Aue to its own parish when the Schwarzenberg area was separated from Johanngeorgenstadt. In 1932 the parish received a pastoral assistant (from 1941 to 1945 a nun) and in 1939 the Eibenstock division was spun off.
The Catholic community associations were dissolved under the Nazi regime. Between 1943 and 1945, the community expanded by temporarily accommodating Rhinelanders who had been evacuated from bombed cities in western Germany. In addition, many foreign forced laborers attended church services. The parish experienced a large influx of thousands of people displaced from their homes from the former eastern German territories and the workers recruited from all over Germany for uranium ore mining from 1946.
Between 1955 and 1970 there were several administrative changes such as the separation of the pastoral care areas Schneeberg / Schlema / Lindenau and Zwönitz / Lößnitz / Affalter and the establishment of the deanery Aue with the parishes of Aue, Schneeberg, Schwarzenberg, Zwönitz, Stollberg , Oelsnitz and the vicarages Eibenstock and Johanngeorgenstadt. In 1970 the first ecumenical service was held in the Protestant St. Nicolai Church , which has been held twice a year since then. Particularly noteworthy is the commitment of the Catholic Church. During the mass protests in autumn 1989, "peace services" took place in the church.
The parish of Aue, which was last restructured in 2005 and has around 1,500 Catholics in its catchment area ( as of 2006 ), consists of the church in Aue, the subsidiary churches of St. Pius X in Schneeberg, the St. Joseph chapel in Eibenstock, the Precious Blood chapel in Schönheide and the Catholic Church St. Johannis in Lößnitz and administratively belongs to the Deanery Zwickau.
source
- Information sheet 1915-2005. 90 years of the Catholic parish church 'Mater Dolorosa' in Aue / Sa.
Web links
- Website on Auer congregations / ecumenism; Roman Catholic Call the church
- Website of the Church of Mater Dolorosa at www.katholische-kirche-aue
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literature: Bücholdt, U., Architekturregister , Bochum 2003 ff.
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: photo from the sacristy ); accessed in 2008.
- ^ Homepage of the company horst architects from Dresden ; Retrieved November 4, 2008.
- ↑ Mater Dolorosa Catholic parish church. Reconstruction of a church interior in Aue . In: 'Bauzentrum' magazine No. 9 / 10-2006.
- ↑ Information about the consecration of the altar in Aue ( memento of February 7, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ); Retrieved November 4, 2008.
- ↑ Call for ecumenical worship on July 18, 2008 ( memento of February 7, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ); Retrieved November 4, 2008
- ↑ Deanery Zwickau in the "GenWiki"
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 30 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 27 ″ E