St. Mary's Church (Coburg)
The St. Marien Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Bamberg . She is at the Spittelleite on Bertelsdorfer Höhe in Coburg .
history
On the site, which is owned by the Catholic Church since 1957, was made on 14 January 1962, Dean Gärtlein Ebenfeld the foundation laid. It was built according to plans by the Coburg architect Josef Rauschen. The first Holy Mass was celebrated on November 17, 1963, when the shell was finished but the interior was still missing. The consecration followed on June 14, 1964 by the Archbishop of Bamberg, Josef Schneider . On March 7, 1965, St. Marien became an independent parish. A Capuchin monastery was built next to the Marienkirche . The first pastor was the Capuchin Father Johannes Goth. In 1985 the sanctuary was renewed as part of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . In 1997 the Capuchin Order withdrew from Coburg.
architecture
The hall church without choirs or windows has a deep-drawn tent roof. It is illuminated by five triangular dormer windows and the large glass wall on the western gable side of the double entrance. The side-built, squat tower has a high pyramid roof and houses a baptistery on the ground floor.
Furnishing
The church is oriented to the southeast. Instead of an empty wooden cross hanging on the outside of the east gable, a glass mosaic cross by Hugo Hußla has been hanging inside the altar since 1977 . The purple color refers to the passion . The four embedded rock crystals are supposed to symbolize the resurrection of Christ and the message of the Gospels .
On the right-hand side there is a bronze statue of Mary raised on a column, holding the baby Jesus in her arms and showing it to the viewer; at her feet are six roses. The baptismal group and the holy water stoup are made by Anton Rückel (1919–1990). Since 2002 there have been 14 small bronze reliefs by the Italian artist Antonio Vedele (1930–1997) as a way of the cross .
The baptismal font , the tabernacle , the ambo and the altar are made of green Italian marble .
organ
The organ with its two-part prospectus was made in 1981 and comes from the Eisenbarth workshop in Passau . It has 22 stops on two manuals and a pedal with mechanical performance and electric stop action . She has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 3 free combinations , swell kick , tutti button and single tongue holder
Bells
The four bells were cast by the Perner company in Passau in 1963 and are named Christkönig , Maria , Joseph and Michael . They have the beat notes f 1 , a 1 , c 2 , d 2 .
gallery
Tabernacle with Eternal Light
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Church history St. Marien Coburg. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
- ^ Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV.48 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. CXI .
- ↑ Disposition of the organ on the website of the parish community, accessed on July 8, 2020.
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 54.2 ″ E