St. Albertus (Giessen)

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St. Albertus, tower front
Interior with a view of the altar

St. Albertus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Gießen , which was built in 1957 and 1958.

history

After the main church St. Bonifatius , St. Albertus is the second oldest Catholic church in the city of Giessen. With the influx of Catholic believers from Silesia and the Sudetenland after the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Gießen grew so much that one parish in the city area was no longer sufficient.

In 1955, the Jesuits settled on Wilhelmstrasse. These broke away from the parish of Bonifatius with the St. Albertus parish curia founded on June 5, 1957. Construction of the church had already begun in February 1957, even if the official laying of the foundation stone did not take place until November 3rd of the same year. The church was consecrated on November 8th and 9th, 1958.

The day care center belonging to St. Albertus - formerly Kindergarten - St. Elisabeth was built in 1969 and moved into in 1970.

On February 1, 1974, was filial community Maria Peace in Heuchelheim built.

St. Albertus is home to two scout groups : since 1976 there has been a girl and a youth tribe of the European Catholic Scouting Association ; since 1986 the tribe of Franz von Assisi of the German Scouting Society St. Georg .

On September 9, 1990, the Jesuit branch in Gießen was dissolved, so that after more than 30 years it no longer provided the pastor of the parish of St. Albertus. On August 15, 1990, the community was transferred to a parish of the Mainz diocese .

The divine service of the Catholic University Community of Giessen took place from the winter semester 2010/2011 to Advent 2018 in St. Albertus. During the semester, it was usually 6:30 p.m. on Sundays.

architecture

St. Albertus is a single-nave hall church . The floor plan is based on the shape of a chalice . The church was designed by Karl Joseph Dicke, who also took over the construction management.

Because of its location on the northern ring road (north system) of the city, the church is not faces east , but aligned from south to north.

The church has a crypt below the chancel and a chapel on the ground floor of the western bell tower. The parish hall and the parish library are located under the nave.

Furnishing

St. Albertus has seating for 500 people in benches made of Brazilian pine .

The bronze statue of the parish priest Albertus Magnus by the artist Gudrun Müsse Florin was placed in the western niche behind the altar in 2002 . In the eastern niche there is a statue of the Virgin , consecrated in August 1961.

Behind the altar is the tabernacle column built in 1972 .

organ

The organ, inaugurated in 2006

At first, St. Albertus only had a harmonium . This was replaced by the electronic organ , consecrated in 1967 . In 2005 the used pipe organ of the dissolved Evangelical Heilandsgemeinde in Frankfurt-Bornheim was acquired. This was inaugurated on Palm Sunday in 2006. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus revised the instrument built in 1956 for the Giessen church. The two-manual organ has 25 stops with the following disposition :

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pointed flute 2 ′
Sifflet 1'
Zymbel III
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
Quintad 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Night horn covered 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Sesquialtera II
Mixture IV-V
Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Thought bass 8th'
Tube bare 4 ′
Night horn 2 ′
Mixture bass VI
Lovely trumpet 16 ′
Clarine 4 ′

Peal

The four of bronze existing bells of St. Albertus were ordained on June 10, 1966th

No.
  		Surname
  		Mass
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 Christ bell 1050 e ' " Lord Jesus Christ, come in glory "
2 Marienbell 850 fis' " Queen of Peace, protect the peoples "
3 Albertus Bell 500 a ' " St. Albertus, teach us the faith "
4th Canisius bell 420 H' " St. Canisius, help us to unity "

Pastor

Until shortly before the Gießen branch was closed, Jesuits provided the pastor of St. Albertus.

  • August 7, 1957 to August 31, 1961: Maximilian Müller SJ
  • September 1, 1961– February 9, 1965: Johannes Wagner SJ
  • February 10, 1965– September 30, 1967: Josef Michalke SJ
  • October 1, 1967– April 27, 1968: Siegfried Feige SJ
  • April 28, 1968 to August 31, 1978: Alfons Matzker SJ
  • September 1, 1978– June 30, 1989: Heinz Brokof SJ
  • July 2, 1989– August 15, 1990: Karl-Heinz Fischer SJ
  • Parish administrator : 15.08.1990–30.09.1990: Gerhard Choquet
  • October 1, 1990– October 17, 2000: Werner Ruhl
  • Parish administrator: October 18, 2000– February 28, 2001: Dr. Thomas Weiler
  • since March 1, 2001: Monsignor Hermann Heil

literature

  • Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Albertus (Ed.): Church in the world. Holzer printing company, Giessen 2008.

Web links

Commons : St. Albertus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Chronicle of St. Albertus Giessen . Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  2. ↑ Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Albertus (Ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 116.
  3. ^ Chronicle of Maria Frieden Heuchelheim . Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Albertus (Ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 117.
  5. ↑ a b c Catholic parish of St. Albertus (ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 159.
  6. ↑ University service: Bring & Share - service and buffet . Retrieved January 29, 2018.
  7. ^ University church service in St. Albertus . Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b Catholic parish of St. Albertus (ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 114.
  9. ^ Parish patron St. Albertus . Retrieved May 28, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b Catholic parish of St. Albertus (ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 113.
  11. ↑ Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Albertus (Ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 115.
  12. ↑ a b Catholic parish of St. Albertus (ed.): Church in the world. 2008, p. 120.
  13. ^ Organ on OrganIndex , accessed on July 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ Alexander Weiß: Pope Benedict XVI. honors seven priests of the diocese of Mainz . February 7, 2008. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 28, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoenstatt-lexikon.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 28.3 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 35.3"  E